"The Wine Is Bad - Throw OUT the Current Economy!"

Can't blame them, really. I once did a summer gig with the City of Pueblo Parks Department, shoveling and getting rid of such refuse. It was a sorry task of which I could make or salvage little or nothing.

One sorry afternoon I was left at the corner of Northern Avenue with just a rake and some bags, and told to hoe the weeds surrounding the eight block radius of the Pueblo Public Cemetery.

So I did it.

And here I am again, still hoe in hand, nearing age fifty-eight, and at it again in my own yards where weeds threaten to strangle me, as well as at my ninety-one year old mother's place, where I want to plant a new millennial "Victory Garden."

As for the rest of you: Best get your own wine kit and pickup truck, guys, and gals!

Bonuses? I've seen little of that particular phenomenon except on an occasional grocery store coupon or receipt.

The whole shebang of political and fiscal mess, after all, has gone way too far in this sorry, borrow and lend, economy of these United States. It's a global game run totally amuck.

So, have you, my friend, recently checked your credit card balances? Perhaps you've spent hours on the phone and online to discover from what you'll get by way of cash back from Discover, get a glimmer from Citi-Pity-Conglomerate/non-glimmer ate which spans the nation and threatens the world with dilapidation, Chase debased, Wells Fargo (damaged cargo that's actually Norwest re-visited),US Bank (which once loved you but now is thankless and can't be banked on), and Amex (that damn X), just where you stand - if you proverbially can actually stand straight and upright at all financially these days!? I have, almost daily, and been stunned with the results.

Have you compared interest rates, and then anxiously transferred balances?

Have you been reminded for the umpteenth time what clues are offered to get right your ill-remembered password, and then sighed and in time flushed with anger as you nearly put your fist through the computer, as you contemplated just how you spelled the name of your first teacher - and whether or not you used the proper suffix or prefix? And, hell whatever was the name of your first pet?

Hey, buddy and missy, I been there - and done all that!

In fact, I'm still in about the same point in the eye of the global, monetary positioning device location as I seem to have been in dollars and cents for countless years.

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