GT... your assumption that I am a zero emissions type of person is wrong.... I have multiple snowmobiles, atv's, half a dozen diesel tractors, fishing boat and drive a gas F150 to get my groceries. We used to plow our fields with a tracked bulldozer. I run my boilers on wood I cut myself and heat my outdoor pool to 90 degrees with wood. If I could I would use coal but it is being banned here.
I have worked in agriculture all my life and have worked and lived in E. Europe, S.E. Asia, the U.S. and in Canada.
That being said I am also a realist and see what is happening all around me. Kids in school are being trained to be "woke", our politicians are getting younger and younger and seem to forget what its like to struggle for basics, I watched the Super Bowl and I think 100% of the car adds were for electric vehicles, etc....
I am an old salmon and just don't have the energy anymore to fight the onslaught current.
So I would say I am a realist not a environmentalist or zero emissions kinda guy. So for me I no longer care what they do as I have 0 ability to make any change. I hope to get another 15 years out of this body. But I do fear for the younger generation and doubt life will be as good or as easy as I had.
Cheers my friend.. .stay well.
btw: yesterday 4 people in the protest at Couts were arrested for plotting to kill RCMP members (our federal police force that we have cause we have such a big country but so few people that many jurisdictions just cannt afford their own forces). Plans, guns, body armour, ammunition all found in their trailers on the line. So maybe just maybe not all were their for the right reason.
Glad my little slice of heaven is mine as I don't share well with others these days.
That slice isn’t really yours… it’s only under your care until you leave it. And we ALL leave.
In fact you do share it sir, every day that you pay Sales tax, property tax, and school tax to the controlling members of our society that tell us how much and where to send the check. Yes and we do… lest we loose that little slice of heaven that we temporarily manage ultimately for the purposes of maintaining their income stream. The same income stream that’s routinely misused and abused by any number of pick pockets along its way to our great infrastructure management system. The same Sysyem that’s been funded and yet not maintained for the last 60 years of voting in and out of office hundreds of thousands of folks that are indeed there to do for us what the last guy didn’t…. It’s a merry go round of pork for everyone, and regulation that tightens the rope around us more for every dollar we give them to ease those ropes just a bit…
I used to think that people that took care of their properties were astute, concerned, and proud members of the community. I thought they did so because it meant something to them and to those around them. And then as I have aged, I’ve seen homes that used to be beautifully maintained fall into weedy disrepair. Sometimes it’s a cycle, sometimes it’s out of despair.
In any case it seems there is always that possibility, of everything we work hard at, to fall by the wayside, whether it’s a perfectly groomed lawn or home, or quite frankly
anything we say we own.
The Government that used to be there “for” us, is movin’ on up!
In the 90’s they became the government that was “with” us, and today, sadly to say… it’s seems now that it’s the government against us.
Those slippery slopes we ride every single day all but decrease our autonomy over our individual lives, rights, and even our families.
We don’t control money by the gold standard anymore, it’s controlled by the fed (big government), so any money we scrape and work hard on setting aside for 20 or 30 years languishes in inflationary spending tactics that opens our personal coffers for things like “Guaranteed, free, no strings attached, income checks” for some of us… oh, and who chooses those few people that take part in such holistic means of being Robinhood while sacking the savings of the 30% of Americans that have actually given up lots of stuff in life to save for their possible retirement? The Government chooses.
We can’t even “give” to our choice of needy any longer. That decision is made by bureaucrats. Both the “Who” and “How much” is automatically pulled from our life savings via inflationary spending by the very people that “tell us” we voted them into office. Did we?
But I digress …
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