ABOUT OIL AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Gloom and glut. Grab and greed. Reduce the need and feed the bottom line and everything will be fine. Sock the poor and middle class. Enrich the rich by cutting supply and watching prices rise as high as a Texas sky. And all the while the oil barons smile and get their share of whatever the traffic will bear.
The oil's here, the oil's there. the oil's sloshing everywhere in the ground and in the tanks. The soaring profits fill the banks. And who should receive the thanks? The yanks who've died to fill the ranks of multi milllionaires who drive their SUVs as long and far as they please. Mileage doesn't mean a damn. Just leave it up to Uncle Sam.
Drivers with sense could lower their expense by driving less and, yes, that's true, but what are they going to do when there's a place that they must go just to earn the dough to pay for where they have to go?
Life has become so complicated, all because big oil has created a situation in this nation that causes no elation among those who have to ration what they earn among what they burn and what they eat and how they heat and how they meet daily costs. Somewhere along the line we've lost the way the U. S. A. once valued the treasures and pleasures of another day.
What really is the American dream? A home. That's right. Food enough for a second bite. Security day and night. The right lo live as we might. Protection from those who hate and would turn America into a one party fascist state. Is it already too late? Can we afford to sit and wait for a brand new day to dawn? How long will this malaise go on?
The oil's here, the oil's there. the oil's sloshing everywhere in the ground and in the tanks. The soaring profits fill the banks. And who should receive the thanks? The yanks who've died to fill the ranks of multi milllionaires who drive their SUVs as long and far as they please. Mileage doesn't mean a damn. Just leave it up to Uncle Sam.
Drivers with sense could lower their expense by driving less and, yes, that's true, but what are they going to do when there's a place that they must go just to earn the dough to pay for where they have to go?
Life has become so complicated, all because big oil has created a situation in this nation that causes no elation among those who have to ration what they earn among what they burn and what they eat and how they heat and how they meet daily costs. Somewhere along the line we've lost the way the U. S. A. once valued the treasures and pleasures of another day.
What really is the American dream? A home. That's right. Food enough for a second bite. Security day and night. The right lo live as we might. Protection from those who hate and would turn America into a one party fascist state. Is it already too late? Can we afford to sit and wait for a brand new day to dawn? How long will this malaise go on?
posted by Ed Weiland at 9:39 PM
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