Mindset

Conservatism is a mindset, most of these people who talk about being conservatives know nothing about conservation. I speak of John McCain, married to one of the world's richest women, whose father and grandfather were admirals, enough clout to get into the naval academy, who never knew what it was to want for anything. I speak of the Bushes, both 41 and 43, one of the richest families in America. I speak of the Rockefeller, the Buckleys, the Quayles, and I could name many others, these rich Republicans, like many rich Democrats, have never known the life which most of us live, the constant struggle to get through school and survival afterward.

From the time I was a small child, I had a small pillbox in which I saved my money. I have saved, been conservative every day of my life. As far as I can remember, I have never bought anything unless it was on a sales special. In spite of working hard, behaving myself and taking advantage of every opportunity, depending on the mercy of God. Giving my sight, which is next to life itself in importance, the person in prison's vote counts just as much as mine. 30% of all prisoners are illegal, they live better than I do. Prisoners get much better care than veterans, even 100% disabled veterans, prisoners, who have never contributed anything to this country. So I am told by people who work there, they eat better, live better than most hard working, tax-paying, god-fearing citizens. Prisoners know nothing of conservatism, theirs is truly a “me” generation.

With entitlements and retirement and other situations, your government owes 108 trillion dollars to citizen. 60% of all citizens get a government check of one form or another: military and civil-service retirements, welfare and social service. According to hundreds of pages of the Obama healthcare legislation within three years of enactment, every citizen will have a microchip detailing all healthcare history. The ethics of the healthcare professionals, the ethics of the insurance providers, the ethics of the common man, will be a thing of the past, as all play the necessary games to get their entitlement, healthcare. We think drug pushers are bad now...just wait for both legal and illegal drug pushing, conservation by way of holistic care will be a thing of the past.

Many of today's citizens use “home remedies”, recently, I was at lunch with two college officials, both ordered “diet-drinks”. I went into my usual “learned” routine about the dangers of aspartame, the most toxic substance to man (sic). I said, “put a nail in your glass and see how fast the diet drink will dissolve it, or a piece of raw meat.” Neither could be bothered, neither cared, most Americans would stay out of doctor's offices if they were conservative. Conservation is a mindset, conserving in your eating, drinking, spending, everything.

I have written several times that nothing will straighten out this country like a good (Great) depression. I lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s-1940s, those who lived through these times, like my parents and grandparents, never forgot. The people I knew, who witnessed it, talked about it until the day they died. When you have seen starving people, starving farm animals, it makes an unforgettable impression. God wanted me to see the physical depression of the rest of the world. Countries that have survived in spite of everything. There is only one country in the world where there are fat people, only America has an obese population...only America has a diabetic population. In China, even the tourists who got the best were always still hungry when leaving the table. I have traveled to most of the countries in Africa, the bloated, hungry children of Africa will haunt me until my death. The only thing more haunting, the killing of innocent children through abortion in this country. And, we are stupid enough, even those sitting on church pews to think that God is not aware of these things.

Once, in Thailand, I saw an old man give some food to some hungry children on the street. Other children, also hungry, took him down in the street, searching his clothing for food. I am told that in the public schools of America, schools where food is paid for by tax dollars, most of the food is thrown in the garbage because most children are so finicky about their eating. This old, totally blind veteran, never throws away any food. I have witnessed too many hungry people around the world. Most of the world's population would be glad to eat from our garbage cans. Now, there are place in the world, big cities like Paris, London, Tokyo where rich people, mostly politicians, live well in the dining areas of international hotels. Just as in Washington DC, or the wall street areas of NYC, or the Hollywood areas of Los Angeles. The world's politicians, along with their lobbyist friends, the rich and famous live “high on the hog”.

Those who talk of conservatism, know nothing about conservatism, conservatism is a mindset, permeating your entire being. You do not throw anything away, you turn off the water when brushing your teeth, you turn bottle upside down to make sure you have gotten everything out of them. There is a use and need for everything, you brush your clothing, polish your shoes, drive your car correctly. I know people who spend more money on the food for their dog or cat, than this totally blind, 100% disabled veteran spends on food for himself. Do you see anything wrong with that picture?

Concern, morality, discipline, are lost words in most vocabularies. In this “me” generation, most are only interested in what happens to them. Over and over, in the Great Depression, people would come to my parent's door, “Miss Sally, do you have any scraps of food, my children are starving.” I remember so well, my mother giving me a brown paper bag, “Thomas, go to the 'potato hill' and get some potatoes.” She would go to the “smoke house”, get some old bones, all the meat had been cut from them, and give it to them for the making of soup. Often, in a large washpot, from corn in the corn crib, she would make a hominy to give to the neighbors. There was only cottonseed for the cow to eat...before the cow was sold in order to pay taxes on the land. It took every dime everyone could make, just to pay taxes on the land. Do you people not see the same thing happening again? These same politicians already have your lands and homes appraised, all they have to do is raise the taxes from these appraisals in order to pay the ne'er do wells, who keep them in office. It was learned long ago, that conservatives pay the price for the largess of politicians, who use your tax dollars to buy their votes. Many call themselves conservatives, who in their mind are only conservative when it comes to their own welfare.

Ecosystems

The word ecosystem did not appear in the English Lexicon until 1930. More recently, people have become very aware of their environment especially the academics, the liberals, the welfare culture, those who have done the most to destroy it. Eco refers to biological, temperature, geological , everything pertaining to life.

The scientists thought they had discovered something. The book of Genesis in the Bible establishes the ecosystem. Fauna and Flora alike and everything necessary to sustain it. The best seed in the best soil will not survive or grow unless the environment is right. In my house, for many years, I kept a beautiful piece of natural sculpture, about two feet high. It was a petrified plant I had purchased from two young boys in the Sahara Desert . The average ecologist, most as stupid as Al Gore, do not realize that at one time the Sahara was covered with vegetation. Like the Sphinx at Cairo which at one time was almost totally covered with sand, sand and heat in the change of global environmental temperature, covered the vegetation and the hot sun, over many centuries, has so baked the area (Sahara the size of the United States) that the plant life has petrified. Occasionally, after a storm, when large sand piles are moved, native boys will dig many feet down into the desert and bring up these petrified plants, plants that have turned into stone. I purchased, for two dollars, the largest plant they had recovered. Like a fool, I hauled this plant back, heavy, an absolute curiosity to everyone (I have since sold this online).

The worst disease in Washington is Obama chicanery...six trillion dollars later has almost ruined this great democratic republic. Of course he fell for the Copenhagen catastrophe, the Gore goring, the debacle of believing AARP promoters who have brought science to a screwy low. I resigned my membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) because the scientific method is manipulated by mongrels only interested in government management. Grants to students and research grants, tax payer largess keep the harbingers of knowledge going at most schools.

Early farmers of the Pyrenees, tea plantations in Sri Lanka, knew about conservation long before American agricultural schools. My father, a dirt farmer, knew more about environmental and conservation practices than anyone at the agriculture department. I plowed in fields that had been contoured. We kept our forest safe. The agriculture agents, would come to his farm, to see how it was all done...planting, animals, trees. America's pioneer farmers could look at soil and tell more about it than the agronomist. The pioneer farmer could look at the sky and predict the weather more accurately than your news forecaster.

Until chemtrails (The spraying of the sky with chemicals by government to control weather), electronic messaging etc., there were insects such as a honey bee population and plant growth which with normal rain fall would grow as expected. With the genetic manipulation of seeds now to the extent of insecticides in the seed before they go into the ground, food has become expensive as well as dangerous to both man and animals. Plants grown in a green house do much better than those grown outside, so environmentally unfriendly are the skies...modern man's ecosystem, self pollution...harvest.

The ecosystem extends even to the planting of seed in the minds and hearts of individuals. The hearts of most people have become so polluted that the seed of spirituality does not grow. The minds of most children have become so polluted with satanic commercially produced and diabolically contrived slop (liquid garbage) that the seed of education fundamentals no longer thrives. Education has become a matter of entertainment.

My mother attended a two-room school where my Aunt Cattie taught (my Grandfather's sister). The children who went to that school learned, and most importantly, learned the discipline of lives and mind. Watch Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, or Mark Driscoll and you will discover why the germination of the seed of God's Word does not grow and mature in such an environment.

Big is not better. In the community where I was raised, one of the oldest Quaker churches in the country, I well remember as a child, the old Quakers traveling to church in their horse and buggy. My Grandparents and Great Grandparents had two surreys with horses in which they traveled. Once, I was just a child at that old Quaker Church, one of the community's outstanding young men who had left the community after University education for an outstanding job had come home. At a Quaker service, there is always a “time of silence”. During this time, if anyone is moved to speak or give testimony they can. I remember him standing and telling how grateful he was to be back at that church after so many years. He said, “This is what American life is all about, small churches of believers, small farmers who know one another, small schools where children get the very best in fundamental education.”

I thought of this many times, traveling the world, in Warsaw Poland, the large square in mid city , the occupying Russians had built the city's largest building as an art center. In other Russian occupied countries, I noted they had built sports stadiums...always something large, always something that the Russians did...Communism wants to be so great. How quickly we have fallen into the dearth of the acceptability of this type collectivism and control under the tutelage of Obama and his Marxist tribe.

Small colleges are not necessarily inferior. America was built with small businesses (small business employs 99%). Small hospitals, small professional offices, are not necessarily inferior. It is the small, often poor, homes, that have produced the largest giants of politics, industry and education (Truman, Edison, Simpson, Wesley). Most men and women wearing military decorations came from the poor and minority homes of our nation.

Luther Burbank who contributed more to the Eco and agricultural world than anyone, was one of 15 children growing up in a poor farm family with only an elementary education. My teacher, the great Dr. Radford, UNC-CH, a botanist, ecologist, simply outstanding. Dr. Clarence Poe, who I had the pleasure to meet before he died in 1964, editor of the Progressive Farmer, great agricultural leader, small country farm, also educated in a one room school. My two grandfathers, went to a one-room school with Governor Charles B. Aycock (1900-1904), who is still known as the educational Governor of North Carolina, reared on a small farm, determined to bring education to the forefront of his state when he saw his mother unable to sign her name, just make her mark on a deed.