We Better Want What We Are Getting ©

Itr is time to revisit an article I wrote 8 years ago!

We Better Want What We Are Getting ©

By Arlene Wright-Correll

We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

Mark Twain once wrote, “Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

I think it is both.  Things don’t seem to be improving and I think that is because “the Masses” which really should be termed “them Asses” are just standing around letting things get worse.

Sometimes it is just a lot of little things like yesterday when getting a cup of coffee at McDonalds, I had to give them my first name so they could put it in the computer in order to call me and hand me my coffee.  What can be more stupid?  Only the guy who thought of this and me who accepted it and gave them my first name instead of saying Rumpelstiltskin!  I think that would have stumped the order taker.  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

The other day my doctor’s bill was $30 more than it usually is and I just go in every 90 days to renew my prescription. The same amount of time is spent with the same doctor doing the same thing, asking the same questions, re-writing the same prescription.  Upon review I saw that every other time it was either $30.00 more or $30.00 less, so I went in and questioned it and the answer was the computer picks out what to charge.  It simply was a great Machiavellian answer or BBB which stands for Bulls__t Baffles Brains.  I am still working on this one because if I don’t then I better want what I am getting because I am getting it!

The other day I was in the grocery store and was purchasing Pistachios (no red dye please) and I had 3 choices of package sizes which was 8 ounces for $2.98 or 16 ounces for $5.98 or 24 ounces for $12.98.  You do the math.  I suppose many people either do not or can not do the math or just don’t care. We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

Though we do not keep animals, we do live in rural Kentucky where our neighbors do keep animals either for their own consumption or for their livelihood. NAIS or National Animal Identification System was proposed in 2010 for the supposed purpose of improving the traceability of U.S. livestock moving interstate when animal disease events take place and that is a very good thing in the immortal words of Martha! However, it also means that even your pet pony, pet pig or hen will have to be tagged by a vet and then will be globally positioned and watched in order to put us on one more computer screen and just remember that means one less freedom.  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

I could not understand why our town’s two lane main road was widened for more lanes for about 1 to 2 miles and then back to two lanes obviously causing an unneeded future bottle neck.  However, the upside of this was that both sides of the road received sidewalks from the center of town to just before the I-65 entrance. That was lovely though we hardly see any strollers or walkers especially those walking to the I-65 entrance! However, both sides of the sidewalks received sod which now has the added expense of mowing 4 places of grass for miles. We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

Recently our DOT decided to spend the money to remove miles of concrete I-95 barriers and replace them with metal posts and cables. Shades of political kickback perhaps for the friends of the metal post and cable contractors!  Then one day a van loaded with 11 Amish which consisted of 10 adults and 2 babies crashed through the metal posts and cables killing all but the babies. A sad event and it raised a great hullabaloo which resulted in the politicians causing the DOT to remove the newly placed metal post and cables and replace them with concrete barriers. While at this they decided to widen the highway for miles so those of us who did not find 4 lanes satisfactory enough to drive over the speed limit while passing those of us who did not would now have 6 lanes to do it upon.  Oh yes, one more thing happened during all this activity they removed a lovely stretch of old trees in the center that gave us not only clean air, but blocked the oncoming headlights from the other side.  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

This year Macy's, Abercrombie and other upscale stores are pushing Push-Up Bras for 7-year old girls as another example of sexualization of young girls.  I realize that the foods we feed our children are so full of chemicals that even boys are now getting breasts, but 7 year olds needing to learn how to be seductive! They may not know how to spell it Mom and Dad, but you can bet your hard earned $24.95 they will know how to be it.  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

We are so used to being brainwashed on TV that Target thinks nothing of using an idiotic beatnik  looking actor portraying a music teacher to promote their goods such as backpacks, denim and more in an idiot song that indicates that their kids will need all these to excel in music class. What ever happened to practice, drill and rehearse?  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

I think the ones that bug me the most are the factoring companies that yell “It’s My Money and I Need It Now”.  What ever happened to controlling self indulgence and learning to be as debt free as one can be?  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

I have been getting emails lately about Chinese cargo ships low in the water bringing in imports and leaving high in the water.  Well how about exporting grain in those ships? China certainly could use grain; our farmers could certainly use the business.  However, we have very few grain farmers nowadays simply because grain is grown by multinational companies who either grow grain or take the government subsidies to not grow grain.  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

I could go on and on, but just let me add one more.  Will you be one of the people who will no longer receive their social security check because you have other income such as retirement plans or stock income or whatever?  You may be simply because there is so much fraud in our social security plans with all that needs to be investigated it makes my head swim.  We better want what we are getting because we are getting it!

It’s wake up time folks.

Arlene Wright-Correll