What about the societies of elitists like the Bilderbergs or the infamous Illuminati? Some claim they are the puppet masters controlling elections and deciding who gets to run the world's political empires. While there is enormous evidence of this fact and indeed members of the Bilderbergers have actually said they exist to lift up or take down the planet's movers and shakers they are not the most powerful people on earth.
What about gender? Is the man, with his superior physical strength and emotional steadiness the most powerful person on earth? Hardly. The vast majority of men can be easily bested by a woman by simple hormone manipulation via gestures and subtle suggestions. Now that's real power! Just ask Samson.
No, neither the woman nor the man is the most powerful person in America. The person (or category of persons) we are referring to, if gone, would cause nearly all fossil-fuel driven vehicles to stop in a week. Grocery stores would run out of food in thirty days or less. In six months time, depending on the time of year when it begins, millions of people around the world would either die from heat exhaustion or freeze to death because of the relatively few people who know how to survive without turning on a switch to get heat or air conditioning.
If this person disappears it would be like a bad episode of LOST within 12 months. People would have to grow their own food, rely on the good nature of others, or pillage in order to survive. Disease would run rampant due to filth that would build up from garbage piling up on the streets. Death would be everywhere.
In forty eight months western society would be reduced to the status of cavemen banging on rocks - all because a category of person walked away. Look around you. The only thing you see that was not delivered by a truck driver are babies. Everything else, in full or in it's various components was at one point in time on a truck. If the truck driver walked away today it would absolutely devastate the western world. Take away everyone who knows how to drive one and anyone who could ever teach that skill and your way of life and mine vanishes. There is nothing to take its place. What takes a truck driver two days to do takes a train two months or more - and that mode of transportation is only doing a portion of it now. No perishable food can travel by train and they are notoriously unreliable. They serve a need right now but without trucks delivering fuel and parts to the railroads they all come to a grinding halt. Besides - when did you ever see a rail line go past a grocery store? 
They are the unsung hero's of modern society. They are the guys and gals who haul your laundry soap and your babies' diapers. They haul your Budweiser and your flat-screen televisions. Every nail and every stick of wood in your home; every door knob and every brick was, at one time, on a truck. The cough medicine you give your children at bed time or the antibiotics keeping your loved-one alive was, you guessed it, on a truck at one stage or another. When you throw out your garbage at night and it has left the curb in the morning it was not ferried away by unicorns, it was hauled away on a truck.
So the next time you pass a truck driver give him or her a wave instead of a finger. Give them lots of space instead of cutting them off to get ahead. You are dealing with someone doing one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. You are dealing with a profession that could shut down life as you know it in as little as seven days. You are dealing with the most powerful person in America. To the truck drivers of America and around the world - we salute you.
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