THE DOUG JONES INDEX: heartbeat of America.

I think it's time for a new fiscal index; THE DOUG JONES. It seems every morning I get up and there is breathless adulation for the transactional bliss on Wall Street and the sacred beating heart of his step brother the DOW JONES. The market is bullish. Trump is coming up trumps so to speak. The investor class is in the clover. But what of poor old main street?? That pathetic strip mall far from the coveting, speculating, manipulating, gilded pavement of Wall Street. It has become a dark and dispiriting no through road. Where boot leather is worn thin and patience and serenity are frayed. Perhaps if we woke up every morning and brewed the coffee while THE DOUG JONES was sliced and diced ad Infinitum things would change globally. Imagine if that surly bear turned bullish and the DOUG JONES rose to unprecedented stratospheric heights on quarterly news of higher test scores in schools. Less productivity lost to idle factory floors. Real savings squirreled away for a rainy day, earning solid meat and potatoes interest. Safer neighborhoods where families count and don't hide behind iron bars. Where the average main Streator’s kid doesn't have to consider a quid pro quo arrangement with the pentagon to get a shot at a tertiary education. (The money hoarder’s children most certainly do not consider such a Sophie's choice.) So, I think as the photo says, it's about time that the Wall Street squires were taxed at the same rate as the sweat of the brow. Don't get me wrong here; I'm sure it is good that some of the lucre will trickle back to Grandpa when he can no longer hoe the row. And that's a good thing right? But it doesn't add up to a hill of beans if living standards are constantly in decline. Sadly, while the current news from the corporate temples is an ecstatic, backslapping. Margarita guzzling PARTAY!! For most of the folks I know, it's a bit of a wake and a long vigil at the flag draped coffin of the middle class. I think it is high time we took a breathless look at the sinking main street numbers. DOUG JONES INDEX, I say it is time to step out from your puffy step brothers shadow and show us all what we're truly worth>