What’s Up With all the Litter?
“The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit…” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I recently spent a considerable amount of time traveling in the States of Michigan and Wisconsin. To say the least the scenery is beautiful, with a bountiful supply of fresh water rivers, streams and lakes, a verdant green lushness that is so missed in many parts of our vast Country. The air in Northern Michigan is rich in oxygen and the aromas of the Great Lakes, fertile loam soils and creek bottom plants and wildflowers. Aside from these affronts to the senses, it struck me almost immediately that there was something I wasn’t putting my finger on that was quite different. Something was glaringly missing from my surroundings. Hmm… Trash! Graffiti! There weren’t mounds or drifts of litter piling up everywhere. There weren’t any vulgar depictions of someone’s genitals or gang symbols spray painted all over the freeway overpasses. In Michigan litter is refreshingly absent from the roadsides, nonexistent in people’s yards and was not at all visible in any of the places we visited. Everything was green and clean. People in rural America just do not seem to have a penchant to litter. In California’s East Bay Cities there are piles of litter everywhere. Not only do people litter the streets and freeways, they dump there trash in City and State Parks or other people’s yards. Just this last week someone dumped medical waste into my recycling bin. City dwellers litter theaters, public transportation, anything that moves or doesn’t move is a target for the litter bugs. Nowhere is sacrosanct. If some location doesn’t have its fair share of garbage attached to it, it apparently irritates the California City Dweller to no end. They have an obsessive-compulsive urge to throw a MacDonald’s french fry box into any space that does not have one. http://www.litteringiswrongtoo.org/faq
Not only do they litter, they have a warped love affair with graffiti. There are those that lurk about in the night staking claim to such things as stop signs, railroad cars, freeway walls, fences, buildings, buses, billboards, etc. It seems to me that a guy with the tag “f##k” has laid claim to a huge chunk of the city where I reside. He’s been everywhere. With all of the publicity he has been able to generate he ought to have run for Mayor. Or maybe even the Senate. Whoops. I forgot, we already have “f##k” for a senator. http://www.popcenter.org/problems/graffiti
Graffiti in rural Michigan or Wisconsin? Nope. First off, everyone I met in the Mid-West has an arsenal of guns and that’s a pretty good deterrent when it comes to trespassing. People there take ample pride in their property. They apparently understand the actuality that they are part owners of the streets, the rivers, the buses, etc. This is because they have paid for these things in part and parcel with their taxes, not because it was magically granted to them by a welfare government. People with Common Sense have never agreed to the illusion that the government owns all or anything. They don’t. You litter or deface the people’s property in rural America and you get fined for vandalism (or shot, depending on who gets there first) you don’t get glorified as a street artist or community activist. In the eyes of those in the Socialist Republic of California, everyone is apparently deemed to have equal rights, even if they are criminal and it is their life’s ambition to pitch a tent, litter, defecate and camp on the people’s property of which they have never paid a lick for. Fellow Californians then raise a peace sign, hail these free-loaders as heroes and heroines of free speech and then happily put signatures on more and more liberal petitions in an “open-minded” trashing of The Constitution.
I have been a resident of California since 1976. The political and social ideas that were generated out of the drug induced fog of the sixties have taken solid root here and have been parasitically disseminated across the nation in the guise of liberalism. In reality they aren’t that at all, they are anti-American, anti-Constitution and anti-Spiritualistic. The higher virtues of the 60’s movement were high-jacked long ago by the socialists, the pornographers, the gay rights movement and the radical psychology departments associated with Universities like UC Berkeley. Government has become a degraded quagmire and a free-for-all where a lot of special interest groups have become politically active by lobbying for their individual causes rather than any higher purposes for the good of all Americans.
Now it is 2014 and Common Sense is screaming out that it is time to trash these ill-conceived social and political debacles. It should be apparent and deducible that the streets and culture are a reflection of our own minds and that it is clear that our minds have been seriously trashed with bad ideas. We have been lackadaisical about a shit load of drug induced radicalism. All you have to do is look out the window in any major city in the United States. Our streets and culture are littered with rubbish both physically and intellectually. In the future it is my intention to put together a book of Common Sense solutions in an effort to solve many of our social and political problems. We deserve better and more workable answers for a modern social infrastructure. We do not deserve drug induced liberalism. Our universities need a good house cleaning as does our government. Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer ought to be in the Institution and not the keepers of it. You can quote me on that.
Many things may happen here in California first, but when it comes to modern politics it should also end here. Most of what is being exported doesn’t and never will work. It is big government at its worst. It continues to grow even bigger as it trashes our Constitution at an alarming rate.
Common Sense would dispense a little advice to the youth of this nation: “YOUR INNATE COMMON SENSE, INTEGRITY AND CONSCIENCE ARE FAR SUPERIOR AND MORE VALUABLE THAN POLITICAL OR SOCIAL CORRECTNESS. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. KEEP YOUR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES INTACT, THEY ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE BUILDING BLOCKS TO ALL THAT REMAINS PRODUCTIVE AND CREATIVE IN THIS NATION OF OURS. COMMON SENSE AND VALUES HAVE BEEN LOST TO THOSE PROMOTING LIBERALISM, SOCIALISM, MARXISM, EXISTENTIALISM, RADICALISM, ANARCHISM, ATHEISM, COMMUNISM OR MOST ANY OTHER ISM BEING DREAMED UP FOR THE PURPOSE OF SOCIAL GOVERNING. THEY ARE NOT NEW IDEAS. THESE ISMS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND THEY HAVE ONE SAD THING IN COMMON; THEY DON’T WORK. THEY EVENTUALLY LEAD TO REVOLUTION AND CHAOS NOT EVOLUTION. THEY ARE PROMOTING AND CREATING THE DEGRADATION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.”
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