The EVEN GREATER DEPRESSION.

       The year is 2016 and we've been in the Even Greater Depression for thirty six months now and counting. Next month we will elect a new president. It will be a momentous occasion, even though there is only one person running for the office. Joe, The Electrician, agreed to run for the office when he was the last person in America to have a job. But as soon as he agreed to run, he lost his job.
       All work is now done by volunteers. So we continue to have electricity because a group of politicians decided that if they were ever again to be able to give a speech on a lighted stage with sound, it would have to be them to restart the generators. After the great electrical fire of January 1, 2014, which followed the great restart of electricity be two hours, the people of America decided we needed individuals who knew what they were doing and why, to run the really important industries. Ever since then, politicians could be found at county courthouses around the country selling pencils out of tin cups on the entrance steps.
       It's been interesting to watch how different politicians proclaim their pencils as being the best pencils to do the job of writing down information of extreme importance. But even more entertaining is to listen to them explain why their competitors pencils will only get the information wrong and cause the whole country to fall into a great national disaster.
       I spoke to a gentleman just yesterday who had actually rode a camel to Washington to speak to the President and his Congressman and Senators. When he got there he was struck by the fact that these men were still sitting in their same chairs listening to a Senator read bedtime stories to the congressional staffers who had left the building three years earlier. Nobody was available to speak with my friend at the present time because of other important duties, except for one volunteer janitor. The janitor told my friend that these folks had been sitting in the same chairs so long staring at this great orator that they were no longer able to speak or hear anything. But whatever they did hear must have mesmerized them.
       Meanwhile back here in East Plowshare, Arkansas, life goes on. Now stay tuned for the next chapter of a great American during the Even Greater Depression.