LOL! Today I zipped out to the credit union to check on some small detail…and then ended up driving…and driving…and driving…and driv… Ugh! Driving around this city is a species of Hell, and today was no better than usual.
But roaming up and down the homicidal streets of Phoenix generated some time to think about…this, that, and the other. Among the thisses and the thats:
Back in the Dark Ages, my mother made a sober-sided prognostication:
When the price of gasoline reaches a dollar a gallon, we’ll have
S-O-O-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M!
LOL! Hilariously, she was dead serious about this.
Today I went into a gas station and paid over $4.00 a gallon.
Life in the Republic of Marx, eh?
That was pretty much today’s going rate, by the way. For ordinary regular gasoline, nothin’ fancy to run your hotrod.
Well. Of course she was right: We do have s-o-o-o-cialism now.
Medicare works as socialized medicine for elders and for certain other classes of American citizens. And people on welfare — at least in these parts — do get some access to cut-rate medical care. And food stamps. And rent assistance. And…whatnot.
Be scared. Be very scared…
😀
Oh, I’m scared alright. I’ve just got more serious boogeymen to fear than the dreaded Socialism! ;O)
Ain’t that the truth! 😀