The margin is thin

Recently Kadizzle remarked in a letter to the Bismarck Tribune that the United States was in danger of becoming a third world country.  After touring Pensacola, Florida today it looks like the margin is very thin. The ramshackle poverty in the southern U.S. is widespread.  Kadizzle used to marvel at some of the messes he saw in South America, but you could substitute too many  communities in the south in a picture and you would never know the difference.

It is inconceivable that our country would build a 21 billion dollar wall, spend so much money on military nonsense, and give more money to the rich when so many have so little right here.  The sad thing is so many in our country don't travel enough to know what a mess the country is.  Ned and Kadizzle will travel four thousand miles in 12 days across the south. The shot up, run down, junk infested mess is like a cancer on our country.  Those with money fly over the mess, drive around the mess, or simply never see it.  As a country we have wasted so much, and piling garbage everywhere has become a way of life. Junk cars, billboards, and the detritus of prosperity has stained the place we live.

Kadizzle has had battles with the commission in the city of Hazen about the slumming that goes on there, but the Hazen slummers are armatures compared to their warm climate friends.  When the oil boom broke out in North Dakota the southerners rolled in.  Kadizzle was mystified about why they parked in the yard, on the sidewalk or with no regard to the zoning laws.  Seeing their home base explains it all.  Zoning and ordinances don't exist in the south.  If you can park or pile it, you can keep it anywhere on your property.  So as usual you have the haves, and the have not's.  Trump wants the have's to have more, and the have not's to have less.  Waking up the Hoopleheads seems impossible, but Alabama has given people hope.