"What happened to your franchised Doc's Gas self-service stations? I thought you became a multi-millionaire because of that."
"Lost a ton of money. It's all Obama's fault."
I knew Comstock blamed the President for everything wrong in the country--and a few things that were just made up by Fox News commentators who had too much air time and not enough time to do any fact checking. "How is it President Obama's fault?" I asked.
"Gas prices plummeted this year," said Comstock. "Cost me a lot of money. But that Black socialist Muslim Kenyan dictator refuses to give me a subsidy for having too much gas in my system."
Yes," I said sarcastically, "that does seem to be a problem. But, at least you'll be getting tax-dollars for running an unproductive farm and may get money for not operating."
"Not enough," said Comstock. "It's always not enough."
And, with that, I thought I had enough, and ran after the 7:11 D-line bus, which, on time, showed up at 7:32.
[Walter Brasch, an award-winning social issues columnist and satirist, is the author of 20 books. His latest book is Fracking Pennsylvania, an in-depth investigation of the health, economic, and environmental effects of fracking throughout the country.]
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