Here Kadizzle sits in our new home. This morning the NYT featured some homes you could buy for $880,000. This made Kadizzle reflect on the homes we have lived in. Our first home in Hazen sold for about $275,000. In other parts of the country it would have sold for 1.5 million or at least $800,000. Our current home in Payson seemed costly to us old misers, but again it is a bargain after Kadizzle saw what you had to pay for a home in the North East, or some other places. If you want sticker show look at the pathetic apartment you get in NYC for a million.
Poor people have been priced out of life, and the Republicans will not be happy until the peasants are enslaved. Reflecting on life Kadizzle realizes the virtues of a rural life. Never was there a hassle driving to work in North Dakota. When you live in a small town in a state with a small population the government is very accessible. You know and go to the chief of Police, the mayor, and even the highest elected officials.
Kadizzle will tell an old story. When we first moved to North Dakota a car dealer said in his ad on the radio that if you bought a car from him on a certain day you would get $100 of free gas. Kadizzle did not know about the ad on the radio and bought a car from that dealer. On the way home in the new car Kadizzle heard the ad. Kadizzle called the car dealer and said what about the free gas. The car dealer said " You made too good a deal, you don't get the gas". Kadizzle called the state attorney general, and got him on the phone. He said he would take care of it. In a day or two we got a check from the car dealer for the $100. Cannot imagine that happening in any other state. Kadizzle heard many times of people who called the governor and he answered the phone.
Kadizzle would never live in a large city. If there is something in a large city Kadizzle needs, he will drive there and then leave. We are about sixty miles from Phoenix. Rarely do we even get close. The traffic is insane, and the concept of road rage is in full bloom. Who needs that nonsense. Up here in our mountain home the population is less than 20,000. You can quickly get around by bike or car and the town has just about all you need.
One downside to the rural areas are the rednecks and Republicans. The other day Kadizzle started to have a go around with Jesus down at the Jesus thrift store. Jesus pulled out his phone and showed a map of the U.S. Most of it was colored red to show where the Republicans were. It was supposed to show Kadizzle that Republicans rightfully owned the country. Kadizzle pointed out to Jesus that the Republicans populated the areas with low education, high poverty, and were in states that sucked up welfare. Jesus did not understand that the blue on the map was smaller than the red, but the blue represented the people who sent checks to the red. The blue were the most educated productive people feeding technology to the Hoopleheads in the hinterland. If someone accidently gets smart in Hoopleville they move to the blue areas. Both daughters gave up on the backward thinking of North Dakota. Jesus is down at the thrift store busted flat and his ma is sitting there waiting for the Republicans to steal her social security. They love Trump and are pretty sure the real Jesus sent him.
This brings us to the Jehovah's down at the park. It was cold yesterday, but they were recruiting people to get on the heaven bus. As usual Kadizzle gave them grief about not voting. Old Jehovah came up with the same spiel that God will take care of everything, and they did not need to vote. Kadizzle explained what a cop out that line is. When Mrs. Kadizzle tells Kadizzle to do the dishes he says " Whatever God wills". Often God does not will Kadizzle to do the dishes or run the vacuum cleaner. Turning your life over to God is the most blessed excuse, you give up responsibility for everything. If the car runs out of gas it was God's will. No matter what you do you have no responsibility. Instead of doing something useful to help people the old Jehovah's are sitting there freezing their ass off trying to sell a membership to heaven. It seems a good God would will them to help some poor old lady with preparing for the cold weather. But apparently God willed them to sit in the cold with pamphlets.
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