Why bother responding to ignorant leftist rantings. The lady you talked with was probably a black person who blames all their troubles on white people. And, no offense, but how can we expect respect from people who, if left to their own devices, build places like Rwanda and Zimbabwe?
Pretty place to visit, hard place to make a living.
I miss the people (native Mainahs). The transplants from Boston? Not so much.
I am the grandaughter of migrant California farm workers who moved from Oklahoma during the dust bowl. My mother was born in 1933. Her parents struggled to put food on the table, but she’s still alive and I’m here as well as millions of other children of children of the Depression. Poverty doesn’t have to KILL you. Sometimes, it forces you to revise your life and move forward in whatever way you can.
I get so frustrated when we act like we have to save dying urban areas like Detroit and other big cities across the country that are failing. We have literally millions of small towns across this great country that have been struggling for years in rural America filled with poor people who work hard, live within their means and make do. We also have thousands of ‘ghost towns’ where people did what had to be done when the work was gone. Pick up and move on. Why do people think that’s no longer a possibility?
I was watching 20/20 last Friday night and they were covering these people living in Florida who were having trouble making their payments on their homes and were in foreclosure. This former hedge fund manager was delivering pizzas. Why couldn’t they move? “Oh we don’t want to take our kids out of their school...” Well, no, that would be too bad, but it’s not the end of the world. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, and that includes MOVING.
No, now, we have people living in homeless shelters in Los Angeles because they lost their jobs and they got kicked out of their apartments. They used up all their savings living in a hotel in LA. Hey! Get a bus ticket, or a plane ticket and find a job some place else! I just don’t understand what happened to the notion that you went where the work was. Oh wait...now I remember. Welfare. No welfare during the depression. Now, welfare keeps people where there are no jobs and no prospect for jobs. And we pay to keep them there.
What a world, what a world...