2015 or ?????????

Welcome to 2015

This morning I went to the market to buy a tomato and a potato.  Not quite the same kind of chore as Jack did when he took the cow to market and ended up with those beans that made everybody hallucinate, but we all have our own journeys.....don’t we?  

I simply have one question. 

 

WHY ARE TOMATOES SO EXPENSIVE?

I can grow tomatoes on my porch.  I can’t grow a potato because I don’t have a field or a tractor.

Tomatoes are $2.99 a pound.

Potatoes are .99 cents a pound.

IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE.

So many things that are happening financially on this planet  

are BAFFLING.

 

The price of tomatoes might not be the most important financial issue confronting us but since I love tomatoes I’m making it number one on my list.

 

What’s number one on your list?

The price of oil might be the most confusing to people because……

what changed since last year? 

Did China and India stop buying oil? 

Did Japan discover their own oil?

 

We’ve been told for five years that the cost of gasoline was due to the increased demand of the emerging middle classes in both China and India.

 

The biggest crock is the explanation that it’s bad for the economy if oil stays below $60 a barrel.

 

THE CONSUMER BENEFITS FROM LOW OIL PRICES…..period!

CHEVRON AND EXXON DON’T BENEFIT FROM LOWER OIL PRICES AND THAT MEANS THE TRICKLE DOWN BULLSHIT WON’T BE WORKING PROPERLY.

 

THE TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMIC PLATFORM, PUT INTO PLAY BY RONALD REAGAN, IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST CROCK OF BULLSHIT EVER DEVELOPED….AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BOUGHT IT…..HOOK, LINE AND SINKER.

 

IT INCREASES PROFIT MARGINS FOR THE LARGE CORPORATIONS AND THUS INCREASES THE WEALTH OF THE INFAMOUS 1%.

 

My New Year’s Resolution

 

Attempt to help wake up the American public TO CERTAIN FACTS….and sell more artwork.

 

FACTS:

The people that don’t vote…..need to vote....and buy my artwork.

The people who don’t pay attention…..need to pay attention…to everything.

People who think racism isn’t alive and well in America need to wake up.

People need to understand that racism is a learned behavior.

The people who think THE 1% give a rat’s ass about the rest of us need to understand what’s happening.

The people who claim a higher minimum wage will just increase prices need to see that prices are increasing and will increase ANYWAY.

Chickens not trapped in tiny tiny cages will produce better eggs.

Climate Change is an issue to be discussed not shunned.

Religious differences are not differences settled by any type of physical harm to another human being.

 

TOMATOES need to be under a dollar per pound.

 

FURNITURE Manufacturing AND Service (call centers) jobs need to be brought back into the American industrial complex.

THERE NEEDS TO BE AN INDUSTRIAL AMERICAN COMPLEX.

American Car Manufactures need to build 50% of their products capable of getting 75 miles per gallon.

Doctors have to stop being partners with

Pharmaceutical companies.....and they need to buy my art work.

George Clooney should run for President.

By the way.......

You should buy a piece of my art work…or trade me those tomatoes that are growing in your yard.

 

WHATEVER!!

JUST GET MORE INTERESTED IN

EVERYTHING

IN

2015

Happy New Year

 

But then again, always keep in  mind one important question…………what year is this really?

 

13,595,876,237 or 13,595,876,238?

I know one thing…..it’s definitely the year of the Tomato.

 

Michael Timothy McAlevey