satur9poet's Blog

If you haven't heard this latest euphemism, you either don't pay attention to the news or live under a rock. "Stay-cation" is the latest cliche to be pumped out of the corporate media machine to describe the impact gas prices are having on Americans.

It's really cute to hear people parroting the term on TV news interviews. "Gas is really high, so we'll just be having a little Stay-cation with the kids this summer." Everything will be ok, skyrocketing fuel prices are just a minor inconvenience. Riiight...Today it's a cancelled flight or vacation. Tomorrow it will be 1/2 tank of gas to get to work and back and less food on the table.  And after that?

The media feed us this BS while hard-working Americans can barely afford to live from day to day. 30-second soundbytes don't even begin to scratch the surface of a very real crisis which appears to last into the indefinite future.

Just like a pig in a dress is still a pig, there's no way to dress up our growing plight with cutesy terminology. I don't see this country recovering from the current economic situation. The American Dream, once touted as within the reach of all (or at least most) Americans, is just another catchphrase like Stay-cation: far-removed from reality.

Maybe the media catchphrases will stop when we no longer have homes, electricity, and TV's to learn of them.