If you’re against the health care bill now languishing/on life support in Congress, or the economic stimulus bill passed by Democrats, by all means send us your response to the following. And if it’s reasonably cogent, you’re due some equal time…

But this here Craigslist post, reproduced on Economists Do It With Models, is a pretty good rant in terms of rhetoric, and worth a look-see. It’s been reposted on several different web sites, and I dare say it’s about to go viral, but I haven’t seen it attributed to anyone but the anonymous Craigslist Chicago poster. (Wait a minute! Chicago…who do we know that’s good at debating from Chicago? Hmm…)

Again, opposing views welcome…

Hey you. You there in the Glenn Beck T-shirt headed off to the Tea Party Patriot rally.

Stop shouting for a moment, please, I want to explain to you why you’re so very angry.

You should be angry. You’re getting screwed.

I think you know that. But you don’t seem to know that it doesn’t have to be that way. You can stop it. You can stop it easily because the system that’s screwing you over can only keep screwing you over if you keep demanding that it do so.

So stop demanding that. Stop helping the system screw you over.

Look, you can go back to yelling at me in a minute, but just read this first.

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