Lemonade chronicles
Yesterday (Friday, January 7, 2011), in the Canandaigua YMCA Exercise-Gym (Wellness-Center), I watched as Senator Mitch McConnell celebrated the fact president Obama had named William Daley to be the new White House Chief-of-staff.
That this boded well, that at long last Obama had finally named someone from the private sector, instead of some professorial academic (dread).
That Daley would understand the value of a dollar because he had once operated a lemonade-stand — those are McConnell’s words.
So in other words, the fact I’m a Democrat (gasp), who never operated a lemonade-stand, means I don’t understand the value of a dollar.
This is despite the fact we pay off our credit-card balance in full every month, which is often over $2,000.
Plus we don’t owe anyone anything, our house is paid for in full (we own it free-and-clear), plus we have hundreds of thousands of dollars socked away in savings for retirement.
Plus we’ve never owned a Corvette, or a speedboat, nor a giant RV land-barge; plus our house isn’t a Taj-Mahal. I.e. We never buy anything we can’t afford.
What I think is we don’t comprehend the value of a tax-break or tax-abatements to locate our lemonade-stand in your little town.
Nor do we understand the importance of using other people’s money to finance our lemonade-stand.
So that in the end we get our hands on a Mercedes or BMW with other people’s money, and live in a multi-roomed estate.
Before we shut down our lemonade-stand for lack of favors.
And if anyone was too poor and unfortunate to get a transplant, ice-flow for them, baby!
• I work out in the Canandaigua YMCA exercise-gym, appropriately named the “Wellness-Center.” (“Canandaigua” [“cannan-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city to the east nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 15 miles away. —We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester.)
That this boded well, that at long last Obama had finally named someone from the private sector, instead of some professorial academic (dread).
That Daley would understand the value of a dollar because he had once operated a lemonade-stand — those are McConnell’s words.
So in other words, the fact I’m a Democrat (gasp), who never operated a lemonade-stand, means I don’t understand the value of a dollar.
This is despite the fact we pay off our credit-card balance in full every month, which is often over $2,000.
Plus we don’t owe anyone anything, our house is paid for in full (we own it free-and-clear), plus we have hundreds of thousands of dollars socked away in savings for retirement.
Plus we’ve never owned a Corvette, or a speedboat, nor a giant RV land-barge; plus our house isn’t a Taj-Mahal. I.e. We never buy anything we can’t afford.
What I think is we don’t comprehend the value of a tax-break or tax-abatements to locate our lemonade-stand in your little town.
Nor do we understand the importance of using other people’s money to finance our lemonade-stand.
So that in the end we get our hands on a Mercedes or BMW with other people’s money, and live in a multi-roomed estate.
Before we shut down our lemonade-stand for lack of favors.
And if anyone was too poor and unfortunate to get a transplant, ice-flow for them, baby!
• I work out in the Canandaigua YMCA exercise-gym, appropriately named the “Wellness-Center.” (“Canandaigua” [“cannan-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city to the east nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 15 miles away. —We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester.)
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