Topix Underground

It's all kind of emblematic of a larger nation-wide, maybe world-wide, trend where just paying the freight on an ordinary life is becomeing prohibitively expensive because we are being milked like cattle. In this two-horse town, in the past several years, the family owned grocery store, hardware store, auto parts store, veterinary clinic, pharmacy have all been sold to 'private equity' firms or corporations. So now instead of getting the old man or old woman that knows what they doing, you get some teenager in a vest with a name tag and everything is 3 times as expensive. There used to be a dozen lumber yards within a 30 minute drive of here. Now I have to commute down to traffic-town and pick through the bullshit at Home Depot with all the other chumps....but they offer credit (at 30%).