Who will repay the old debt?

 

Who will repay the old debt?

 

  Agudenba told the young man A Dong a story about a world star who failed to repay the money he owed, and as a result, his wife and children were separated, and he lost both his life and wealth.

  Agudengba then told A Dong a story about three generations of people collecting old debts:

Nineteen years ago, a certain township purchased building materials for a villager's house for road construction, worth more than 30,000 yuan, but no payment was made. In the past 19 years, the building materials factory run by this family has long since closed down, and three generations of grandfather and grandson have taken over the task of collecting debts. My grandfather has been dead for many years, and my father has lost confidence in debt collection. However, it was not until local media reported that the money for building materials was paid to the third generation of debt collectors.

It is a basic principle that you have to pay back the money you owe, and there is no doubt about it regardless of the law, morality, or reason. Paying back debts is considered normal but not noble; failing to do so is considered abnormal. Deliberate failure to pay back is a matter of moral character. If one is really unable to pay back, it is also considered a credit loss.

  The villagers said this matter was a "problem left over from history." Problems left over from history often mean that the situation is special, the causes are complex, and it is difficult to deal with it, so it is easy to put it off. Now that the money has been repaid, the villagers seem to be quite satisfied, but after 19 years, if it were not for the media reports, it would be as if the government could never repay the money, which still leaves people speechless.

Moreover, according to the agreement between the two parties, only 24,000 yuan was owed more than 30,000 yuan, and the villagers gave up the rest of the money and 19 years of interest. Now that an agreement has been reached, it can be said that it is a kind of procedural fairness; however, in the end, the villagers still suffered a great loss. This is substantively unfair. This can be attributed to "issues left over from history". It is better to have money than to be owed money, the villagers just reluctantly agreed. This kind of negotiation is enough once, and an agreement is not enough to restore the government's credibility.

We've been hearing a lot of strange things in recent years. There are those who force and punish the people, those who demand food and drinks from businesses, those who have failed to pay for food and drink and ruined restaurants by village and rural cadres, those who did not recognize the money owed by the previous term and those who will dispose of people's property at will during land acquisition and demolition.

How does the story of the township government's failure to repay money qualify as "historic" or "legacy"? There was no problem in the first place, but it turned into a historical problem; it could have been solved at any time, but it was passed on from one person to another, and it turned into a legacy problem; this is the process in which problems are created and magnified. As long as we are irresponsible, "problems left over from history" will inevitably arise one after another. If you look around the world, you can see such chaos everywhere.

 

Agudengba sang an international debt collection song "Who will pay off the old debt":

 

Tear down the east wall and build up the west wall,

New debts were borrowed to repay old debts.

Debt trouble has no limit,

National credit aside.

 

Someone comes to your door to borrow money.

Write an IOU to show your integrity.

The state borrows money to issue orders,

Get your money and buy bonds quickly.

 

Printing money to buy bonds and raising interest rates,

Borrow the new and return the old trick.

Whose hands does the benefit fall into?

The financial giants smiled.

 

Making money through medical treatment is a means.

The windfall enriched the arms dealers.

Collusion between politics and business is greedy;

Power becomes a money-printing machine.

 

Financial crises will come around again,

There is no place to lose face for breach of contract.

Spend tomorrow’s money today,

Don’t ask who will repay the old debt?