My Christmas List

Dear Santa,

I would like America to become “skater friendly” like it was in the late l970’s. Skateboarder Magazine sold more magazines from the 7/11 shelves during that era than all other magazines combined. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from skating.
I would like America to become “dirt bike rider friendly.” In my hometown there are more “open pipe” Harley-Davidson motorcycles than there are on/off the road bikes. They make more noise than a diesel dump truck, and they seem not to be regulated by the E.P.A. Meanwhile I have to sweat bullets to even think about riding my harmless pleasure machine. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from motorcycle riding.
I would like jazz music and other individual forms of artistic human expression to flourish. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from The Arts.
I would like tuition to go down at both private and public institutions of higher learning. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from Harvard, Yale, or Brown’s Endowments.
I would like teacher’s salaries to go up. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from our children’s educations.
I would like the cost of health care to go down to reasonably payable levels. Pharmaceutical companies are going to make lots of investment capital off of inflated and overwritten prescriptions.
I would like America’s natural resources once again to be preserved. Wouldn’t it be nice to see dirt track racing on the beaches of Daytona again? Wall Street all ready has squandered most of their money made from bad real estate investments including our American waterfront.
I would like the concept of Political Correctness to vanish from the face of the earth forever. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from millions of screaming rock music fans, but the record companies did. Oh forgot, Apple, iTunes and the mp3 have put the record companies out of business.
I would like the P.C. to vanish from the face of this earth forever along with Bill Gates. He can leave Word 4 behind. (for the Macintosh)
I would like to see the “Big Three” American automakers transplant their entire businesses to other countries. Wall Street is not going to make investment capital from their bankruptcies. Oil companies can make investment capital from them, as long as it doesn’t go to George W. Bush.
I would like America’s interstate highways once again to become motorist friendly. Wall Street is not going to lose investment capital from regulating diesel trucking.
I would like large retail stores to shrivel into thousands of viable “Mom and Pop” stores. Wall Street may lose some investment capital from the disappearance of Target, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart, but “So What?”
I would like AC Traction to vanish from the face of the earth forever. Maybe the CSX-T Corporation will lose investment capital, but “So What?” Millions of Americans instantly will be relieved from their Attention Deficit Disorder, Panic/Anxiety Disorder, and Bi-Polar Disease. (Well, maybe not everyone)
I would like the gay agenda to become stealth. Wall Street will not lose investment capital if America becomes straight, again.
I would like television and radio to have a Renaissance. Wall Street will earn venture capital for a resurgence of quality media.
I would like for the war in Iraq to end. Halliburton will lose millions in investment capital, but Cheney can try to retrieve the diamonds from Thomas Levy. “Is it safe?”
I can’t think of anything else at the moment.


Love,

Bobby