Ever notice that all this free shit never materializes. Just remember that You cannot be a "good cargo cultist" and still be a member of the shrinking Middle class. You must sit on your beach and have faith that the promised goods will one day arrive on a fleet of white ships and you will live happily ever after with all that cargo they bring...On the big rock candy mountain, all the bulldogs they got rubber teeth... there's a lake of gin, you can all jump in, and the lemonade springs, Etc...
Just kiss off ever being a member of the middle class...kiss off ever being a responsible, hard working and secure member of the human race...
Oh Hell, go have a good time at JUCO, major in cargo...but don't ever graduate.
Hey, I remember doing that!
We did not have much when growing up in central Iowa and I can clearly recall putting bread wrappers over my shoes to walk to Lincoln grade school when it was snowing or raining. I do not remember if it was My Mother's idea, or My own, but it kept My shoes and feet dry for the sloppy trudge to school.
It also brings to mind an item of gear used by many participants in Ragbrai (Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa)...a large garbage bag. If it started to rain you just put the thing over your head and poke a hole in the top to put your head through, two more for each arm and it's absolutely amazing how dry a body stays, even in a cloudburst. It saves a lot of weight in your bike bag then just throw it in the nearest trash receptacle when your need has past. Elegant and frugal solution to your problem.
I'm not sure today as to what the reaction would be today if your child were to present at school with bread wrappers on their feet. The biddies would probably call in Social Services and more biddy reinforcements to ponder if some form of child abuse was occurring. They just can't seem to keep their noses out of other people's rectums or mind other peoples elegant solutions or business.
Anyway, I was tickled to Learn that Joni Ernst, Iowa's newly elected Junior Senator, also used bread wrappers on her feet. This leads Me to hope that that she might be capable of coming up with elegant and frugal solutions to problems on a Federal level. Of course, Joni will probably take a lot of shit from the biddies in Washington and their biddie toadies in the press. I would prefer elegant and frugal over a new...say cabinet level "Department of Children's Foots" with a budget of billions and many hundreds of new bureaucrats, when bread wrappers and garbage bags would do.
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