But in the context, JVP was correct.No: only if you remove all the context can that be said. Since JVP didn't try to assert that at the time, further discussion seems pointless... we have to agree to disagree on this one.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
