But now I’m on medication to cure me of my chronic spending habit for cheap foreign goods at Walmart, Target and Costco. And my medicine now tastes like crap because I can’t get it laced with food dye and flavoring anymore, since RFK Jr. has outlawed all the good stuff. And he’s against any vaccines for this condition, too.

The worst of it is most everything else will be more expensive rather than less expensive in the foreseeable future at least until they bring back the cookware, toy, shirt, pants, shoes, socks, underwear, and hat factories like they had cranking out this stuff here in the 18th and 19th centuries when our country was great. They really knew how to make that stuff then, not to mention carriages and buggy whips.

We will also have to find the workers who enjoyed working in the sweat shops that made this stuff at minimum wage. Otherwise, it will cost a lot more. The only way to keep prices down will be through automation. That won’t be good news for our workforce except for those in the automation industry. Oh well. Maybe I should just relax and rely on my investments while I wait for our country to get back to the 19th century living that Trump calls The Gilded Age. Uh-oh, looks like the jury’s out on that one, too.

Glenn Duerr
Haywood County