From the Cornfield

Pandering or not, here in the cornfield we need relief now. Talk of changing the system and future, long-lasting change is all well and good, but action today is needed.

The continuing crises hitting the cornfield is the high, no exorbitant, cost of fuel. Folk in the cornfield can't survive at the current price. It's not only affecting at the gas pump, it's hitting hard at the grocery store and other products.

From the cornfield, I say let the politicians pander. We need help now. Sure the proposed freeze on the gas tax is a ploy, a short-term benefit, but it's better than talk of changing the system some time in the future to provide long-term benefit. With costs the way they are we may not survive to see the long-term benefit. What good is a long-term benefit if we can't live today?

It is even harsher on those of us in the cornfield on fixed incomes. There is no chance of working a second job or getting in over time. We get paid our Social Security once a month and there is no raise for us to help compensate for the ever-rising fuel and food prices.

The critics of the gas tax freeze pooh-pooh the proposal saying it would only return about $30. Well for us in the cornfield that $30 could buy a weeks worth of groceries. The critics also say that it's not a long-term fix to the problem. We get it in the cornfield. Work on the long-term fix, but give us some relief now to let us survive until you get a long-term plan passed by the Congress and signed by the President.

I don't care if it's pandering. If it helps me out today, bring it on!

Relief is needed now - not in the future.