catering to the one percent

There's been much talk here about living wages, and it would seem to me that a living wage would be high enough for somebody to maintain a car, It seems like if the businesses of Cheboygan want more help maybe they should pay more.  Where does this low cost help come from?  At under seven square miles it seems like anybody could walk anywhere they wanted to go in Cheboygan.  Are there a lot of people like Beagles who have their freeholds strewn across the land? 

Well I remember those two years when I had a car.  It was a cheap one so it kept breaking down, then there was gas and insurance.  As soon as I didn't need it anymore I abandoned it to some parking lot.  For years I worked for minimum wage and not that steadily either, still I managed to have an pleasant enough lifestyle (there was always money for beer).  Not sure if I could have maintained that if I was always shelling out dough for some consarn automobile.

Does Cheboygan get its share of tourist trade in the summer?  Hunters and fishermen, outdoorsmen?  I imagine there are some passing through on the way to Canada and parts north.  One vacation, after the family had gotten that pea green Customline we drove around Lake Michigan.  We went up the west coast of Michigan, and through Mackinaw and then back down through the UP and Wisconsin.  I was wondering if we might have passed through Cheboygan, but it looks like it was a bit to the east of our probable route.

That Jamaican help probably has their airfare subsidized by the gummint. and I'm sure the employers prefer them to the local help because if they get any lip from them they put them on the next plane trip back to the island.

I didn't know that the fact that the top one percent owns forty percent of the wealth was strictly a liberal lament.  I thought it bothered a lot of other people.  We have had the discussion before in the halls of The Institute as to whether income inequality could become a problem if it becomes too well, unequal, but I don't recall us ever coming to any conclusions.  But I guess it is more a preoccupation of the left than the right.  I am already seeing in the arguments for not soaking the rich, that if we soak them too hard, which means soak them at all, why that will stifle the flow trickling down to those holding out their empty hands for scraps beneath the silk-curtained windows of the one percenters at their feast.

There was a local woman, a successful businesswoman but not a one percenter, who rented out like thirty motel rooms for tent people at the height of the vortex.  I reckon the cost of renting out those rooms for a year was less than it costs to keep up one of those luxury condos,  That's how you make a living catering to the one percent.

At last word it looks like there is a settlement on that budget shutdown thing.  It remains to be seen if Trump will sign it, but I think there is a good chance he will.  Maybe now we can turn our attention to Brexit which it looks like is hurtling towards an exit with no deal which will be a hard bump indeed..