Post office closed.
Oops. That means old Mildred’s rent check will get delivered one day too late to avoid the 25.00 late fee, which will mean she cuts back on groceries next month, so she can still pay her utility bill and drug co pays. It means a lot of rent checks may get there late, and lots of 25.00 late fees no one here can afford. But hey, they should have sent them in earlier. After all, they knew it was a Holiday weekend, right?
Uh oh, old Roy’s prescription drug order from the on line pharmacy was due to day and he’s all out of his asthma rescue inhaler? Well, he’ll be fine till tomorrow, I’m sure.
Nope, no hot meal for the Meals on Wheels folks today, either, which means the last hot meal these old folks had was four days ago, on Friday, before the New Years weekend. Let’s hope they all had some food handy that they can actually reach and prepare for themselves, huh? Besides, they really shouldn’t expect to be fed on weekends, holidays or National Days of Mourning, now should they?
National Priorities, you know.
Clearly it is of utmost national priority to insure that a very old, frail ex President, now dead of natural causes, is honored with not one, not two or three or four, but five full days of taxpayer funded pomp and circumstance.
It’s only right. He was a very important rich old man who was our President, and he certainly did earn every bit of this. After all, he made very good use of all the hundreds of helpers he had and he did his job as best he could.
All those other very important, badly overworked and underpaid public servants and politicians certainly also deserved this chance to be seen on National TV in attendance at such “majestic event” that was, according to one pundit, downright “goose pimpling”.
Meanwhile, old Mildred, whose only (hardly-worth mentioning) contribution to America was raising four sons, all tax paying citizens and veterans, while caring for her disabled husband till his death) was no doubt distracted from her selfish worries by watching the majestic, pompous circumstances on her 13 inch TV.
And Old Roy probably breathed easier while watching it too, being an old WWII vet and still so very moved by flags and uniforms. I’m certain they do not mind their small sacrifice to honor this great old dead President.
Speaking of sacrifice, I just heard we’re going to be hearing that word from our current President soon, as he unveils his new “Surge and Accelerate” plan for his war.
Someday, there will be another National Day of Mourning for this President too, and no doubt it will be another magnificent, goose-pimpling event for our grandkids and great grandkids to appreciate.
That is, providing we all survive the next two years under this particular “President” who, despite Keith Olbermans powerful admonition to the contrary, actually DOES believe he “owns this country” and clearly has has every intention to do as he damned well pleases with it.
