Greener Pastures?

There is a saying in Stump County that “all of the bright young people have to leave Stump County to find work.” Well, that’s just not true. The fact is some of the young people leave Stump County to get away from work. Others leave Stump County to find a higher level of poverty.

That is also the same reason millions of folks from other countries want to move to America. America (with the exception of Stump County) has the highest standard of poverty in the world.

Don’t trust me, look it up. There are millions of folks around the world living every day on what an American spends on a soda pop.

In America you can live in poverty and own a couple of cars, a couple of televisions, and a couple of dogs. You can have air conditioning, running water and flush toilets and live in poverty. You can take vacations, cut your grass with a riding lawn mower, and fish for fun and live in poverty.

That’s why millions of folks are illegally sneaking across our borders. They want to enjoy American poverty.

Although you can’t fault a guy for wanting to improve his life or the lives of his family it would be nice if they would come here legally. We’re all for immigration, both for the country and for Stump County. If it weren’t for the newcomers to replace the kids who leave and the folks who die we wouldn’t have enough folks to keep Stump County going.

Those illiberal folks keep saying we need to let the folks who came here illegally stay. They say they are good citizens and the only law they will ever break is coming here. If that were true you would never see one of them in court.

We used to say the same thing about Ludd. Ludd makes likker. Ludd sells likker. Everybody knows it and nobody cares except some Baptists and the Revenuers.  The problem is when you get to decide which laws you are going to obey no law means anything.

Ludd doesn’t like the likker laws so he ignores them. The hippy guy doesn’t like the marijuana laws so he ignores them. Billy Bob likes to fight so he stays in court for assault.

If a law is wrong you need to fight to get it changed but you can’t just choose which laws you like. Laws aren’t like one of those buffets in the city restaurants. Laws are more like eating at Granny’s table. You take everything you are served and eat it or Granny will whomp your butt.