Wednesday

The United States Declaration of Independence states that ...all men are created equal....

Now this is a beautiful statement by the founding fathers of this country. The problem with this statement is that some people are more equal than others, meaning that there is gigantic inequalities in this country.

If one has money he rules the road or he is the king of the road.

Now that I used the lead in word to today's subject I'll get on it.

Today is Wednesday and yesterday Tuesday afternoon we arrived back home from our weekend Florida trip. The trip went fine, everything was good including the weather. But I will write about that later. Now I want to discuss the equality factor.

We were traveling on Interstate 95 from New York to Florida and back. That was about 1,100 miles each way. Went through nine states and met with different types of traffic. We left Friday afternoon and on our way South we met with different types of traffic. Until we cleared the Northeast traffic was pretty dense but once we got into the Southern states it was open road with good sailing.

There are tolls between New York and Baltimore but after that everything is free. The cheap bastards in the North are fleecing the motorists left and right.

Now here is the equality issue.

We are crawling South in Delaware on I95 when we noticed a sign indicating that there is an express lane ready to be used. The portion of the road we were on was free of tolls at the time. At the entrance of the express lane there was a sign indicating that if one wanted to use that road one had to have an EZ Pass because there was a charge for the road usage (cash was not accepted).

To add insult to injury while the speed limit on I(% was 55 mph at that location the express lane speed limit was 65 mph. We kept on crawling on the free portion of the road because I forgot to bring along my EZ Pass and saw the moneyed people whizz by on the inside road.

Later we saw this phenomenon also in Maryland.

Now how is that for equality? If you have money whizz by if you don't rot in traffic. Good country America!