There are two lines that will tell you the story of the American economy right now. The first is the one President Donald Trump talks about — a lot: the Dow Jones Industrial Average It’s an index that measures the stock prices of 30 of America’s largest and most representative companies. It tracks the value of Apple, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, and companies like that.
The other line isn’t on a graph. It’s an image of thousands of cars lined up for Thanksgiving at the North Texas Foodbank in Dallas. In one week, the food bank distributed 6,000 pounds of food, including 7,280 turkeys — enough to feed 25,000 people this Thanksgiving. That’s just one food bank, in one American city. (Ali Velshi/MSNBC)
I JUST cannot understand how both paragraphs can be written at the same time in the same period of history, in the same nation, under the same government, and We The People, somehow think this IS some kind of NORMAL! I read this article, and suddenly my brain went haywire, honestly, my mind just collapsed upon itself, imploded, exploded, twisted, turned, and begged for some kind of release from this torment and torture.
Then as if I was on a sugar high all I could think about were the titles of movies and books like High Noon/Tale of two Cities/The Wolf of Wall Street/Catch 22/Animal Farm/The Poseidon Adventure/Too Big To Fail/The Art of the Deal/A Book of Hypocrisy, A Book of Corruption/A Book of Truth/The Gilded Age/The Grapes of Wrath/They Shoot Elephants Don’t They/Lord of the Flies/The Birth of a Nation/etc., etc., etc.… Reading Ali Velshi’s Opinion Piece, reminded me, also of the tons of “Thought and Prayers,’ which always arrived at our shores like a huge Tsunami after Mass Shootings in schools, concerts, movie theaters, army bases, all as useless as the oxygen used to pretend to care was as helpful as spitting in the wind! Or the folks in the Red States or Viewers of FOX, or Listeners of Limbaugh, who proudly shouted HOAX/Chinese Flu/Democrat-Soros-Schumer-Pelosi Plot to Overthrow Trump, and who now are filling their overcrowded, and not ready for prime-time death hospitals, with something called the CORONOAVIRUS!
Honestly, how does all of this end, and does it end well? And please, I do not want to hear how we as Americans are just so OVER with this COVID thing, as if, our selfish, self-serving hurt feelings do anything but add fuel to an already out of control fire!
