Are you jumping? What is this cliff we're leaning over? Is it rhetoric? Is it new? Are we just going back to what was? To me this all seems more like a mountain than a cliff. Everyone seems to be so "carey" and "concerney". Are we sure we're not all dumb and thoughtless?
I don't profess to know or understand much. I can't understand all the financial wizardry that is continually redefined and re-finagled. So I par down governmental situations to a level I can't understand.
One example of this mountain I may look at, is the wayside rest area. "You're crazy" you may say "Who's still reading my blog?" I say. A family is traveling to Duluth and little Jimmy gets sick, grandma had too much coffee and sister Louise's gold fish exploded in the heat. Of course, in America, it's our right to have an area to rest in on the way. Hence, the wayside rest was born. A little wood shack to take care of the necessary pitfalls of life. Sure, none of us mind since towns are sparse and nature seems to bid us to it's calling. "Build away", we say, and build they do.....and never stop. What now?
Heading back to Minneapolis/St. Paul, we are two miles from all the places of commerce you could ever imagine. We pull into the biggest palatial resting "vendtropolis" area this side of Atlantis. I breath a sigh of disturbance. How many full time jobs, benefits and pensions are needed to maintain such luxury? How about the cost of land, maintenance, utilities, and new projects being dreamed up.....for what? Nothing is created or gained. This is all being paid for by taxes that aren't being generated because commerce is being refused. No one has a need to stop and do this commerce thing in a town two miles away because everyone is stopping at the irrational extravaganza. This is just one example.
It is.....it's a mountain. Why do we climb it....because it's there? The jump from the cliff may be less hazardes than the climb up the mountain.
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