I promised angry_biscuit I would try to contribute something on agriculture to this forum, and just by grand coincidence, it happens to be the day after Earth Day
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Apologies for taking so long to reply. This got buried in my inbox the week I posted this, I think, and I just ran across it again.
If I could grow something, I would - but I've had a black thumb for 30-some-odd years, and the few times I've attempted to overcome it with studious application of seed and soil and water, it's ended in disaster. About all I could do for sustainable veggies is to trade fanfiction to someone who knows how to grow and likes to read, LOL.
We live in Illinois. Rockford used to be one of the biggest cities for factories and manufacturing jobs. It is like a ghost town anymore.
Indiana has some of those problems, too, though our governor likes to say we're better off than Illinois (I don't know how true that is, only having lived here a little over a year). But I know the situation in Missouri isn't much better, either. Fortunately, Dad retired from the auto business before things went down as far as they did - had he stayed, I'm not sure he'd have a job on the assembly line now.
My friend Dee likes to point out that factories and companies that have been around forever and are beginning to fracture or crumble, if you look at them it's because most are no longer run by family or direct descendents who understand the philosophy of the company's beginning - such a company anymore is run by hired hands, non-family, who only want to get in, collect a huge salary and immediate profit shares/bonus, and then get out and move on to the next easy target. I believe if I were hiring for a CEO and someone presented me with Harvard or Yale MBA credentials, I'd kick their ass so hard they'd land in China when they fell. To me, those degrees are worth much less than the sheepskin on which they're printed.
Time to wake up America, we are going to be a third world country dependent on other nations for everything at this rate and unable to afford the basic life necessities.
You got it. I'm tired of hearing how economically "strong" we still are when common sense and eyes tell me otherwise. Recently there was an admission by the government that some job loss figures weren't accurate here and there over the past few years - in favor of showing fewer people had lost jobs or gotten jobs than touted. Well, DUH - I've been saying that for years, just by virtue of knowing so many people who were out of work, as well as being one of those very people for several years, living on temp jobs and no insurance. I shudder to think what we're going to be like in 50 years if things keep going the way they are.
If I could grow something, I would - but I've had a black thumb for 30-some-odd years, and the few times I've attempted to overcome it with studious application of seed and soil and water, it's ended in disaster. About all I could do for sustainable veggies is to trade fanfiction to someone who knows how to grow and likes to read, LOL.
We live in Illinois. Rockford used to be one of the biggest cities for factories and manufacturing jobs. It is like a ghost town anymore.
Indiana has some of those problems, too, though our governor likes to say we're better off than Illinois (I don't know how true that is, only having lived here a little over a year). But I know the situation in Missouri isn't much better, either. Fortunately, Dad retired from the auto business before things went down as far as they did - had he stayed, I'm not sure he'd have a job on the assembly line now.
My friend Dee likes to point out that factories and companies that have been around forever and are beginning to fracture or crumble, if you look at them it's because most are no longer run by family or direct descendents who understand the philosophy of the company's beginning - such a company anymore is run by hired hands, non-family, who only want to get in, collect a huge salary and immediate profit shares/bonus, and then get out and move on to the next easy target. I believe if I were hiring for a CEO and someone presented me with Harvard or Yale MBA credentials, I'd kick their ass so hard they'd land in China when they fell. To me, those degrees are worth much less than the sheepskin on which they're printed.
Time to wake up America, we are going to be a third world country dependent on other nations for everything at this rate and unable to afford the basic life necessities.
You got it. I'm tired of hearing how economically "strong" we still are when common sense and eyes tell me otherwise. Recently there was an admission by the government that some job loss figures weren't accurate here and there over the past few years - in favor of showing fewer people had lost jobs or gotten jobs than touted. Well, DUH - I've been saying that for years, just by virtue of knowing so many people who were out of work, as well as being one of those very people for several years, living on temp jobs and no insurance. I shudder to think what we're going to be like in 50 years if things keep going the way they are.
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