LET'S GET AMERICA BACK ON TRACK - REDNECK PHILOSOPHY FROM THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA

From an American friend :--

Woody:  What you just said moved me.  I am sending your thoughts to everyone along with mine - so they will need to read about 4 emails below. You know - after USAID kicked my ass out of Africa, I ended up working with an African American owned 8A firm for about 1.5 years. 

The first thing they told me was "We were against Segregation but the worst thing that ever happened to the Inner City (majority of Blacks in America) was Welfare"!! - Let's make it clear - I did not say this - these are Americans - African Americans who lived through Segregation and then saw what Welfare did to their families and friends - it broke up the nuclear family since the man could not be around for the woman to collect child support - not sure if this has been corrected or not??? 

The women started having more children to collect more child support money as a means of earning a living, and with no man around to discipline them what do you think happened to the majority of those kids.  Among other things they became caught up in this endless cycle of poverty - living off the System, their pride and dignity taken away - drugs, out-of-wedlock children, prison, poverty - and sure as Vincent Dabny told me - when I made it to the middleclass - that is out of the Inner City into Suburbia it was like taking a weight off my shoulder, but sadly we who escape the Inner City rarely look back and try to help others escape the Welfare Trap of the Inner City.  

Caught in this poverty trap they become dependent upon the "System" - the majority on welfare regardless of race or creed vote Democrat since the Dems like giving handouts.  As our Middleclass disappears and descends into poverty you have a compliant society that the System can control and manipulate - even be used as canon fodder by the politicians in their overseas exploits.

 

Now I come to "Foreign Aid" - nothing more than "Global Welfare" and what it has done to Africa - made them dependent upon handouts from USAID, IMF, World Bank, DFID, CIDA, etc., etc. taken away the pride and dignity of these countries - making these countries and a small elite that run them compliant to the System - but not necessarily the people since for the moment the majority of the people don't live off the System in Africa - they live subsistence lives in parallel economies - though poor in material terms they are in many ways wealthier in their freedom from the System than anyone in the Western World. 

They also have strong extended family support networks that help to buffer this poverty so they can at least survive.  A few - mainly functionaries are the compliant ones doing the bidding of a small elite linked into the Global elite.  I don't think this is sustainable and as in the Arab World, there will be "African Springs" as the young people will no longer tolerate living in poverty in one of the resource richest regions of the World.

 

In closing, I remember hunting near Mahina Mine along the Faleme River where Senegal, Guinea and Mali join. I hunted with Wali Samurhaï, a great Mandingo hunter - maybe the best hunter I ever had the privilege to be with. Normally I would disappear into the bush every year for about 2 weeks with Wali and I usually tried for just one nice trophy. Well this time I cleaned up - a roan, singsing waterbuck, kob. The 2 weeks came to an end and I said to Wali that I had to leave. Incredulously, he said "leave, why leave, we are having a great time hunting let's keep it up"! I explained I had a job, a boss, had to collect a paycheck and then it hit me, "I'm the slave and Wali - Wali is the freeman". 

He may not have had much in the way of material wealth, but he had one of the most precious commodities in the World - he owed his life to only two beings if I can call them that - God and Mother Nature. Yes, I was the Slave and he was the Free Man. Anyway - that's how I see it and as much as possible - with great difficulty - I am trying to keep free of the System. 

You see the poor they trap with welfare, while the educated - they push them into Intellectual Prostitution to support the agenda of the System regardless of the consequence to mankind or the environment. When I worked for an engineering firm - they didn't want someone single and free - they wanted house payments, car payments, wife payments, child payments and then they knew - they had an Institutionalized "Slave" - so I, like a number of you, am one of "The Men That Don't Fit In" by Robert William Service :

 

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.

They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;

Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
 
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.

And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
 
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.

 

There are 3  more emails below to explain the above - especially Woody's explanation of his childhood!

 

Regards 

XYZ

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Thanks you are saying what I was trying to say with more correctness.  It has been the blue collar worker that made America Proud to say Made in America.  I can remember when my dad would not buy a wrench for the farm or anything that was not made in America.  

My dad had a six grade education along with a degree that said I survived the depression with nine other brothers and sisters.  He was share cropping cotton with his brother and a black guy his age at 16 according to him and they got a furnish as they called it but it was a loan then planted about 10 acres with a mule or two and made enough to survive and all ended with good lives and families.  

There was no hand up just sweat and he made it and worked for himself on the farm and cutting timber his entire life.  That's what made America great along with his brothers who also farmed after fighting in the Pacific and the European theaters.  Lots of sacrifice but they all were strong American Citizens.  They made America proud by giving my family and my cousins strong work ethics and educations they did not get.  Believe it or not they were Democrats in those days.

 

Personally I like the flat tax for everyone and then business would have to have the incentives to keep jobs in America.  Unions should see both sides and it be a team effort to keep jobs in America.

 

These Democrats showed up at the house yesterday trying to get a handout...I gave in and so they are happy politians now.

 

Woody