Looking For An Evil Capitalist
The pump-price of gasoline has edged beyond three bucks, which is what it is and might even prove to be acceptable, if it weren’t for the fact that oil companies are making record profits.
America loves a profit, but only certain profits. We have no conflict with blue jeans, that farmer-pants phenomenon that swept the world, selling $2.50 dungarees for two hundred bucks. Does anybody even say dungarees any more? And we somehow seem to live with music CDs at $14.95 that don’t make any money for the artist, but pay for Malibu beach houses for record executives.
So, we’re selective about our evil capitalists.
The current rage among consumers, a wave of anger that thunders (as all waves of anger do) against the seawall of the United States Congress, has two primary villains; (A) that bloodsucking group of domestic oil companies and (B) the credit-card industry sharks, circling in the bloody waters of circumstance.
So, we’re gonna get ‘em, gonna call out a congressional investigation or ma…