Replies to post #331937 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[hap0206]

nwsun ( MT is my home so I have seen lots of NW sun )

my guess (nothing on your profile) is that you have been indoctrinated into the socialist party

what the USA has, and what every other country I know does not have, is complete access to every avenue of success for every citizen

Obama, Hill/Bill, McCain, Pelosi, Reed, Rice, Buffet, Gates, et al, can attest

and I, born in the hills of western MT, no electricity, no inside plumbing, telephone, nothing for the first 12 years -- married in 1950, (she sits beside me as I type) -- 30 years in Kalispell, 4 in Los Angeles, 3 in Puerto Rico, 31 years in Charlotte, and now 10 in the Islands

My blessings cannot be counted, and the best years of my life are still to be lived

lord life is good

[stratocasterca]

nwsun, that is absolutely correct. i built a log cabin in northern idaho during a "back to the land" kick in the 70's and it has become so valuable to me as a "mental happy place" that i just ignore the constant offers to sell it because i saved all the old growth timber on it.
I gathered up all the scrap steel from the logging activities that had happened nearby and have a mountain of metal that was originally intended to become iron sculpture, but will now probably become retro-steel for the next time america has a strength pulse. this latest pulse of high scrap metal prices for export doesn't even make me dig another outhouse pit on the place.
my uncle carried way too much shrapnel in him from the Pacific Theater that was likely scrap razors, horse-drawn farm equipment, and Model T's in its first rendition.

Selling raw materials to enemies has never worked out in recorded history. Bush is probably selling them uranium.