| I drive a Kubota. I really, really like my tractor builder, and servicer. And those folks that provide Dickie's work clothes. Those are the best. I do understand. the neighbor at the top of my hill sewed clothes for Lee for minimum wage. I know not only how, but by who, my pants get made. Me neighbors who feel most blessed work for WalMart. They are the big employer that pays the best and gives the most security. Maybe it is being raised by a father who was raised by dirt-farmers. Who peddled vegetables in the depression, then went to WWII, then with his intellect became a petroleum engineer, but never quit planting tomatoes in the backyard no matter what city we lived in. He drummed it into me. If we lose the farms, we lose our independance. And reading our founders has done nothing but reinforce that feeling. And the corporations can grow some cheap stuff and a lot of stuff. I don't want to knock them on that. But if we lose the ability to provide our own, without a threat from an individual company, or a govt., we're in trouble. You make my clothes, I'll grow you some tomatoes. That's a balance. It's not like I wanna go naked in the southern sun with my Irish skin. |
