EAT THE RICH

The bumper sticker on this rusted out bumper is a humorous play on words. As you know, the fish...Carp..after being caught is gutted and then prepared to eat. Historic houses and buildings can be gutted interiorly to renovate them for more modern living. A major player in the real estate business on Nantucket is named KARP. So the owner of this truck is expressing his sentiment that Mr. Karp should be gutted rather than buildings.

No I am not here to defend Mr. Karp. He could be an awful human being or he could be Mother Teresa's brother. I don't know. I do know that he took his own money and bought lots of real property on the Island. Some of it was falling down and dilapidated. He renovated these properties and restored them so that you could live inside without coughing and wheezing from mold and mildew. For that I am grateful. To the owner of this truck I say..."Maybe you should have bought these buildings and kept them in their original condition the way you like them." Don't have the money to do this? Then let's tax the rich and redistribute the wealth and everybody gets a free building and they can live with the rats and roaches and black mold if that is their desire. I would bet that the first thing someone who got a free building from the government would do is bitch and moan that it needs renovating.