A sign of the times
April/25/06 07:49 PM
Mr. President,
I was driving around this last weekend and noticed several oddities.
There are normally only two seasons in my area, its either winter, or construction.
It seems like the moment the last snow flake of the season hits the ground. The traffic cones and construction barriers go up diverting traffic around perfectly good lanes, as people in orange jackets take over the roadways and speed limits on expressways drop to 45 miles per hour. Over the years, fines for exceeding speed limits through construction zones have been increased because reckless drivers have seriously injured and often killed street construction workers.
Street venders could make a fortune pushing their carts along the long line of cars usually lined up bumper to bumper on the roadways.
So I was pleasantly surprised this last weekend when I sailed through expressways, but it felt as though I was thrusted into an episode of the twilight zone until I realized how much I just spent filling my gas tank before I got on the expressway. I looked around me and realized the small fortune each of us are carrying in the belly of our beasts. Many people have obviously cut back on their driving.
When I got off the expressway and stopped at a red light I noticed a new business on the corner of the intersection and the uniqueness of its location. It really nailed what your administration has done to the general public. It was a pawn shop next to gas station and across the street from a drug store.
Despite, how bad things get there are always opportunities for people to capitalize on the situation. During the depression Dillenger, Bonnie and Clyde became folk heroes for robbing banks that foreclosed on destitute farmers. The banks made a fortune during those days.
In the very near future thanks to your new punitive bankruptcy laws it will be the credit card companies who will be foreclosing on people's houses. There are already articles hitting the paper about people living in their cars after losing their homes.
So unless something changes drastically, credit card companies, oil companies, and pawn shops may be tomorrow's prime benefactors of Bush economics. Now that many money transfers are all ones and zeros in electronic funds transfers. Who will be tomorrow's Dillenger to strike a blow for the common man?
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: April 25, 2006 8:03:33 PM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House is
unable to respond to every message, and therefore this response
is an autoreply.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.
I was driving around this last weekend and noticed several oddities.
There are normally only two seasons in my area, its either winter, or construction.
It seems like the moment the last snow flake of the season hits the ground. The traffic cones and construction barriers go up diverting traffic around perfectly good lanes, as people in orange jackets take over the roadways and speed limits on expressways drop to 45 miles per hour. Over the years, fines for exceeding speed limits through construction zones have been increased because reckless drivers have seriously injured and often killed street construction workers.
Street venders could make a fortune pushing their carts along the long line of cars usually lined up bumper to bumper on the roadways.
So I was pleasantly surprised this last weekend when I sailed through expressways, but it felt as though I was thrusted into an episode of the twilight zone until I realized how much I just spent filling my gas tank before I got on the expressway. I looked around me and realized the small fortune each of us are carrying in the belly of our beasts. Many people have obviously cut back on their driving.
When I got off the expressway and stopped at a red light I noticed a new business on the corner of the intersection and the uniqueness of its location. It really nailed what your administration has done to the general public. It was a pawn shop next to gas station and across the street from a drug store.
Despite, how bad things get there are always opportunities for people to capitalize on the situation. During the depression Dillenger, Bonnie and Clyde became folk heroes for robbing banks that foreclosed on destitute farmers. The banks made a fortune during those days.
In the very near future thanks to your new punitive bankruptcy laws it will be the credit card companies who will be foreclosing on people's houses. There are already articles hitting the paper about people living in their cars after losing their homes.
So unless something changes drastically, credit card companies, oil companies, and pawn shops may be tomorrow's prime benefactors of Bush economics. Now that many money transfers are all ones and zeros in electronic funds transfers. Who will be tomorrow's Dillenger to strike a blow for the common man?
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: April 25, 2006 8:03:33 PM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House is
unable to respond to every message, and therefore this response
is an autoreply.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.