Oh, dear, I should be so frightened. Governor Patterson is
predicting rough times ahead. I also learned that my plastic
shower curtain may be killing me. Dry cleaned clothes may contain
toxic fumes, Oh wait. I can’t afford to dry clean my
clothes. Tomatoes, no, make that Mexican jalapeno peppers may be
behind that salmonella out break. Cell phones are now believed to
cause cancer. Anyway, you get the point. All is gloom and doom
and we are facing a new CRISIS every single day. So why am I not
sad?
Several years ago, Myrna Blyth wrote a swell book called “Spin
Sisters.” The subtitle was How the Women of the Media Sell
Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America.
Well she was certainly right about the fear merchandising but it’s
not only the women magazines doing the selling. Al Gore may not
have created the Internet but he sure had a lot to do with
creating blithering global warming CRISIS idiots, frightened to
death of a natural occurring climate change. Yet Gore’s
enormous mansion uses four times the electricity as an average
household but that’s okay because he “offsets that by
investing money in projects to reduce energy consumption around
the globe.” If you think that this statement makes any kind
of sense at all you probably believed his film “An
Inconvenient Truth” was based on fact. That’s okay,
too. Guess who owns a real “green” energy saving
house-George Bush in Crawford, Tx.
I should be gloomy but for some strange reason I’m not. I’m
a home owner and the value of my house has probably dropped about
$100,000 thanks to the housing CRISIS. That’s all right. I’m
not going anywhere and it will go up again because it’s a
nice house in New York City.
I tried investing in the stock market and promptly lost $500.
That’s okay because I did not know what I was doing and the
one good stock I own will go up in spite of the stock market
CRISIS.
We lease a Volvo SUV which now takes $75.00 to fill. That’s
okay, too because it’s a safe ride for my grandchildren and
it’s not as bad as 1976 gas CRISIS when we couldn’t
even get gas. I just quit buying bottled water and ordering
pizza.
Gas is now over a dollar higher than it was when the Democrats
took over in 2006 which proves that there’s not a whole lot
the government can do about the gas CRISIS but make it worse. No
one except McCain is asking why the government hasn’t cut
the gas tax but maybe that’s because it’s a great
source of revenue.
David Patterson is calling for an emergency Aug. 19 economic
session to confront the budget CRISIS. The deficit has grown by
$1 billion (since he’s been in office?) and we are facing a
financial CRISIS. If it’s such an emergency why wait till
Aug. 19th? Let’s cut spending now.
The good news is that the gas CRISIS is helping the attendance at
beaches in Staten Island which is way up because it now saves gas to
stay close to home and because the Mayor of Belmar, N.J., Ken
Pringle, made fun of Staten Island girls visiting his Jersey
Shore town. It’s his loss because that town depends on S.I.
tourists. Why go to Jersey when we have South Beach, Midland
beach and Great Kills National Park? Sometimes insults turn out
to be a good thing.
I wonder if those labor unions and snobs who fought against a
Wal-Mart here in Staten Island regret their opposition now that
gas is over $4.50 a gallon and we now have an inflation CRISIS.
Wal-Mart still has great prices and $4.00 prescriptions but it’s
miles away. Well, at least we have Costco which is trying to move
into Manhattan. Good Luck with that. Beware the snobs.
I just can’t get into that CRISIS mood that those fear
merchandisers are selling. What I see are just plain problems
that we used to be able to handle by ourselves. What ever
happened to our ability to handle them by ourselves with help
from friends and families?
Right now we have young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan
enduring harsh and dangerous conditions so we can whine about our
petty inconveniences. I think about them and nothing here seems
all that bad.