Farm View of the World thru the quarter moon

Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back - Bobby Bare

Now it was not a castle fair but I could dream of future there, an build my castle to the yellow jackets drone. I could orbit round the sun, fight with General Washington. Or be a king upon a golden throne.

•  Indeed my cousins Wade, Dick & Becky of Smithville had one. I always wondered what the varmints in the bottom were.
  
  
• Drug Testing - I believe it is proper and wise to drug test those persons that receive government money for having done nothing, doing nothing and expected to do nothing. I.e. welfare, WIC, and all the other myriad of programs that have the same basics. Flunking the drug test would result in a two strikes and you're out.
  
  
• Free Stuff - Frequently listed under "rights". I do not believe every citizen has a right to be provided a Cell Phone, TV, etc. Having traveled all over the world and living in other countries long enough to get a small understanding of what goes on there, "Rights" have a very different meaning.
  
  
• You do not have a "Right" to free medical care. I believe this country, when its prosperous, should provide basic medical care for even the poorest citizen. Dopers, free loaders, and the like should not be in the hospital Emergency Rooms as their source of medical care. Discrimination is appropriate, except for emergencies, of course. You do not have the "Right" to a free education. You do not have the right to TWO seats on an airplane when you bought the right to ride in one seat. You did not buy transportation from one place to another no matter what your cost to the transportation provider.
  
  You have the "Right" to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
  
  
• I support the creation of community boards to review random samples of welfare claims with the mission of weeding out the phony. Summons for this could be the same as Jury duty. I'd even like handicapped stickers in there somewhere.
  
  
• College - Everyone does not need a college degree to be successful. Just getting a "degree" does not insure success. Remember the "underwater basket weaving" degrees of my age? A degree in Philosophy, sociology, and Psychology does what after graduation day? Then there is "Art History" and "English Literature". Please outline a career path for either and send an email. "Art Appreciation" is OK if your family is Vanderbilt or Gates.
  
  An equal time spent being an apprentices in Air Conditioning/Heating (HAVC), plumbing will provide a person with a career. People just are not doing the apprenticeship time to get qualified to be on their own. And, I doubt that Air conditioning is going to be replaced real soon.
  
  Special Education Teachers should be in greater demand. I mean in positions where you are not a baby sitter to "mainstream", wheelchair, full-time assisted in life's daily challenges, students. Why? Because we are no longer putting them in a "home" and forgetting they (some) may have potential. However, a country in decline, may not be able to afford such things in the future.
  
  In fact, real teachers should be in high demand with good salaries. Not talking about the "unionized" mess of today. System to grade, evaluate....yes, I mean really evaluate teaching skills and subject knowledge. Keep the good ones and sack the bad ones. I know its easier to talk about than to do it.
  
  
• Repatriation: Saying you are sorry for and giving money to Black folks because some Indians, Chinese, black folks were slaves a long time ago. How absurd. I didn't own or rent any Blacks and none of the Blacks in the US were ever slaves of an American citizen. The Germans don't pay the Jews. The Japanese don't pay the Chinese. No-one pays the Okinawa's (and they be run over by everyone).  This is just another Jesse Jackson con. More something for nothing. The really stupid part is that some sane white/black/maroon folks are going along with this nonsense.
  
  
•  Public funding of "The Arts". If the Boston Symphony cannot be self sustaining or make money, it should be downsized to the point it does. The idea that Art is a key element of a modern society may have some merit. However, creating that out of public money does not make the society modern. The opera, the symphony, the Theater, etc is not attended by a majority of the population. Course getting tax proposals passed that do that does not speak well of the electorate either. The people that believe Art is a necessity to life are wrong. Its not. Good to have but when the belt gets tight, that is one that needs to go first. There are actually a lot of these type expenses that need to go during hard times. Or at least no be on the Public Dole.
  
• Coal, Natural Gas, Oil, Nuclear...... Electricity
• Coal is dirty
• Oil is dirty
• Nuclear is dangerous
• Natural Gas - no condemnation yet.
  
  As we go about shutting down nuclear plants, running the coal companies out of business, shutting down oil production. Where exactly is the electricity going to come from to power your house, your job, your car, your stuff. Our stuff. The countries stuff???? Where? If you choose solar or wind, where is the nearest power plant for your area?
  
  
•  Traumatized: A traumatic event involves a single experience, or an enduring or repeating event or events, that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to cope or integrate the ideas and emotions involved with that experience.
•  Were you ever traumatized? and how has that effected the rest of your life.?
• I went thru a war and wasn't traumatized. 
• Being told, in a loud military voice, that you did wrong entering litigation against your mother for a bank account in her name is WRONG, REALLY WRONG. Some were traumatized so they tell me. I don't think anyone wins.