Why is life a question? Why is the answer never discovered? So many look upon the rich and famous as symbols of success but they still carry the question like a lead vest. Their fortunes bring them sorrow, their fame only a consuming flame. We here in the bottom echelon are struggling with the question from a different angle. We are looking up as it is pushing us down deeper into bottom of the barrel. Those in the status of middle class are getting less every year as more and more is taken away from them and their ranks are falling like lemmings leaping over a cliff.
Why is the 1 percent going to give itself another $10 million bonus? Do they deserve it when it’s their underlings who conceived how to not pay income tax, how to charge $900 for 30 pills in a bottle that cost $10 to make, how to put less product and more air into cereal boxes and bags of potato chips, and how to make a $1,000 television self-destruct in three years. These underlings earn a fraction of what their CEOs take home. They will never last until retirement because this is a disposable society and someone younger and cheaper can be found.
Here’s wishing you all a happy new year — you’ll need it because everything will increase before next Christmas.
Carl S. Scheuffele
Vancouver
