Kennedy’s prediction:The Employed will envy the Dead

Kennedy’s prediction that “The Living Will Envy The Dead” is a pretty harrowing idea. Fortunately, the great cataclysm of nuclear winter that Kennedy feared has yet to occur. Nevertheless, his prediction has come true! The living do envy the dead! At least I do.

It appears that all those Americans that can’t find work are not properly prepared. Forbes has reported that dead people are earning more money in their deep sleep than most living people are earning when awake. Topping the list is Elvis Presley. He has actually been dead more years than he was performing, and yet he is still making money. Maybe what those saps in the unemployment line need is a jelly donut. If we can get their blood sugar up high enough, then not even death will keep them working. What is wrong with those people?

Elvis made $40 million, Charles Shultz $32 million, Tolkein $22 million and John Lennon $19 million. George Harrison, who penned the tune Taxman, (when he was still alive), still managed to earn $16 million while dead! I don’t have figures as to if those were pre-tax dollars or not. Wow, if I were dead, then I could be rich too! Death would also lower my living expenses, so I could save more. You can never have enough for a rainy day when you are dead, because you are going to be dead for a long long time. It is best to think ahead and be prepared!

Warren Zevon told us about Lawyers, Guns, and Money. He was a genius. In three words he captured all of humanity. Lawyers (politics), Guns (morality), and Money (economics.) I would love to buy his last CD, but I just can’t do it. I just don’t see any point in paying a dead man. He was a good man, and I am sure he taught his children how to fly on their own.

There is something dramatically wrong in society when the living are paying the dead. We say we believe in free speech, but it is only free if you pay for it. The cold grip of death is downright toasty as compared to the grip of copyright. Our courtrooms have become a theater of the absurd. Instead of a nuclear winter, we have a graveyard of wealth. The living that think this system works are the zombies.