Re:Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup
by DanielBMarkham on Sunday September 09, 2012 @12:58PM
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Yep, as you point out these violations of principle always seem to happen with things that are emotionally outraging to folks and always at some extreme numbers.
Once the new principle has been established, however, then the system can slowly clamp down until more and more people are involved -- all without any political input at all. So that's how we end up in a security state and there really isn't anybody accountable for how we got here. Lots of little changes around the edges.
We've ended up in a spot where, if you ask a constitutional scholar, they can explain to you how it all works and makes sense. But if you ask the average guy on the street, he'll tell you the system is spinning out of control. There's a serious structural problem when the system has become so byzantine that it requires 6 years of study to understand it all. And most of those guys don't believe that it is fair or correct. We seem to have been overwhelmed by edge cases.
Once the new principle has been established, however, then the system can slowly clamp down until more and more people are involved -- all without any political input at all. So that's how we end up in a security state and there really isn't anybody accountable for how we got here. Lots of little changes around the edges.
We've ended up in a spot where, if you ask a constitutional scholar, they can explain to you how it all works and makes sense. But if you ask the average guy on the street, he'll tell you the system is spinning out of control. There's a serious structural problem when the system has become so byzantine that it requires 6 years of study to understand it all. And most of those guys don't believe that it is fair or correct. We seem to have been overwhelmed by edge cases.