I was looking at a rich guy in my world who really should know better, as he spent about a million dollars on a new home he has been building the past few years.
Frankly, it is not so much he built the place overlooking a field with no view, or that it is this ugly rust brown color with I think green shingles or something......I don't really look at it that much as I'm more interested in the idiotry of it all.
For some reason this dolt put in a curved drive and then planted this overgrown shelter belt next to it.
Those who have rural knowledge now will be thinking in the south about trees scratching up your car as your drive through and those damn mosquitoes lurking there in the summer.
For the northern tier they will be thinking about all that damn snow blowing into that driveway and plugging it with a 15 foot high drift.
Why in world people do such stupid things is beyond me, but then I see a great many college professors without a clue in their urban world in what really makes this world go around. The rube and the hick when it comes to common sense is a genius, as they are the people who have to bust their butts in dealing with weather, insects and jobs to get to on their own accord.....while the city dwellers have elected people taking care of such things, and if a garden gets ate, you just go to the market.
One of my favorite things in life was being around rural people in watching "vacationers" come along and start lecturing the locals about how things should be done. You can just see the thousand yard stare in the rural people, in being polite, and thinking, "Yeah you go do that dumb ass thing you just said.....might get you killed or it might cost you a fortune, but it is your life and your money, so enjoy".
Rural Americans if you treat them with respect will tell you all sorts of things to keep you out of harms way, but you have to listen to them, as they do it in code.
In New England it might be "mind the water", meaning don't camp close to that river.
In the Ozarks it might be, "mind the rocks", as the rocks unleash on the roads in times of warming and cooling due to moisture.
On the plains, it might be, "mind the weather", as the weather there will kill you.
The locals all know these things, because the locals who did not keep watch over things ended up in a cemetery.
You never see a rural person ever get near anything that is moving whether it is a horse's hind end or a car, as they know things always belt the heck out of you. Yet you will see these vacationers slapping horses on the rear or thinking a truck stops on dime as they wave at it.
In Colorado range country, the recreationists are forever pissing off the ranchers in driving around honking at cows to get out of the way.....never figuring out that the ranchers blow horns on their trucks to get the cows to come to them for feed.
There is so much knowledge in rural America in immense quantities of thee most intricate things which are life vital in each region. I can predict the weather better than NOAH just by looking out my window and knowing how the land "looks", meaning the rise and fall of it.
I remember telling my Uncle once that it was going to snow, and quite a bit, maybe 6 inches one Christmas, just by looking out my window in how the land was rising on that day.
I was right and the weather people had no idea of snow.
I'm not saying that rural people are superior, as they have their heads up their rectums more times than not too, as it is a human condition.
What I'm saying though is if you want to build a rocket, a city person is probably the place to go to get the job done......but if you want to know why you don't build a million dollar home in a river bottom because it is pretty, you should look at why the locals are all up on hills and not in flood plains.
It certainly would help in insurance rates for everyone now would it not?
The problem is America is a majority of sophisticates. It doesn't matter if it is about whoring, about insurance, about unemployment, about hiring some illegal, about cheating on whatever you can dream up, but the reality is America is broken, because of immoral actions in the majority all thinking someone else is going to pay the bill.
Build that million dollar home in a lake bottom and it is either FEMA or an insurance company paying for it, and that money is coming from Americans who pay taxes or premiums who are not stupidly building under water, because they can not afford it in the first place.
The love of money is the root of all evil, but it is money which sprouts that evil in a seed tray, because if people had to be worried about eating, where they would sleep and having enough energy to work a job, all this other breakdown of society would not be paid for on some other person's back.
America is a place where other people's money pays for the stupidity of others and it enables people to make thee most destructive of choices to harm themselves.
A stupid rural person doesn't bag up their flour and it is 20 bucks to pay for the mice sh*t in the dough. A stupid urban person doesn't find or create a job, and it is 20, 000 being paid to them.
Cities concentrate problems of financial sin, and this seep is polluting the rural areas as all that money from cities is finding cheap things in areas where poor rural people can not afford now to live.
Put stupidity loose in a power center like Washington and New York and you have the 2008 Obama Super Depression, as it just builds and keeps eating away the foundation of civilization by the vast majority now having someone else pay their bills.
I was listening to an old timer a few years ago, talking about welfare in the 1930's. There was one local woman who would go in and beg from the county for some money. It was an hours long job, as the guy handing out funds was as tight as drum in rationing things.
She had to go through this every month in begging for something......the lesson being that it was not easy, was not sure, and the point being maybe it would be better to find some income, instead of having to invest all that time begging.
I have spoken of this before and it is the best of lessons in Davey Crockett explaining why America should not be in this racket it is in.
Here is part of the entire quote:
My papers say that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. Is that true?"
"'Well, my friend, I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just as I did.'
"'It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the treasury no more money than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.
"'What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how many thousands are worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000.
"'If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other.
Americans once knew of these things, but have now become a nation of sophisticates. They are too involved in having others now funding their immorality. It literally is paying to be stupid.That makes me sad as it is ruining good people in the rural and urban areas. Judgment will come in a bill will be extracted, as this generation has scraped the coffins of our unborn to live today for an existence the children will be in bondage to next year.
There really is nothing wrong with stupid actions hurting people immediately, as it keeps them from damaging themselves worse in the future......in knowing someone else is going to be paying for that sin as we all trod down to sodom.
agtG
Davy Crockett's Speech
