Posted by
skep41 on Friday, May 23, 2008 11:28:17 AM
Ah,
the sunny days of the 1960s when the songs were all about how much LSD
we just took and having sex with all and sundry. Jim Morrison died
before merciless old age could turn him into a fumbling Ozzie
Osbourne-like acid-casualty and a good thing too, because the song has
changed. Now what couldnt get much higher are taxes, energy prices and
the cost of food. Oh, but they CAN get higher,
much
higher! There will soon be only one issue in this election and the
rising cost of living will be it. Because various different measures
are used to calculate inflation, and because the government, which has
so foolishly linked all transfer payments, government salaries and even
most procurement contracts to inflation, has a vested interest in
underreporting inflation the true decline in the value of money is not
in the statistic books. But people dont read the statistics while they
watch the numbers on the gas pump rotate with a speeding blur as though
they were wheels on a slot machine and feel their hearts sink as their
Suburban, which they still owe $25,000 on, gobbles up every penny of
their disposable income and dollar of available credit. Then, when the
enormous gas-burning flivver squeezes into the spot marked 'COMPACT'
and comes to a halt at the local supermarket and the cel-phone is
temporarily given a rest, the middle-class shopper is confronted by
prices that seem to have morphed into their worst nightmare. Working
housewives are now faced with a horrible specter. Just picking the kids
up at day care and zipping through the drive-thru at Burger World to
provide dinner has become out of the question, the money for that just
got put in the gas tank, and if you look at which prices have risen in
the most in the supermarket its obvious that the more processing a
product has gone through the more the price has risen. So now Mrs
America has to face a reality that younger women have never had to face
before, they have to cook a dinner from scratch. And they dont know
how. The result is anxiety. Fear. How could things be going so wrong?
Why has my electric bill doubled? Where are we going to get the money
to pay the gigantic property tax bill thats just arrived? Right now the
anger for this has been successfully focused on Bush, and rightfully
so, because Mr. Comity allowed the feeble and oppressive bureaucracy to
grow like a cancer and never pushed for a sane energy policy that might
have mitigated this situation a bit. Did he ever say one word against
the environmental radicals who are hamstringing our country? This guy
is from a oil family and from an oil state but he didnt have the guts
or the imagination to stand up for energy policies that made any sense.
But
Bush is history. Now we have to decide which of these three
inarticulate idiots is going to do something about the pickle the
average person finds themselves in. They're still talking about
nationalizing the health care industry and Global Warming. But oil
prices havent stopped rising yet. There still hasnt been a
corresponding drop in demand, that will happen when the manager of
Burger World starts laying off employees because the line of Suburbans
at the drive-in window has shrunk to nothing. When the Winnebago
factory closes. The former employees of these establishments will be
living in the cars they cant afford to put gas in.
We have reached
liberal nirvana. The result of abandoning the moral code and economic
system that made this country rich will be that the country wont be
rich. An era where the average person lived better than the richest
people in past history is coming to a close. The housewife who cant
cook and the laid-off fast food worker are going to vote for Obama.
The End.