I must make a delivery in Kennesaw, GA, about twenty miles northwest of Atlanta, tomorrow morning at 8:30am. Ive done this run a few times before and to make the 650+ mile round trip in less than the legally allowed eleven hours of driving time, I must drive 70+ mph and hope for no traffic. Driving 70mph I get about 5.5 miles per gallon. Driving at 60mph I get closer to 7 miles per gallon. At $3.60 a gallon, and 650 miles, the difference in my pocket at the end of the week is well worth driving slower and leaving the night before to split the trip. So Im in Augusta GA now. I was fortunate to have my truck break down here a few years ago for three days which allowed me to explore the town on my bicycle and get to know the place. Its a nice town with plenty of interesting history, a beautiful long bike trail along the canal parallel to the Savannah river, and just enough Bohemia to keep me interested. Unfortunately, theres no good place for me to park my truck in the downtown Bohemian parts of town. So I park near the highway in a big empty shopping center parking lot with a Hooters restaurant in front. Laugh if you want, but I find Im able to concentrate and write pretty well (you be the judge), when surrounded by three dozen television screens and screaming football fans and sipping a giant stein of beer. And occasionally I get into an interesting discussion with one of the waitresses. As I did tonight. She noticed the Cherny for Congress sticker on my laptop and we got to talking about politics. She asked who I voted for in the last presidential election. Turns out she voted for Romney, mostly because she doesnt like Obama for a number of reasons. As she listed them, straight off Fox News, I stopped her to drill down on Obamacare. I dont like being told what to do. I cant work more than 30 hours a week because of Obamacare. I said, you mean the rich white men that own Hooters are too cheap to pay for your health insurance so they limit your hours to less than thirty hours a week. Yes, and thats because of Obamacare telling those guys what they must do. Shes young and cute and looks great in a push-up bra. But she clearly hasnt thought this through. However, I see this as a bigger failure in communication from the Democrats. Clearly, they havent been connecting the dots for an awful lot of Americans. They havent been explaining why rich white men are making the lives of the majority of Americans much more desperate than they have to be, only because of their continuing pursuit of obscene wealth.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:22:12 +0000
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