[Homestead] @ akka

Robert Walton waltonrp at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 00:25:01 EDT 2008


> I kind of hope Obama is elected.  Then the Dems can control it all.  Then, the excuse will be they are dealing with the Bush war debt legacy.  It's the standard excuse.  Bush dealt with the Clinton legacy, selling our technology to the North Koreans and others...

Whoever gets control of the government is not going to solve all our
problems. I think that homesteading and self sufficiency are more
important now than ever. My grandma always told me how their flock of
laying hens got them through a tough winter in the depression, not the
New Deal.

> I am sorry if my questioning seems to be attacking Obama, however, I won't bend over backwards to apologize because for YEARS, literally years, I have listened to and read and deleted the political rants and arguments on this list.  I like throwing things out there to get y'all opinion on it.  I have been silent until this last year or so about my own opinions.  I have tried to stay out of things-tried to veer the conversations back to homesteading topics, etc.   But for whatever reason, some kind of switch inside of me has turned on and I have started joining the fray.  I am learning about all kinds of stuff that I could not have accessed alone through Googling.  Each one of you brings me a piece of the puzzle.   If you each researched one thing, I get 25 things to think about, and I do, very seriously.  The recent difference is that now I am talking and questioning, too. Perhaps it has rocked the boat a bit.  This is the second time recently

Always question. Do not let anyone stop you from that. Maybe the same
switch went off in me, too. I read and deleted political posts for
years, too. I left this list once in the 90s, because of some
political flame that meant downloading 100s of emails. Sometimes the
posts made me boil. I can't tell you how many times I've wrote a post
and then deleted it!

This is the only homestead list that I'm on where real homesteaders
talk about real topics. I like that and have the highest of respect
for list members. That's not to say I won't get down in the mud and
roll around with them though.

Rob - Va


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