Top of The Heap

9/4/11-   ”The Top Of -The Heap” by Marty Schwartz & M. Asinoff – (his idea – 95% me).

Guess what! You know how joy, love, people & security are measured in money & success is the “best perfume”? Well, guess what! I’m “drenched” in it…And “reeking”! I just got a great job…as a garbage man! Yes! …A garbage man! That isn’t just a “huge aspiration” in places like N.Y.C… It’s a “major status symbol”…like a “blue-collar, accountant!”

George Romero’s (horror film- maker) dad told him to start-working on his pension early: be a-garbage man when he finished h.s. He knew actors & athletes make $$ & being a garbage man isn’t him.

That’s ok as it’s me & I’m happy! I made it! Now I can afford to look & act- like a “real, big- shot! Hell”, now I –can- afford- to- hang- out- in- night-clubs on- weekends & tell- babes I’m “connected”.  Women like “bad boys”. We’re exciting.

So- what if- I -get a “little creative” with reality? They’ll “buy” it when they see my- big, wad of bills & Gold Chains. I won’t tell them I’ll be picking-up trash, Monday, or the Lincoln’s my dad’s. You see I grew up on the streets & never was, or pretended to be book smart.  Although I worked very hard on my “MFBH: Masters” in Football, Baseball & Hockey! I guess I glorify actors & athletes like many Americans.

Want to know something? My smart pals still working fear being let-go. So they furlough two days a month (work free=10% pay cut) while unemployment rises, management gets TARP & Million $ bonuses. And California officials got new Caddys & Lexus with unlimited, usage, despite Six-Billon–dollar -Deficit.

Big shots take care of themselves in gov’t., & business. It took from 1789–1992 to ratify the 27th Amendment limiting Congressional pay raises.

Management wants more profit every quarter. So corporations are in merger “mania” & outsourcing. You are lucky to get severance pay & a reference. Not that references matter. There are no jobs. Auto plants are closing.  GM now stands for Government Motors.