The Inner Party applauds the wave of foreclosures washing over the American dream.
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A tidal wave of mortgage foreclosures has begun to descend upon the American public.
The Inner Party applauds these mortgage foreclosures, as they bring the mighty rod of economic oppression to those who struggle vainly for a piece of the American pie.
After a brief period of tasting the American dream of home ownership, countless former homeowners are being kicked out on the street where they belong, at first to live in their cars, then to leech off their relatives, and finally, when all their dignity has been stripped, and their hopes and dreams smashed in the street like a cheap dimestore toy, they will huddle in homeless shelters, penniless, filthy, broken of spirit, willing to do anything for their next meal.
The Inner Party has very carefully engineered this cycle of privilege followed by deprivation, in order to preserve the illusion that the American Dream is available to all: the carrot of home ownership, dangling like the fruit of Tantalus, seemingly within reach, only to be pulled away just in the nick of time.
Creature comforts and leisure activities must be restricted to the aristocracy. Quality of life is a zero-sum game. The illusion of hope and opportunity must be presented to the lower classes, that they may continue struggling to provide the opulent lifestyles of the Inner Party.
For a stable society and to stave off civil unrest, home ownership must be attainable for the middle class, but it must be onerous and barely affordable, forcing the average middle class family into an ever-mounting spiral of consumer debt so crushing, that even the middle class dare not take time off from work, resolving time after time that “next year we’ll take a nice vacation…this year we just can’t afford it” until suddenly they’re elderly, and too weary to see the Eiffel Tower or the Great Wall of China.
Don’t worry granma, we’ll send you a postcard from our villa in Tuscany. It’s beautiful this time of year.
For the lower classes, the subprime borrowers, home ownership must appear to be attainable, but only as an illusion to strengthen the landlord class, which must remain strong and oppressive.
The working classes are most effective when working long hours in our factories, then going to their 2nd and 3rd jobs, breaking their backs cutting the grass on OUR lawns, not their own.
We applaud mortgage foreclosures as a great leap forward toward our dream of a Dickensian utopia. If you want a vision of the near future, it is the cold boot of foreclosure stomping on a human face.
In overseas news, we are 6 months away from total victory in Iraq.
You will continue to support President George W. Bush and you will report the names of any persons heard criticizing the president, the party, or the war.
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