Dear Editor:
Many times I’ve disgustedly deplored American’s love affairs with their automobiles. That anyone who really wanted to be wealthy via the capitalistic system, if that person could build a collapsible car say the form of a portable suitcase would succeed. Of course, it would increase the number of broken homes when the car owner decided upon going to bed placing the suitcase auto between him and his mate. What a dilemma! It’s not really funny.What puzzles me is why there’s no public outcry or street demonstration. Their little darlings are being slaughtered by enormous potholes and inferior roads and streets. Like everything American, a built-in obsolescence is keeping corporate America undeservedly thriving. Your guarantees cover either just short of outlasting the products or so precision calculated that your product collapses the following week. Anyway, you know what I’m trying to say. If it were just those things I know nobody would bother to fuss. But I’m talking about your love of your life, your adorable shiny four-wheel monster. What you went so deeply in hock for. The pride and joy that makes you better than your neighbor. Tell me, what will it take for a million man march action in serious protest of the penny wise and pound foolish manner of just going through the motions of providing a genuine highway system. One that in the long run would cost less. I would venture to guess that the cost of repairing potholes that don’t stay fixed very long is no less than the cost involved in enduring roads. Let’s give up the foolishness of crushed glass and rubber tires and call this the best way to economize. One cave crushing bomb costs a million or more and how many did we use to perhaps kill a few dozen so called terrorists, if any. Is that cost saving or making room for the next batch of foolishness. How about some real road money?
Well, you loyal car lovers when are you going to get mad as hell and do something serious about any issue so dear to your blessed hearts, if such organs exist?
Angelo Nanfro
P.S. Some of the cobblestone roads built in ancient times are still in existence and would probably abuse your cars less.