I have just started apartment hunting today, and have already gotten responses on my internet ads in which I describe exactly what I need. So the entire site, with members section containing free psychic readings, spells, great spiritual advice that works, and magical secrets that are not taboo to anyone to reveal, will get on the horn shortly. Say, here in New York all kinds of taxes – “punishment taxes” I call them, make a pack of cigarettes $9.75 for the cheap ones and over $11.00 for the “good” ones. They make you PAY for your sins in New York. But lately, all around me, people are talking about quitting, needing to quit, trying to quit, how to quit, I mean it’s everywhere. I guess a $300 per month habit for a pack a day is getting a little pricy as people’s money supply continues to shrink.
And meanwhile, the public libraries are going from 6-7 days open to 4 – so many things are being cut all around – hospitals are closing – programs being shut down – New York subway routes being eliminated – bus lines too – bus STOPS! What can they cost? A tiny bit extra of petrol? And meanwhile, the coasts of east Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and West Florida, along with God knows how many Carribean islands, stand threatened to have their economies wrecked by what is today described as an oil slick “bigger than the Exxon Valdez” – you see how they always try to add the “anthropomorphic element” – try to put it in human terms so they can understate it’s true size?
The days when Americans have to come to terms with the fact that America is broke, football will not save them, cellphones are taking away all their privacy, and our next President might very well be an Army General, are drawing closer and closer.