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What is so good about being Californian anyway? We have the highest gas prices of the nation. If you think that it is because we can afford it, think again. There are more people here that can't pay $3.50 for a gallon of petrol than can, but the alternative, giving up my car, doesn't seem like an option worth consideration given how crappy our public transportation system is. (Seem me at the end of summer, though.) Leave it to the Americans to have to get around on their own. Independence seems a little overrated when you can't afford it. We are driving the nail into our own Buick-sized coffin. I naturally would have a hummer-sized coffin, not wanting to be out done.
Like a good hippie daughter, I have a consiracy theory. I think the oil barrons are in league with the government department that controls the traffic lights. For the more one stops, the more gas one uses. Although, I think the robber barrons of today are making out like pirates, so they probably don't need the aid of the government to pofit further. biggrin
Remember a little decade called the 80's? It's striking back with the vengence of a ten year plus dormancy. It had the opportunity to rest up! If you can recall any or all of the 80's, you were being repressed by a recession while the media tantalized you with images of how the rich and famous lived, allowing you to compare in your hours of insomnia the differences between you and them. You microwave your dinners to timed perfection. They have a staff of minions scurrying to make sure their veal doesn't sit too long before being placed, via their right side, on the oak dinner table.
As a side note: dictionary.com defines recession- "the act of withdrawing or going back." But let us not forget the legal definition, "the act of restoring possession to a former owner".
In all fairness, the capitalistic intrapreneurs who manhandled our struggling economy into the thriving private enterprise we the people enjoy today had to persevere through years of working under conditions with no regulation. This is a historic tale of triumph, for despite the overwhelming monetary odds in their favor, they managed to overcome the formidable obstacle of conscience. I commend them personally, because I can't ignore the little voice that yells sweetly in mine ear, "That is wrong! You are going to suffer with sleep until you do the right thing. I will lurk, devising brave punishments for you. heehee." My little voice has a sick sense of humor.
Since these barrons of the past did so much to make this country what it is, we ought to honor them like gods, buying all that their modern counterparts have to offer. So what if you go broke getting a house in Orange County or a shack in Beverly Hills! You will be paying tribute to the giants of industry who paved the thoughtless way for you and yours. And this goes triple for you poor people out there, somewhere. You have the least so you will have to pay the most until you become one of the few, the proud, the ubber wealthy.
Let us all get high, high indeed, off the idea that money if spent frivolously it can make all our fun-in-the-sun dreams come true. After all, celebrities wouldn't lie. (Blasphemy!) They aren't smart enough. They couldn't be left to cook their own veal.
OrneryAiUnicorn · Sat May 20, 2006 @ 10:02pm · 0 Comments |
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