Working for free is a very intensive process

Kadizzle is almost 66 years old.  During the course of his life he has worked many different jobs.  None has required more paperwork or time than volunteering to work for free for The Forest Service.  Not just anyone can work for free.  Nope, you have to have a background check to volunteer.  You have to take a defensive driving course, and take two paper test, one for a regular pickup, and another for a four wheel drive pickup.  Good thing Kadizzle took the test after he has been driving four wheel drive vehicles as part of his job for over forty years.  Naturally all of this is not enough, one must also pass an actual behind the wheel test.

This just scratches the surface.  Multiple forms must be filled out and signed by multiple people.  So far the process has been in process for over a month.  If god is willing and the creeks do not rise there is a good chance the Kadizzles will actually be able to work tomorrow.

The Kadizzle crew will be doing trail work.  Trail work will be anything from removing brush to documenting problems on the trails with washouts.  Since we do a lot of hiking it will work out well.  In exchange for our good deeds we will get a campsite with electricity, water, and sewer, a pair of gloves and a hat.

The whole process got the gears in Kadizzles mind churning.  Many people live their lives thinking about the so called welfare cheats that abuse the government.  Few people think about the people who are just the opposite of welfare cheats.  Billions of dollars in donated work has been done for everyone by volunteers The United States Government.  Yesterday Kadizzle walked into the Forest Service shop.  It was Sunday.  A man was there welding for free for The Forest Service.  In a conversation with the man he said he was a boiler maker.  The Forest Service needed a steel container for a set of portable outhouses.  It was a big project, and this man was working free on Sunday to do it.  If the tax payers had to pay this man the wage he would normally make with benefits on a Sunday, the sum would come to well over $60 per hour.  

As we travel we see middle class and poor people doing work for free for The United States Government.  Many of these people are getting social security, some type of disability payment, or some government subsidy.   These people are not welfare cheats, they are heroes.  We have one friend who is very wealthy. He is 80 years old, but he chooses to work very hard everyday for free cleaning up the mess inconsiderate people make at one of the parks on the Salt River Project.