I was about to post this in the comments over at Traditional Christianity, and then I decided that their site was not the appropriate place for the level of profanity I’m about to use. But at the same time, the level of profanity I’m about to use is entirely appropriate in response to what I read over there.

Freddie Mac announced this afternoon that it will allow unemployed Americans up to a 12-month forbearance on their mortgage payments. According to the statement, Freddie Mac will allow mortgage services to extend 6 months of forbearance without approval and up to 12 months with their approval.

Freddie Mac says that 10% of delinquencies on its mortgages are tied to unemployment.

MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

So let me get this straight. Right as I’m about to get fucking laid off, Uncle Sam uses my fucking tax dollars to bail out the motherfucking banks. Then I get laid off, I don’t qualify for DAMN thing to help me out when I need it, and finally – six months AFTER my home is FORECLOSED ON, when I’m gainfully employed again and paying a shitload of taxes – they decide that it’s time to offer 12 months grace period to the unemployed?

FUCK YOU, FREDDIE MAC.

I was not a huge believer in our welfare state before I got laid off, but you’d better fucking believe that I’m not for it now if it’s not even going to help me out when I need it.

I will never again vote for another tax increase on myself, no matter the reason.

I will never again vote to bail out anybody else. I will vote for anything that bails me out only because I pay so much fucking taxes and I want some of it back.

I will never again vote for any kind of welfare.

In most election cycles, this means I probably won’t be voting very much. So be it. At least I won’t be complicit in my own enslavement. Thankfully in this election, for perhaps the first and perhaps the only time in my life, I have a choice that meets these criteria and I can vote for Ron Paul. Whatever faults he has (and I definitely don’t agree with him on everything), he can at least meet these criteria. I will be voting for him in my state’s Republican Primary, and I’ll be voting for him in the general election – as a write in, if I have to.