Every morning I get up and make breakfast. It’s a big breakfast; eggs, bacon, potatoes, an avocado, some fruit, maybe some tomatoes. I work from home, so I don’t have to hurry out the door with coffee in one hand and a granola bar in the other. I can sit down and enjoy a nice meal before my hectic day begins.
I have a Tappan gas stove. It’s an older model, made in the USA. The grates on the stove top are made of iron. You know the type. Each day I reach in my cabinet, grab a very large pan, sit the pan on the stove, turn the knob to “light”, and “Viola!” I have fire! For three years now, every morning, without fail, that stove lights, and I cook breakfast.
Now, the stove lighting when I turn the knob to “light” is supposed to happen. However, it’s not that simple. You see, someone made that stove. Someone right here in the USA. When that stove was purchased, someone delivered that stove to my home and hooked it up to the gas lines and the electrical outlet. They probably tested it several times to make sure the electronics and the gas worked correctly.
But that’s not all. You see, each day there are people behind the scenes, employed by the local power companies, ensuring electricity and gas makes its way to my stove, to make sure when I turn the knob to “light”, its lights!
I also know there are other people working behind those people, each day, insuring I have the power to light my stove. They take care of the machinery, and the lines, and the systems, and all the apparatus that drives power to my stove, so I can enjoy my daily ritual of making breakfast.
Some of those people work during the day, but others are there at night, long after I have gone to sleep. When there is a storm or an accident or some kind of emergency, they are right there, analyzing and troubleshooting and repairing, just to make sure, when I turn that knob on my stove to “light”, it lights!
Why go into all this detail, you say, to explain something as simple as lighting a stove? Because my stove works! It works without fail! Every morning I can count on being able to make my beautiful breakfast, take pictures of my plate and put on Instagram, because my stove works!
And guess what? My stove is only one of hundreds and maybe thousands of things I use each day that work! My shower works, my toilet works (thank God) my car, (made in the USA) works, AND my AC works! (in Florida, that’s important!)
I get a paycheck every week because my company, a US company, has a payroll system they developed, that works! When I leave the house, my door locks work; when I get gas, the pump works; when I go to the store, the automatic doors work; when I go to the beach and have to drive over the bay, the bridge works; when I drive on the tollways, the electronic toll booth works; when I need cash, the ATM works,(Well, except when it’s not working!) and so on and so on and so on. Things work!
Do you know why all these things I use each day work? Things you and I take for granted that WILL work? Because behind all these tools, and gadgets, and systems and toys, and processors, are people, right here in the USA, that work! They work hard! Day and night these people work! They work to make sure our stuff works! The stuff that we take for granted WILL work! The hundreds and thousands of things we use everyday, things we rely on, things we need, things we cannot do without, that work!
So when Donald Trump says, “Nothing works in this country anymore,” it’s not an indictment of the tools and gadgets and processors and gizmos and systems we use everyday; It’s an indictment of you and me. It’s a slap in the face to all the hard-working people who, every day, and every night, work their asses off to make sure those tools and gadgets and processors and gizmos and systems we use everyday, some, many times a day, just WORK!
So don’t believe this negative garbage that “Nothing Works.” You and I have proof each day that most things DO work! They work because, we work, because America works, and for this, we can all be proud!
The Lonesome Leaker 