Toilet paper

My wife asked me tonight if I'd noticed how cheesy the paper towels have become. As it happened, I was thinking earlier in the day that our toilet paper rolls were thinner than they used to be. It is in small homely details like this that you notice how the quality of life and the sheer abundance we once enjoyed is slowly being cut back. Is it the Green movement, Wall Street's rapacious appetites for profits or some bureaucratic decision made in Washington? Bit by bit our lifestyles will be trimmed back as the global standard of living is evened out. The privileged life of America is coming to an end. I feel sorry for our children and grandchildren. They'll have to make do with less than we had.