VLVL2 (4) "Whom are we working for, [Wheeler]?" (1 of 10)

[Terrance]

"Whom are we working for, Mason?" 

Dewey Conditions, Taylored Management, Reaganomics. 

The kids work for RC & Moonpie and local businessman Zoyd  Wheeler & His
Many and Multiplying Partners. 

Wheeler sells what the kids harvest to trendy restaurants who cater to
yuppies. 

Working for Zoyd Wheeler is Risky Business. 

Zoyd goes up to Vineland, where his skills, selling drugs and playing an
oversized organ, are not much in demand. He jumps through glass once a
year and collects a disability check. This job he contracted with Hector
Zuniga (DEA) and Brock Vond (DOJ). 
He's become something of a local celebrity, his window act is now being
broadcast out into larger towns and cities, he nearly made it onto Good
Morning America. So he's got name recognition and face value. Maybe next
year he will make it onto Good Morning America. Wheeler is, what Wall
Street people call, a Key Man. He's worth something and his potential
for generating profit in the local community is huge. Better get some
Key Man Insurance on him and replace that real glass with some fake TV
glass. 

He grew up in a union town, but he never joined a union. He worked odd
jobs, cleaning gutters, gigs in bars ... gypsy roofing and dealing drugs
... married a film maker- student whose family history reads like _Who
Built America_ and fathered one child. He cut a deal with Brock Vond and
Hector Zuniga to get out of town and stay away from his wife, Frenesi.
Frenesi, the mother of Wheeler's daughter,  is working for Brock Vond
too. Wheeler agrees to divorce her and to do some publicly crazy act
once a year and collect his disability check. (we should look at how
Hector's contract with Dr. Deeply is a double of Wheeler's contract with
Hector and BV). 


Doing Risky Business Un-Usual with Wheeler: 

Wheeler's first business transaction is the purchase of a dress. He
smokes a joint and goes looking for a dress that will good on the Tube.
He goes to the Mall. He pays for the dress with a check that both he and
the saleslady at More Is Less expect won't clear. I guess it's not
backed by the full faith and credit of the Unites States Treasury. Well,
that won't help Frenesi cash her government check. Will it? 
So the Mall will be out a few bucks. Big deal. Right? Too many Malls
around here anyway. 

He heads over to the Log Jam where he plans to cut the place up a bit
with a little elegant lady sized imported looking chain saw that he has
borrowed so as to piss off some of the local badasses who hang out there
after hard days of dangerous work. 

What? 

Why does this hippie who works for the DEA & DOJ want to piss off the
local badasses, the traditional workers who built this town (not to
mention America)? Maybe he wants to make them look bad on TV? Well,
Wheeler's other partners, some of them silent partners who are sucking
on the Government's Public Silicones indirectly and thus not obliged to
share the wealth with Wheeler, have rescheduled him for a gig at the
Cuke. And, the guys he wants to piss off are unemployed and can't afford
a beer and shot in the new Log Jam, let alone the German and Japanese
cars. 



I-24 wants to do business with Wheeler. With Prairie's help he tries to
sell Wheeler his business plan figuring Wheeler will help him secure
credit from the bank. Wheeler sets I-24 up with a mafia wedding gig
instead. Not bad work if you can get it. Wheeler can get it for you.
Wheeler has connections Hector only dreams of having. We will have to
wait and see if Wheeler takes I-24 up on his business proposal.