You Know What’s Crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
The economy.
It’s the key that starts the car. It’s the glue that seals the envelope. It is the Ying that puts the jingle jangle in your Yang.
2009 was a year of doom and gloom. Banks failing faster than a Tiger Woods text to a mistress. 2009 was an albatross of tax payer funded Bailouts for greedy corporations who used our money to give each other year end bonuses. Corporate Douche Bags! 2009 was the year the U.S. mint printed more money for more government handouts than there are lies in the back room of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly the U.S. dollar has all the value of Monopoly currency. It’s sad when the Peso is the currency of choice in North America.
If 2009 was frightening, then 2010 is at least hopeful. We’re only 60 days in, but we’ve come too far to turn back now. We just have to keep slowling manuvering the bow of the ship through the fog and ice and hope we don’t hit that massive ice berg that is bobbing out there, somewhere.
They say it’s the ECONOMY STUPID and they are right.
The economy effects everyone of us.
People at my job silently cheer when their pay checks arrive and don’t bounce.
All of us know someone who is either laid off, looking for work, lost a house, or behind on their rent.
If you are out of work this is a depression. If you are just behind on your mortgage it’s a recession. If you have a job, then shut up and keep your head down.
On a national level, The Presidency is graded on a number of indexes from health care to foreign policy to handling of two wars. But in my estimation the Economy is the whole shooting match. If citizens have money, then citizens are content and everything else takes care of itself.
But we the people don’t have money. Our 401 k’s have disintergrated into so much bacterial ooze that I need to put mine on a petri dish and look at it under a microscope.
If we the people haven’t lost our homes, we certainly have late notices in our mailboxes from shylocks named Bank of America and CountryWide. If the sheriff’s department hasn’t moved our furniture to the street, and our phones are still turned on, the calls from the collection jackals will most certainly rain down upon us today.
For those of us lucky enough not to be sleeping on a subway grate, the house you are living in is probably not worth today what you paid for it yesterday. That sound you hear flushing in the distance is the American Dream circling the drain.
It’s the economy stupid!
If we have jobs, our employers are telling us we are lucky. They are right. Just ask the many co-workers I have who have been handed a shoe box full of stuff and told go home and never come back.
Just try and get unemployment insurance. In Tennessee, getting through to the office to notify them that you have no check is a full time job.
To stay employed, many of my co-workers took a pay cut. For those employees lucky enough to stay flat, well that’s like getting a raise, the bosses would say. You see in 2010 no raise is the new raise.
It’s the economy stupid.
There are many constants in life.
E=MC2
BUY LOW SELL HIGH
DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS.
But the universal constant I see now-a-days is this one: Supply and Demand.
It works for Dominoes Pizza, Nissan, and even the prostitution business.
DATELINE: TORONTO
This from a Canadian newspaper doing a story on the sex trade and the economic impact on the world’s oldest profession.
The paper quotes a murky character known as Drag queen “Ray” who was enraged after a late-night customer in Toronto offered him a mere $5 for oral sex recently.
The paper quotes Ray: “I didn’t spend two hours getting my makeup on and all dressed up for that,” says the 36-year-old former hairdresser from Venezuela, who usually charges $60 for the service.
The article is long and filled with salacious details, but the moral of the story is this:
Drag Queen Ray is seeing less Johns with less money, willing to negotiate harder and play one whore against another.
Drag Queen Ray is also seeing more Drag Queen competition than ever before. With unemployment so high, citizens who might have taught Johnny reading writing and arithmatic are now schooling Johnny in other ways.
Under the universal theory of supply and demand, and maybe a little survival of the fittest thrown in for good measure, Drag Queen Ray is going to have to work harder for less money because there are plenty of other workers out there willing to deep throat, I mean cut-throat the competition to get a little action.
Though she is South American, and living in Canada, Drag Queen Ray, who is a high school drop out and working in a dangerous and seedy world seems to embody the American spirit.
“I still make more than if I was working at McDonald’s.”
You hear that Mr. Obama. Whores are making more than if they worked at McDonalds.
Isn’t that special!
And it’s still the economy stupid.
Now that is Crazy!