All this... and what are you doing about it?

All the attempts at enlightenment on the many recent threads concerning the Economy and Government have gone where?

Start at the local level and write your so called representatives. They are prostitutes and will lean with the noise. Or...?, vote the jerks out of office.

Personally, I have attended Council meetings, attended Town Hall meetings, hosted neighborhood strategy meetings and written my local jackasses and let them know my position and how I feel about some of their decisions.

If you are exclusively bitching about the way things should be on this Site without extending your thoughts where it may actually do some good is of no use.

This whole system is in the process of massive change. Pick any category that affects or impacts what you use to believe and throw it away. The thought that you are striving to make a better World for your children is a pipe dream. Their existence is going to be much different than the one we grew up in. It's going to be rough. I have no doubt.  The whole era of consumerism is unwinding before of eyes.

Am I a Doomer? Maybe. Those of you that may recall the tone of some of my previous posts know how I feel about getting back to the simple ways and preparing for what I consider an inevitable collapse of all the things we take for granted.

I have adopted a "No Regrets Policy". If I'm wrong about where I believe things are headed...so what. I am beginning to relish working the soil and living a life that reduces my impact on the limited resources available.  "Leave No Trace" is a slogan that my wife and I have adopted from our trips to the Great Smoky Mountains.

Learn the benefits of Composting. Buy some good sturdy shoes. And don't forget to get extra shoe laces. Sometimes it's the little things that count the most.



Grand Pa...tell us the story about how people use to fly around the World in metal tubes with wings...Yes, please Grand Pa.

Rant over.

Steve G

I'm with Steve... been saying the same thing for years around here.

My garden is getting ready to plant now. Shoes are about as sturdy as they make and maybe the old back ain't what it used to be, but it'll do... at least we'll eat around here.

Can't do a whole lot about the jackasses in DC (although they DO get letters letting them know what I think weekly), but the jackasses locally have NO doubt what I think about things and know there's another election just around the corner....

Hugs BD

The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton wrote:

It is not, however, my design to dwell upon observations of this nature. I am well aware that it would be disingenuous to resolve indiscriminately the opposition of any set of men (merely because their situations might subject them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views.

Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable--the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears.

So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.


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with warm regards,
Tony