I live very near a major highway. So damn major it has two
lanes, but highway it is. Lately I have noticed that some of the stimulus money
is still hard at work. Wow I like that the President is creating jobs.
(Unemployment here is at 9%)As I drive15 miles to the nearest grocery store, I
have to admit it strains the last bit of my femininity to not get out of my car
and beat the holy shit out of one of the two men holding the stop/slow sign. I
am gobbling blood pressure pills in the front and the kids are in the back
screaming, “he is touching me”, “you stink” and hitting each other with cell phones.
You have to love teenagers!
As I pull the wad of gum from the back of my head, I see
movement ahead near the 10-mile mark. The pace car, and finally we can start
moving. I wonder if they are making these four lanes. On the other hand, are
they building an overpass? It has to be something big because they are using a truck
with stick on lights and a big sign that says, “follow me “We finally drive
five miles up the road and there it is, nothing. Wait look over there, they are
putting a two foot wide strip of dirt on the shoulder. Now mind you we sat for
ten minutes in a long line of traffic, followed a pace car at 15 miles per hour,
stopped to smack the kids, and slowly drove by a crew large enough to build the
Manhattan Bridge as they shovel used fill dirt on the shoulder of a two-lane
highway.
Reminds me of the election, like old men sitting on the liar’s
bench at the country store; each trying to outdo the other with tall tales of
their accomplishments knowing all along that they are desperately trying to
convince the crowd they are upstanding citizens. All they really are doing is
trying to out lie the other and make themselves king of the liar’s bench.
Just as the President tells us he created jobs (consider the
above incident), the other liar pretends he has no money. Now back home again
as we watch those picking rocks out of the fresh laid dirt. Yup, my tax dollars
hard at work.
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