Got debt?  It’s not your fault.

Got bills?  It’s not your fault.

Don’t want to work?  Don’t worry; it’s not your fault.

Fat but still hungry?  Don’t worry; it’s not your fault.  We can help you!

Feeling sick?  Need a doctor?  We can help!  (You just might have to wait a bit and travel a ways..)

Can’t afford to go to college and drop out or get a worthless degree provided by professors who used their own worthless education and degrees to never face the real world but chose instead to train young minds to follow the same worthless path?  Don’t worry!  Don’t worry!  We can for sure help you with something called a loan that you don’t even have to pay back right away- you can just owe us for a long time.  A very long time.  But don’t worry.  Really.

It’s not your fault.  None of this is your fault.  You can definitely have your cake and eat it too!  But you would have had to actually go to college and gotten a fine liberal arts degree to understand that historical reference.  Don’t worry though if you don’t get it.  That’s not your fault either.

From the moment you were born and we began to take care of you there was really never any responsibility required.  Just your loyalty, boy.  Or girl.  Nothing that you ever decided was really ever your fault because none of it was ever really your choice.  Did you really ever think that it was?  Well, that mistake is not your fault either.

Sounds like being at fault is not your fault.  And I know it’s not mine either so there is such a thing as no-fault.  But not really anything like a free lunch.  Not really.

We take.  We take from thems that got it because thems don’t deserve it.  Don’t care nothin bout anythin like workin hard and sayin you earned it.  You didn’t.  But now we wants it.  And there ain’t nothin you can do about it.

Earning ain’t owning.  Owning is owning.

So keep on owin’.  Owe us for everything you need to live and, well, I guess that means we, like, have  control.  Totally.

Total control.  Kind of sounds like owning- y’know, kinda like slavery or at least a very strong serf system.  Serfs?  Oh yeah, I forgot.  Just go look it up.

So we are taking from those who have it but didn’t really earn it.  We then give some of that unearned stuff to others who also didn’t earn it.  We do manage to keep a little for ourselves because, well, we like to say we earned it but we really just know that we deserve it.  You agree right?  Who else would have taken the trouble to go get and then take something that isn’t theirs and give it out for free to others to whom it don’t belong?  We definitely deserve it.  Oh yeah.

And it isn’t completely free but the price is pretty small.  Just take it and don’t complain.  And give us your vote when we need it.  Just need to mention that.

While we still need it that is.

Someday soon we won’t because, well, the elections will be slightly changed to be more like selections.    Don’t worry though; it’ll still all be okay.  We’re really good at selecting.  You’ll still get your stuff.  We’ll take care of you even though we really won’t need you much anymore.

Until then though you just keep owin’ us ok?  Simple enough?

Let me explain it a bit better.  We’ll take from those who have, while they have it, and give to those who don’t, and make sure they need it and want it more and more and more.  Supply and demand.  We’ll raise the demand.  And as the supply dwindles, as it surely must and surely will, the demand will go up and the value of the exchange will go up and up and up.  You’ll owe and we’ll own.  Got it now?  It’s a simple trade system.  And we set the rules; how cool is that!

Sooner or later the supply will run out and then we will get rid of that side of our initial economic equation.  And while the demand side rises we will have less and less to give.  Those people, while becoming less and less important to us, may become upset at all that owin’ to those of us who own (us being then really no different from that other group who had what we took away- but none of you simpletons saw that sleight of hand did you now?) and you might try to rise up.

But you’ll have no guns.  And you’ll have no money.  And the only things you have will be what we have given to you and, well, we will just have to take that away.

And when you come after it all with just your bare hands?  Let me think.

Okay.  Let’s look at history again.  Communism seems to work really well in that particular situation so maybe we’ll try that again.

Ain’t tough to see it folks.  Can’t happen here though right?

Sure.  Whatever…