http://gneissguy.com Re-crystallizing life's nonsense with the intense pressure of reason. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://gneissguy.com/2009/02/the-dastardly-landlord-is-bs/ http://gneissguy.com/2009/02/the-dastardly-landlord-is-bs/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:41:10 +0000 admin http://gneissguy.com/?p=77 OK everyone, especially all of you populist liberals out there, Robin Hood stole from the tax collector and gave to the poor.  He did NOT steal from the rich and give to the poor.  A recent version of this is a TV commercial in which a damsel (I use this term very loosely) in distress calls out for some pay-day-loan hero to come and save her.  Save her from what?  Her landlord.  They made him up to look and act very dastardly but he was her landlord trying to collect rent owed to him.  Nothing about him changing the rent in the middle of the lease, and nothing like him breaking in to steal her belongings, he was just trying to collect the rent.  If you sign a contract and you are living in someone else’s building and you refuse to pay the rent, YOU are the villain because you are stealing from your landlord.  Is this really that hard to understand?

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