A little slice out of life

Today on average - I make in an hour what I used to make in a week when I first started working. Yes – I am considered “seasoned” by some, or “old” by my kids.

The point is – I am in business for myself and even though I know the numbers, when it comes to pricing my services, I sometimes find myself thinking in the 50’s & 60”s. Then of course, gas cost .25 cents a gallon or less. That causes me to think about how far we have regressed. Yes – I wrote regressed.

I remember when my dad brought home a $100.00 a week in the 50’s and we had a new car each year. We would it right out of the factory in Detroit. We were never considered rich. We were typical Americans growing up after the war, learning how to live with debt - building the great American dream.

Are products so different today, that a motor vehicle using .35 cents a gallon gas, (.10 cents in the 50’s) was any less efficient then the cars we drive today? My gas hog 57 Chevy used to get 12 to 14 miles to the gallon on a good day. Moreover, that was with me at the age of 17 with my foot through the floor all the time.

My neighbors SUV gets the same today. My cost per gallon then was .25 cents. Today it’s $3.85.

Some "A__hole" in Washington is sitting before a congressional hearing telling us how oil companies are not profiting, and why – in order to save money we need to be more economical, and why it’s our fault.

My solution? I will show you economical. I’m am going back to the horse and buggy, raise a herd of cattle, and say the hell with any tree hugger who tells me that my cows are producing too much methane gas, which is contributing to global warming. I am going to tear up the land, grow my own food, cut down a wide section of old growth forest to build my own house, and provide logs for my efficient but old wood stove.

I am going to butcher my hogs and my cows, eat meat because my body needs it to stay warm, and home school my kids because of the wasted intellectual system we have fostered in this country. I am going to dig a well, deplete your water table because all you’re doing is polluting it, and reuse my waste water to water my land.

If you don’t like it – turn your back. You don’t need to worry about my little slice out of life. I can assure you that the biggest cause of global warming, high fuel prices, and less efficient automobiles is not me, but it is the methane gas produced in the Congressional Halls of Washington every week.
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Copyright 2008 - Gary A. ClarkGary Clark is a Freelance Commercial Writer and Web Content writer who for 25 years has been both a Consultant and instructor of Small Business Entrepreneurship. He can be reached by e-mail at GAClark@Write4me.net, or by phone at 719-536-0505- Mon thru Fri / 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (MST)