Thursday, April 29, 2021

Urban Sprawl, Rural Poverty

Yesterday the Kadizzles drove to Phoenix, Scottsdale to be correct. What do you see when you drive in America?  You see some wonderful scenery, but also urban sprawl, and rural poverty.  Urban sprawl is insane. We experience it on the East Coast, Along the front of the Rockies, and of course around here. Then you have the rural junkyards and some Indian reservations are in pretty poor shape. America, good old America.  In Scottsdale at the airport there is nothing but a pile of private jets. Meanwhile the people who did not quite make it are living under the bridge. Poverty is an artificial construct. It always has been.  The old kings built castles while the peasants lived in shacks. Nothing has changed. Since the rich now move in jets why not let the roads and rails fall apart.  Why waste money on health care for the peasants when you need a new yacht? Buy yourself a congressman, and get yourself a few nice tax breaks. Why pay taxes at all? Most of the big corporations cheat and pay nothing. Needs some votes? Buy a Fox News and fill the Hoopleheads full of nonsense.  What a wonderful country. Then nicest thing is the lottery.  Everyone who wants to be rich merely has to go to the gas station and buy some lottery tickets. We are all going to be filthy rich, it is just a matter of time. So the best thing to do no matter how poor you are is to support all the benefits for the rich because someday you will be the one cheating the poor. Just be patient and vote for Trump if you get a chance. 

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