Hi! Because of the $%^&* flim-flam changes that this editor ALWAYS makes, even when you carefully copy and paste, I tried something a little different.

Instead of my normal voluminous single and double closed quotation marks, which show up as undecipherable code herein, I tried to simply use CAPS for emphasis.

Hopefully it will be a slight improvement.

FOR SALE --- AMERICA!

Copyright: May 20, 2007 – Tom Hyland



When did it begin? How long ago was it? Were we all asleep at the switch? Exactly how did it start? Who sold us out? Was it that … Ostrich Syndrome thing which, that guy Tom keeps referring to? You know, that… head up the rectum thing? Maybe Rectified Apathy would be a better name?

Questions! Questions! Questions! Perhaps a brief inventory might help us to re-construct the Assets of our Nation? Let us see!

Well, the War ended around 1946, right? Thousands of the Boys were coming home… other thousands were still Over There… occupying Occupied Germany, and Occupied Japan, correct? Because of the necessary manufacturing of Warmongers’ Goods – planes, , bombs, ships, submarines, torpedoes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, cannons, mortars, munitions, bullets, uniforms, rations, American Flags for Burial Ceremonies, et cetera… many many corporations and companies had reaped huge profits, right?

So, re-tooling in order to switch over to manufacturing Peace-Time goods and services was certainly feasible now, and just might garner some more, even higher profits for these same companies and corporations, correct?

So, the late Forties and early Fifties was a Heyday for American consumers. New cars and trucks started rolling off the assembly lines in Detroit. New models, more options, vibrant colors, new tire-tread designs… all of these and more became available, and more importantly, more affordable! Well naturally, they were all going to need to re-fuel, right? So, Filling Stations, or Service Stations, started springing up, all over America! From coast to coast, they spread like Wildfire.

G.I. Joe and G.I. Jane finally were able to Get Together, after all those horrid years of chasteness… the Birth of The Baby Boomer Generation was a necessary result. Naturally, this fact created more needs for more production of more consumer products, like: baby clothes, baby formulas, baby cribs, baby toys, DIAPERS… lots and lots and lots of DIAPERS!

Next, these thousands upon thousands of growing Families needed other essentials, right? So, more plants and factories and distribution centers and retail stores and chains had to be built, right? Assembly lines started rolling off more and more products like: refrigerators, washers, dryers, toasters, roasters and other appliances, pots and pans, silverware (or flatware, or stainless steel, for the less affluent), china sets (newer manmade Melmac and CorningWare, for those same less fortunates), Men’s Wear, Women’s Apparel, Baby Bunting Clothing, Shoes for everyone, and more, more, more!

Next, all these wonderful, happy, hard-working people needed a place to live, right? The Real Estate Market literally EXPLODED! Housing Booms, new Developments, PROJECTS, Re-development of city Slums and Ghettoes, expansion into the BURBS (back in those olden days of yesteryear, Sociologists called it the Theory of Concentric Circles)… LAND suddenly got a Shot in the arm, and Developers started gobbling up farmland very, very cheaply!

Well, don’t you know, now all these growing families needed other STUFF to fill up their new DIGS, right? FURNITURE began being mass-produced now. Kitchen sets: tables and chairs (many incorporating new Modern inventions, created from PLASTICS and NYLON, and other E.I. Dupont De Nemours’ products) … Dining room sets: tables, chairs, buffets, serving carts, China cabinets, etageres… Living room sets: sofas, chairs, ottomans, end tables, coffee tables, lamps, and carpets… Bedroom sets: beds with headboards and footboards, mattresses, box-springs, double dressers, triple dressers, Vanity tables and dressers, mirrors, chest of drawers… Bathroom accessories: tubs, toilets, shower enclosures, shower curtains, sinks, linen closets, and more!

Now that we have the interior of the HOME filled up (mostly using that new-fangled invention the credit card… PLASTIC) let’s see what we can do to spruce up the exterior. Okay? Now these are just SLENDIFEROUS: lawn mowers, weed-whackers, fertilizers, weed killers, flower boxes, trees,
bushes, shrubs, flowers, lawn furniture (plastic and aluminum for the Po’ Folks, and CEDAR for the HAVES), bright, colorful umbrellas for the tables, picnic tables and benches, hoses, hose reels, sprinklers, citronella candles, TIKI lights (from Hawaii? Or Japan?), and more, more, more!

Okay, okay, OKAY --- we got a roof over our heads, filled it up inside and out (selling our SOULS to the DEVIL in the process), got a spanking new, shiny AUTO-MO-BILE in the driveway --- what could be next?

Well, it followed that if Joe and Jane, and Johnny and Susie, were going to be able to travel from point A to point B, somebody had to build some more new ROADS, right? And pray tell, just what were they built with? Another rectal problem… ASPHALT! Gee, is that another petroleum product? Now the Transportation industry would begin to grow by leaps and bounds. Thousands upon thousands of miles of roadways were constructed: Highways, Turnpikes, Routes, Parkways, Bridges over Troubled Waters (from the run-offs years later, from all the wonderful petro-chemical products, designed to make life easier for us), GAS-GUZZLING GASOLINE ENGINES could now begin their task to POLLUTE the environment, the AIR, and the OZONE LAYER (but, who knew? … ONLY EVERY FRIGGIN’ ENGINEER AND SCIENTIST). What possibly could we have missed thus far, in this inventory?

How about F-O-O-D? Five barley loaves and two fishes sure as Heck won’t cut it, would they? AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY… all those former little scratch farmers couldn’t possibly handle feeding all these masses, could they? Enter the HUGE corporations and conglomerates (THAT word probably wasn’t yet coined?), like: General Mills – sowing, growing, and reaping grains for cereals - while also reaping huge profits! WHY? The boxes and advertising cost more than the CONTENTS of the box!… Then there was Birds Eye, creating a huge market for another new wonder – FROZEN FOODS! And how about The KING Ranch? In case you never heard of it, a copy of the definition at Wikipedia.com follows:

King Ranch, located in south Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville, is one of the world's largest ranches (larger than Rhode Island). It is the largest ranch in the United States. The 825,000 acre (3,340 km²) ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis, sprawls across six Texas counties, including much of Kenedy County.[1] The ranch was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

In case you missed it above, let me repeat --- this ONE ranch is larger than our Second smallest STATE! In 1958, at my very first full-time job as a file clerk at SSA, when filing IBM punch cards (you know, those old Hollerlith code wonders), I discovered that it was one of the LARGEST employers in the U.S. at that time.

GEE --- and somebody (?) in our esteemed government made it a National Historic Landmark, just three years later!

Anyway, the point is that more and more large corporations were taking over the production and CONTROL of FOOD… an absolute NECESSITY! Well, Heck, Pilgrim, common sense only dictates that in order to feed the masses, mass production was necessary, right? Enter the use of more and more CHEMICALS – fertilizers to grow more and bigger stuff (don’t know when the firm name MIRACLE-GRO was started), then all the farmers in America just HAD to just PESTICIDES to protect all those crops from DEM DAR DAM BUGS, right? See prior reference above about RUN-OFFS and POLLUTED WATER SUPPLIES!

OKAY – OKAY – OKAY … so now we have bigger and better: food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and home appliances and furniture, correct? What could be missing? How about ENTERTAINMENT? You know, something to LULL THE MASSES INTO OBLIVION?

TELEVISION – The Great American Wasteland! TV’s took off like a BAT out of HECK, one by one, everybody just HAD to have one (later on, it would be two, three --- Heck let’s put one in every room, and don’t forget the THRONE room!). And lest we be remiss, don’t forget its tremendous power and value as an intrinsic built-in BABY-SITTER! Then the film industry MUSHROOMED! HOLLYWOOD… another pastime to BLOW our money on… MGM, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Studios, and more, more, more! Anybody and everybody who wanted to be a STAR flocked to Los Angeles. Over-priced and over-paid actors and actresses started providing GOSSIP for the SUPER-MARKET counter RAG mags!

Professional Sports shot up like a ROCKET! Somehow, the National Pastime of Baseball just wasn’t enough! Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Golf, ad nauseum, took over the airwaves (thus, the real beginning of channel-Hopping, methinks)… COMPETITION! YES, YES, YES… the American Imbecile must be kept from actually THINKING about the Real World, from really knowing and understanding what was going on in the world around him/her. They are not properly EDUCATED enough to understand or actually participate in the field of POLITICS! Keep them happier than a PIG in WHATACALLIT! Then we can CONTROL every facet of their lives, without them worrying their silly little heads off! Heck, we can carry off this TWO-PARTY SYSTEM so smoothly that, it doesn’t matter who ever WINS in ANY election… WE, THE ELITE, always stay in POWER! WHAT A COUNTRY!

Now, the stage is set, right? Democrat? Republican? Liberal? Conservative? Left Wing? Right Wing? Who cares? Not unlike a masterful Chess game… the King, Queen, Bishops, Knights always CONTROL THE BOARD… the lowly PAWNS are like cannon fodder anyway! Dichotomous thinking and APATHY will OUT, right?

What year was it when: the ARABS and SAUDIS were ALLOWED to buy up properties, land, buildings, companies, businesses here… in the Land of The Free, and The Home of The Brave? What year likewise, when the Japanese were riding High, Wide, and Handsome, and our so-called government representatives ALLOWED them to make similar purchases?

What year was it when: The Big Three, then the rest of DETROIT SOLD US OUT TO FOREIGN IMPORTS? Didn’t anyone even NOTICE the handwriting on the wall, when WE WENT TO BED WITH THEM? All of a sudden, car dealerships were selling foreign imports, side-by-side, on the same lots that USED TO BE ONLY AMERICAN-MADE CARS! The American workers in the U.A.W. seemingly no longer had the PULL to effect elections and voters, along with all the other UNION organized workers! Foreign IMPORTS of: automobiles, trucks, steel, ships, clothing, and more, more, more… FLOODED AMERICAN MARKETS! Factories closed, businesses closed (or got GOBBLED UP by another foreign CORPORATION), employees lost jobs, lost PENSIONS, lost SECURITY… for what? It sure as Heck wasn’t for any Balance of Trade, was it?

What year was it that RCA VICTOR moved its entire operation overseas? WHY? PROFITS, MY GOOD MAN, EXORBITANT PROFITS… CAUSED BY CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR… manufactured, assembled, and then SHIPPED thousands of miles, back here… and still cheaper! Did any other SO-CALLED AMERICAN COMPANIES FOLLOW SUIT? You bet your BP they did! Televisions, Stereos, Walk-men, Tape Recorders, VHS Players, CD Players, DVD Players, Personal Computers, Cameras, Video Cameras, Speakers, Woofers, Tweeters, Telephones, Cell Phones… and on, and on, and on… are there any American manufacturers still in business? Probably a few, but I’m hard-pressed to name any, can you?

What year was it when: a FORMER AMERICAN company (whose name I can not now even remember) was ALLOWED to be purchased by BP… British Petroleum? Have you now noticed that all the RED-WHITE-BLUE former AMOCO … American Oil Company stations have now been REPLACED with GREEN-YELLOW BP SIGNS? What year was it that the former ESSO Standard Oil Company changed its name and logo to EXXON? How come it is STILL ESSO IN CANADA? How come most SHELL stations charge 10-15-20 more cents at the pump today, and FOOLS STILL GO THERE?

What year was it when: our government started ALLOWING FOREIGN COUNTRIES and corporations to BUY OUR SEAPORTS? GEE, nobody even seemed to care until way after 9-11, when it was discovered right here, in ole downtown, BAWLMER, MERLYN… and became a National NEWS item. THEN, afterwards, a few stalwart reporters started investigating the ownership of PORTS in other states… OOPS! Did our esteemed Administration, along with CONGRESS, get their collective hands CAUGHT in the COOKIE JAR? Has this INVESTIGATION ever been followed up, and CORRECTED? Who knows? Who cares? Who gives a rat’s rectum? Certainly NOT the American public! He/She/It is too darned busy watching: Movies, Sports, SOAPS, Cartoons, Videos, DVD’s, listening to iPods, Blueberries, RAP-CRAP… Heck, probably would be more aptly named DINGLE-BERRIES!

So, my friends, as the sun slinks slowly into those vast Western skies, and I attempt to finalize this little letter of queries, have you noticed anything different? Are these Truths self-evident? Did you note that I have provided NO answers? Questions, questions, questions everywhere, all questions… and not a drop to THINK!

Hopefully, you also noticed that I tried to … clean up my act … less cuss words and just a tad of the vernacular… Better? Worse? Mediocre? Did I put you to sleep? Did I invoke any measure of GUILT on your part? Do you have any animosity toward those who have consciously and avariciously SOLD AMERICA DOWN THE DRAIN? Is there any HOPE? I HOPE SO!

WHAT DO YOU THINK? FEEL? Do you have the ability to Devote, and then Emote? Have you had enough of crooked companies, corporations, lawyers, and politicians? Are you SICK of the PORN and DOPE that permeates our society? Are you even aware of the POWER OF ONE?

Will you DO anything about any of these things? Are you ONE of the 40,000 AUTHORS that AD claims to include at this site? Can you PAY IT FORWARD? WILL YOU? Do you still LOVE YOUR COUNTRY?

The prior SILENT AUCTION IS OVER... the SILENT MAJORITY IS DEAD!

APATHY NEEDS TO DIE! LET SYMPATHY AND EMPATHY BEGIN TO PREVAIL…

A journey of a thousand miles begins with that FIRST STEP… WILL YOU PERSONALLY TAKE IT?

J-PAL… Joy-Peace-Abundance-Love…

from me to you… Tom.