My primary point in hazarding that post of vague but sufficient representation of a human truth is singly-sided (jingly-jided) at the core. I had hoped to spur a discussion about the truth of how life in these United States, once fairly likable back in say the eighties, has turned to economic shit in the 21st Century. A time when one ONE stick of butter costs a dollar, when taxation is a growing ogre that lives under a rock and plays hell on everyone to the tune of nearly 50% of your entire earnings. FIFTY. AND for what?

If you and nine other families pay a monthly number for time share use of say a park pavilion for family reunions, picnic-parties, the like, well then ALL TEN families pay equal amounts into the sum. Lovely. Now ..say ..because of natural due course of inflation, the park corporation has to raise your rent 15%? ALL TEN families will pay 15% equally---No, NOT four grandfathered-in families seated at the front table pay NOTHING (or a far lesser percentage!) while the other six families pay their 15%..plus the remainder value of the total increase. It doesn’t work that way. No, NEVER will ever work that way. BUT that is how our legislators want you to believe this country should operate. You should pay nearly fifty percent of your total yearly worth and those Grandfathered-in, per say, pay a far lesser percentage of their total yearly worth. The fact that they may have made 11.2 million this year should not be a factor..in the percentage they pay. If their wallet takes up that much space then their percentages should be exactly the same. If it were some club you belonged to, you damn-sure wouldn’t have it any other way. But it is not that way in the arts & minds of the movers & shakers at the front table of our legislative bodies and their corporo handlers. NOPE. & IT is a con. It is false value. Rotten tomatoes to the masses. False inflation. Taxation without equal representation. A trick that has benefited a VERY scary make me wary precautionary few while harming most everyone else, ..except perhaps Rossy and one or two others. Even those with good yearly salaries or a bitchin gig that pays well above the national averages are being fleeced of the fair & adequate purchase power they SHOULD be afforded ..for the hours of their life they spend working towards the national economy. NOBODY would suffer from a more honest measure of taxation. The rich would be rich and the poor would be poor but warm, lit, and fed, and the middle would be serving boat drinks @ canasta games aboard mid-sized family floatation devices; successfully festive glad taxpayers.

Fact: My father-in-law did a poll at a top body shop in the area, walked the line, queried everyone, got the facts, then laid 'em on us. Top licensed body-men are making roughly HALF what he made back in the ‘70s-‘80s. HALF (while cost of living has increased dynamically!) Hey, pal, if you can grasp that . . . and still nnnNOT be alarmed then you have been successfully drained of your true American spirit & loaded into the cattle truck ..headin for the steel pop-rod that will gladly remove your heart & mind from Liberty’s warm embrace at the earliest convenient date. Ain’t that great!?

We, as per the proactive stand of the past 22 years, will shuck & jive our way back into the black, that’s the plan Stan, can’t plan it any other way, not greedy but in agreement that life is in our viability. I mean, it’s a hunch..but we like the sound of it. However, madams & sirs, there are too many others, SO many others, fathers & mothers, not unlike your sisters and brothers, who are going under RIGHT under your noses, our noses. Cross the street and long the road near Town Square, in the lovelorn shadows of THEIR bland-egoistic & mock-decorative use of heads on pikes.

But if the topic IS old-hat and we’ve all conceded (by denial, devolution, dementia, or duress) to the paradigm that be, then forgive the intrusion to your regularly scheduled remarkable music-o-phile rhetoric (U mostly lovable lota fizzy lifting drink bubbles, U).

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La-Ti-Da,

Mud