Thursday, December 27, 2012

American Dream

I was invited to a party awhile back.  I got an extra supervisor in and worked until 4:30 P.M. and left my restaurant to get ready for the party.  Sue had my suit dry cleaned, and it was a humdinger.  I didn't wear it though; I wore my black suit coat and my $10 pants and showed up to the party at 7:20 P.M.  Valet parking took my car and I walked into a 15,000 square foot house that was built like a hotel.  It was an amazing house.  I loved it and you know what, I was not jealous of the people who owned it.  I didn't think, "Tax them more, this isn't fair."  I looked at this house and said, "This is part of the American dream and that dream can make other dreams come true."  It made the heating and cooling business' dream come true by providing five furnaces and five air conditioners for this house.  It made the furniture company's dream come true by providing furniture to this 15,000 square foot house.  It made the caterer's dream come true by having a nice job that night (by the way, it wasn't Brann's catering, so my dream is still pending on that one).  It made the valet company's dream come true by working that night, and by me tipping $5 to the valet who retrieved my car.  So Congress, quit dreaming up ways to tax good, and yes, rich people and stop the class warfare.  My dream is for Congress to spend less or maybe the valet service can drive some of our legislators out of office.  That's my dream.