Maszman Speaks!

Behold the power of stu­pid peo­ple with money!

No one has to tell me that salaries aren’t keep­ing pace with infla­tion. Ris­ing gas prices would be bad enough, but now I pay sig­nif­i­cantly more for fewer health ben­e­fits. I guess I’m glad I don’t have any debt other than my mort­gage, or I’d really be worried.

Upper-level man­age­ment is doing just fine, of course. They’re also the least likely to have their jobs out­sourced. Funny how that is.

There was a hor­ri­ble bus-truck crash near me last night that resulted in four deaths. The bus was car­ry­ing a women’s hockey team that had just played a game at the War Memo­r­ial. They were on their way for night ski­ing when the acci­dent happened.

The cause is still being deter­mined but the NTSB is all over this. Three years ago another fatal bus crash occurred that was later deter­mined to be dri­ver fatigue and the dri­ver in this one is being called a “per­son of inter­est”, espe­cially since the truck was stopped and off on the shoulder.

One deci­sion that often has to be made at large fires is whether to extin­guish them or let them burn out. But every now and then you run into a sit­u­a­tion where you can’t eas­ily make a decisoin one way or another. Like the burn­ing manure pile out in Nebraska.

While our gov­ern­ment focuses on fight­ing ter­ror­ism and run­ning up enor­mous deficits, our global dom­i­nance is slowly shrink­ing. If that con­tin­ues, our cur­rent way of life, espe­cially for the mid­dle class, is doomed.

That the world, and espe­cially the Poles who lived nearby, could over­look such mon­u­men­tal evil is a sor­row I will carry for all of my days.

I hope to some­day visit Poland and Ger­many, the places of my ances­tors. Per­haps I will also visit Auschwitz and the other places of death. Because, unlike that inbred idiot Prince Harry, I have not for­got­ten. Nor do I doubt for a moment that some­thing like it could hap­pen again, given how so many have for­got­ten. So while we pray for the vic­tims, let us do all that we can to remind our­selves of what can hap­pen when the major­ity look the other way.