Posted by Goose on July 20, 2008 at 11:50:59 from (199.184.119.22):
In Reply to: We're in trouble posted by Massey Harris Steve on July 20, 2008 at 06:41:13:
A friend of mine, who's a civil engineer, told a story about a Nebraska Cornhusker football player who got a summer job on construction.
They were framing a building, and the first thing someone had to do was teach him how to drive a nail with a hammer. Then when he sort of got the hang of driving nails, someone had to tell him where to drive each one. He lasted about two days. Guess they could have just had him carry lumber around, but they probably would have taken a day explaining what a 2X4 was.
This isn't new, however. When I was about ten years old on the farm, a neighbor had relatives visit from New Jersey. The relatives included a 12 year old girl. The neighbors had no livestock, and when the relatives visited our place we were milking cows. The gal very haughtily said she wouldn't think of drinking cows milk, she drank only milkman's milk.
I, too, noticed the contrast between the people in eastern Iowa who simply dug in and did what they needed to do to survive, and the people in "Nawlins" who sat on their butts whining because the government wasn't doing enough for them.
There was one fellow in New Orleans who, when interviewed on camera by a TV reporter who asked what he intended to do next, pointed with his arm and said, "See that road? I'm going to start walking down it and see where I wind up."
Him I liked. At least he intended to do something on his own.
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