California dreamin'.....

The absolute necessity for a Liberal Elite......
Justin Other Smith

prob’ly best read with a jaundiced eye........

It seems that one of the major problems of the blue-collar working poor is that we just don’t know how to manage our resources......The ‘slash ‘n burn’ mentality of the preceding generations ain’t gonna work anymore. I mean, we’ve really screwed up our environment with this nonsensical idea of what constitutes liberty. Freedom doesn’t mean that we should be allowed to clearcut all the forests, plow up all the prairies, stripmine all the coal and drill anywhere we want for oil to be sold on the open market......No! Freedom means that we should preserve all those resources for future generations... That’s why we need the Liberal Elite...
How else would we know that higher prices for gasoline is really a good thing for us becuz the government c’n make more money ‘n spend it to improve the environment.....our environment, the one we’re gonna pass on to our children.......(hopefully)
The LE has been talking about how bad our gas-guzzling clunkers are for the environment and how much better flex-fuel autos ‘ud work for people ever’where becuz ‘poor’ people can’t afford five buck a gallon gas.......I ain’t sure how a ‘poor’ person can afford to replace their gas-guzzling clunker with a thirty thousand dollar environmentally efficient flex-fuel government approved vehicle but I’m sure the LE will figure out a way to take care of us.....I mean, that’s what Government is for, ain’t it?
‘Course, we’d all prob’ly have to take the bus.....I remember ‘the bus’.......that’s what reg’lar people used to ride in my ‘way back when time’ when we wanted to go sumplace......There was Greyhound and Trailways that pretty much covered the ‘hull country and ever’ city that was worth its salt had their very own municipal bus line....why, heck, y’c’ud go ‘most anywhere that you wanted ‘n if it didn’t go right to the door, why walking is very healthful.....with the added benefit that we wouldn’t be poisoning the environment...
I want’a say right up front here, that I never, ever considered myself to be poor. ‘Course, I knew we weren’t rich. I guess I just always tho’t I was middle-class.....as was just about ever’one I knew....’Course, that’s always just a matter of perspective. If we’d lived the same lifestyle in another area, we’d have been poor...
or in some areas of the world, we’d have been very rich.
It’s all in the perspective.
I was born during the Great Depression but I don’t really remember any of it, only the stories I was told.
In the movies of that era, there seems to have been a great divide between the ‘haves’ and the ‘havenots’.... but, y’know.....most of my life has been spent during a time when those extremes were blurred. We’ve always had the very poor and the very rich but mostly, it seemed like the majority of Americans were firmly entrenched in the great middle class.....
Now, we’re seeing the top echelon of the middle class moving into the ‘very rich’ category and the lower echelon, unfortunately, moving into a new classification called the ‘working poor’.....and we’ve seen an explosion in the ranks of the Liberal Elite....and the LE don’t seem to comprehend from whence they sprang.
Years ago, I knew a person who owned a 7-11 franchise store. People who for whatever reason couldn’t or wouldn’t work for someone else would scrape together enough money to purchase a franchise....in plainspeak, buy themselves a job.
There was an explosion of sorts in the fabled seventies and a lot of people who had bought themselves jobs, found the money rolling in. Overnight millionaires. And the funniest thing happened. A lot of them suddenly discovered that they were financial whizzes...much smarter than their friend and neighbors. They joined the ranks of ‘The Elitists’......
And of course, being an Elitist gave them the right to tell us less successful types what we were doing wrong and what we should do to improve our lives.....
Now, in all them third world countries that we are tryin’ so hard to emulate, poor people don’t buy homes and cars and suchlike....poor people, working poor people that is, live in cramped apartments and travel on mass transit. Of course, there are some that own bicycles, motor scooters, even motorcycles. And people walk. People walk all over Europe. Big Deal! Rhode Island could qualify as a country in Europe and Texas could be several countries.
All over the world, working class poor people, the WCPP, live their lives without ever owning a home or automobile. Television, they got. Cell phones, they got. And they got their ruling class....their Liberal Elite.....to admire, to ape, and, of course, to run their governments for them..
Just imagine how much better life c’d be for most of us if we just let the Liberal Elite choose the best and brightest (of them, of course) to run our country for us. Ah-h! Utopia.......