I Help Pay Your Mortgage

The latest Teabagger B. S. [bumper sticker] to provoke me is the one that says, "Honk if you paid my mortgage!" The obvious intent is to proclaim that "You didn't pay my mortgage, so why should I help pay for yours?" It goes to the core idea of teabagger isolationism: I am where I am without outside help, so I'm done with helping anyone else.

As usual, Teabaggers can only imagine threats, not all of the support they receive from others, directly and indirectly. Here are ways that I help pay your mortgage, Mr. or Ms. Tea Party:

• Are you receiving any government services or funds, whether State, Local or Federal? If so, as a taxpayer, I am helping to pay your mortgage.
• As a consumer, I have purchased goods and services with local, state and national connections. Indirectly, my purchases eventually help you to pay for your mortgage.
  
• As a donor to various causes, it may also be that my contributions have found a way through our vast business network to enable you to pay your mortgage.

No, I alone have not paid your mortgage. But you are not alone, either. Together we have helped to pay each others' mortgages. If you are part of a Social Cooperative, this is the responsibility to one another.