Years ago, you could run an entire political campaign on the idea of the “luxury” of people having a chicken. Read that again——HAVING A CHICKEN. That meant that a family could eat. They could roast it, make sandwiches out of it, use the bones for soup, and eat it for an entire week. We were hard workers. And we worked for such a “luxury”. 

Most people I know are hard workers, yes, even actors. Our nanny Lara is amazed at what I go to the store and buy….Mondays are shopping day for me. She didn’t know about freezing meat, like that was some foreign concept to her. Chicken was on sale yesterday for 77 cents a pound. I bought two. That’s how I roll, because yes, I’m a rebel. She thinks I work “hard” to save money——and have we come to the point in society where me buying 2 chickens is considered working “hard”? OY VEY.

Today is election day. And while I don’t like to be political on here, many of you can probably guess where my sentiments lie. And no, the candidates from either side are not the evil devils the ads make them out to be. It’s ludicrous. They are all patriots of one sort or another, as many of us are….I can tell you that Meg Whitman is no more of a patriot than I myself am, as much as she wants me to not believe that or that anyone who doesn’t think the way she does must be either an imbecile or the devil.

I grew up understanding that government was supposed to: keep us safe, give us good roads and rails to ride, educate our children, and hopefully care for our health and old-age. That’s it. Simple, I know——but the idea that one party has decided that anything our government tries to do means that they are getting “too big” and so we should be “afraid” of them is insane. One party is not about “big government” and another about “less government”. That is a complete and total lie in a time when one party is grabbing at ANYTHING to make themselves heard. Listen very carefully. And as John Stewart reminded us this week—-CALM THE HELL DOWN.

Let government HELP you to help yourself. Let government HELP empower you to be able to go out and earn a living so you can BUY a chicken. That’s HELP, not do it for you. Herbert Hoover was a member of a political party that walked around promising a chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage. We saw how well that turned out. 

Vote with YOUR brain, not someone else’s. And go buy your own chicken, it’s 77 cents a pound this week at my local store. 

WG

ps. A reader wrote to me about some dentist they heard of who pays $1 a pound for candy after Halloween. I’m not sure which is more disturbing—-asking kids to sell their free food for money, or a dentist using the joy of a children’s holiday to beef up his business. NObody on this site is promoting giving up the things that make life a “treat”——the thing that would be sold right after we sold Nathen’s candy would be ME, by NATHEN………..