Pizza Prices are outrageous!!!!

On an island, not far from the United States, lives a family of 10 people. There are three generations of Libbies represented in this household. Their lifestyles, happiness, and desires are based upon the availability of pizza.

For years, the Libbies bought their pizza from distant lands. The cost started off modest, making investing in making their own crusts not so worthwhile. They loved their foreign pizza.

They had pizza from neighbors. Pizza from places that did not like the Libbies, but their pizza wasgood and plentiful, so money was the key to that relationship.

These places where the pizza was plentiful started getting more and more, and even more, customers. Suddenly, the modest price of each pizza started to climb higher and higher.

The Libbies grumbled, mumbled, and moaned over the rising price of their beloved pizza. Instead of $5 a pie, it prices soared to $12, then to $15, then to $19. Instead of doing something about the cost of their pizza, they cut back on other expenses. They cut out going to the movies, flights abroad, concerts, vacations, big screen TVs, and other spending. They needed their pizza.

Sadly, these people continued towards financial ruin. Even more upsetting is the fact that they had all the necessary ingredients to make their own, terrific pizzas. All they needed to do was invest in a new oven and get the rollers to roll out the dough, and they could live on all the pizza they could ever want and need.

The Libbies let neighborood wack-os claim that baking their own pizza would pollute the neighborhood. They claimed that the extra power they would use for making their own pizza would be too costly, both financially and to the environment.

The wack-os never complained about the other pizza places and their pizza producing techniques. They only held the Libbies back. The Libbies bought into this wild, unprovable theory of weather change, and let that theory be the cover for why they did not cook their own pizza.

The Libbies farm had a thousand head of cattle, whose milk could make the cheese for the pizzas. The Libbies farm had the ripest, sweetest tomatoes. They had the most nutritious, wholesome wheat and grain growing on their farm. Their pigs could produce the greatest sausage in the world.

All they need to do is invest in a new oven as well as the mixing and prep equipment to make their own pizza. The Libbies are smart, resourseful people. They have the ability and technology to create and use equipment in such a way that would virtually eliminate any environmental disturbances.

In fact, they could even prevent the smell of the fresh-baking pzzas from getting out into the neighborhood.

Not to mention the fact that as soon as it would be known that the Libbies are cooking their own pizza, the cost of pizza would freefall around the world. They wouldn't even need to be in production yet. The fact that they were moving toward their pizza inependence would cause a ripple effect.

If the Libbies would only make their own pizza, they would be able to restore their financial strength and independence. They would also strengthen their family security. They would also buy time to find an alternative food that would eventually replace pizza.

Its such a shame that the Libbies would rather see themselves starve than create their own pizza.