The Earth Modul has landed. We are awake beside the lake. Last night the Kadizzles sat around the fire with the volunteers who live in our compound. Three new volunteers are here and we got to know each other. Our Forest Service boss and his wife sat with us and brouht us up to date since we left in the fall.
The Forest Service does the fire fighting for our country. Our location is acutally a fire fighting center for Arizona. Our old boss and our new one both were involved in fire fighting in California. All this got Kadizzle thinking in bed last night. At this very moment NPR is doing a little thing on how the Trump gang is trying to cut the budget for the National Parks. The Republican game of stirring up hate for the government has consequences. The general public has no real conception of what exactly the government does. Republicans portray the government as a bunch of people who get to work late and burn tax dollars all day to keep warm.
As Republicans destroy the government people will notice the country deteriaorate. Already you can see the roads and bridges starting to crumble. A good government is esential if you want airlines to work, if you want diseases to be under control, if you want food to be safe, if you want help when a disaster strikes. All of this cost something. Republicans believe tax cuts for the rich will solve all problems, so strarving the government to help the rich seems like a no brainer. When the results come in people will understand it just does not work.
Why do the rich need more? The New York Times asked this question. The simple truth is for the rich it is just power they want. They have the jet, the yacht, and the houses. Why would we want to give everyone with a million dollar income even more? It makes no sense and the rich who are decent like Warren Buffett admit they don’t need tax breaks, but that is the drug of choice for Republicans.
This comes full circle to our winter jobs. The Forest Service is trying to do more with less. So The Forest Service is tasked with putting out fires in their spare time. In additioin to putting out fires they are supposed to run thousands of camp sites, clean hundreds of thousands of out houses, maintain roads, trails, and rescue stranded idiots.
What do the Republicans want to do? Spend 21 billion for a useless wall. What could you do for Americans for 21 billion. You could make all the National Parks free, you could support so many projects that Americans actually enjoy, but no, the rich don’t use the National Parks, the rich don’t use the roads, the rich have different needs than the average Americans the rich need special things like larger yachts, and of course tax breaks.
In the end we will be working for free to save the goverment money so the government can give tax breaks to people who do not need them. A little depressing.
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