Prices Soar as the War Drags On!

 

by Pa Rock

Pissed-Off Consumer

I paid $41.85 to fill the 12-gallon gas tank on my little Kia Soul yesterday.  Praise Allah it wasn't completely empty to begin with or I might have been out a full fifty-dollar bill!

I only use my little car to putt around town - which is two miles or so from my house - but with shopping, doctor's appointments, and various other demands on my life, I am often in town once or twice a day.  The only "public" transportation out my way are church buses on Sundays, but I haven't resorted to those yet.  I have taken a ride-share twice, once after breaking each arm and being taken to the Emergency Room by ambulance.  (Medicare doesn't pay to get you back home.)   One of those ride shares was with a young lady  who sat and impatiently watched as I struggled to get all of my things and my arm-in-a-sling into her little vehicle - with nary an offer of assistance of any kind, and the other was with an old farmer in an old farm truck which was also difficult to board and exit.

Ride shares in rural areas are not as prevalent or practical as they are in the cities, so if I need to go to town, I drive.   

Today I will use my almost four-dollar-a-gallon gas to drive to a local grocery story where I will buy a four-dollar gallon of milk, a six-or-seven-dollar box of cereal - and maybe a pack of baloney and a loaf of bread.  It is a comfort to know that with the economy crashing down around us, we have a President fixated on things like building a grand ballroom, constructing a massive eyesore of an arch, painting a reflecting pool at a cost of millions of dollars to suit his own particular tastes, and now constructing a "promenade" to connect the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River, as God intended.

Prices and affordability don't concern Donald J. Trump.  He could care less.  They will eventually come down, they always do, and if they don't, they don't.

Suck it up, America!  Affordability is a hoax, and Donald Trump will protect us from sinister things like immigrants of color, 'lectric cars, and windmills.  Everything else he will gold-plate and name after himself!

Shame on us for letting this happen.