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2/3/2005
"What Should I Tell Them?" by Bo
I don't watch TV, haven t read a newspaper in three decades, nor listened to
a radio in 20 years. I appreciate but don't read most your emails but
disseminate them as from reputable sources. Think of me as your Email
Buddha. My source of news is closer to America's heartbeat, in the Blythe,
California, Carl's Junior and Subway. This redneck throwaway town from a century
ago is skirted by Interstate-10. It's a gasoline and food oasis. Every
evening I tune to a hundred mouths a couple seconds with a book in front of
my nose. The two fast-food managers are ex-students who let me read well
past mop time after the lobbies shut. He's in here cuz he's my daddy an'
you ain't! screamed the black female manager through the Carl's window at a wanta-eater after lockdown a week ago.
Students wander in and out of the joints before closing and are resources
too. Last night, I shifted focus among a veggie sandwich, Willeford's "Something about a Soldier," and a knot of youth chattering babies and
money. That's life locally, and worldwide, isn't it? My jaw dropped as the
news swept from reproduction to taxes.
Kids have babies to rake money; in some cases it's a priority over sexual
pleasure. A new baby , the pregnant Subway hand beamed, opens a state
dole and rent decreases. Mothers nearly all feed the county provided
formula mixed with nasty city water that their breasts remain attractive
through old age. The newborns through legal age are swapped around the
neighborhoods during tax time. Double heads-of-house-hold within one home
are claimed on IRS forms for a lower tax bracket. Kids are also loaned
out as dependents among parents at tax time. Last night two deals were
struck to sell the names of children for $1000 each to childless families
that will save them $2500 each. Only kids sans SSN's are worth anything.
The IRS tracks numbers but not names.
How's your credit? Monthly statements are sponged from mail boxes in the
right neighborhoods to obtain card numbers. It happened to me a while back
when a phantom ran up $900 on feminine products. Illegal documents are the
most pervasive. Blythe is a Mecca but apparently there's a nationwide
diffusion of illegal aliens. My better students will tell you where to get
a driver's license fabricated. With that, the passport comes easy. It's gettin' to be a problem, someone drawled, cuz you gotta start with a SSN. Dipsh#ts by the thousands are getting jobs with new IDs, an about the
same number of dumb asses are prosecuted by the IRS for nonpayment of
taxes. Someone worried the IRS may fold that the country may survive.
What should I tell them? Anyone who's owned a white mice ranch and
formicary knows the effect of overpopulation and crowding. That's my take
on the state of the world from Carl's Junior and Subway.