Odd how those "save the planet" folks don't seem to understand where their >> food comes from. Even vegetables are farmed.
I keep saying there is a real divide between cityfolks and ruralfolks which is >gonna ruin the former quite badly.
It is happening here, too. I partly blame education methods. When we were young, we learned about the importance of farming and other activities that went on outside the city. We even took field trips to a farm to learn
where our milk comes from.
I don't know what they teach them now, but whatever it is it makes the
divide worse.
Cityfolks have lots of city problems that may grant city solutions. Then they >vote and impose city solutions on everybody.
Indeed. The leadership in the city I grew up in, the same one where we
used to visit farms, really started treating the rest of the state (mostly rural) like their dumb little brothers who need to learn to "do things like
we do." Luckily, the capital is in a small town and they won't put up with most of it.
At one point they wanted to apply a toll for entering big towns as a means to >prevent cities from being flooded by traffic. I guess that would destroy my >social life because I only have extra-professional social activities once per >week by going down to the city. The beauty of this idiocy is that revenge is so
easy because freight from rural regions would be taxed and the price of food at
cities' supermarket would skyrocket.
That sounds like a typical dumb politician idea. I am shocked the big city here didn't think of that. Oh, wait, they sort of did. At various times, they've tried imposing extra taxes, fees, etc., without representation, on people who don't live there but do work there and, in some cases, people
who merely lived in surrounding counties but didn't work in their city.
The courts would eventually stop them.
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