National Priorities?
Nov. 28th, 2008 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ambitious_wenchA few days ago I posted a link to a video on The WHOFarm. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thepoeticpirate replied with the following point:
"i'm not against the idea of this organic farm thing, but preserving our constitutional republic against the imminent takeover by the global elite/banking interests is a lot more important."
You may be right. However, I beg to differ. Global warming is much more a threat to life on this planet than the banking crisis; Starvation is on the rise right here in the good ol' US of A, and one way of responding to both issues at once is to grow your own food. During the Great Depression, families and communities survived on what they grew and canned themselves.
A food garden on the White House lawn sets an example for the rest of America, and it doesn't preclude addressing banking interests taking over our country.
This isn't only about a landscaping change to the White House: This is about something much more basic: Keeping food in the bellies of Americans, keeping transportation carbon emissions down, and returning to a mentality of "taking care of our own".
I don't know jack shit about banking; I do know how to plant a garden, and I would rather put my Live Journal to good use teaching others the importance of self-reliance. Let the folks who know about banking deal with the problem. The rest of us can turn our hands to the good soil of this great land.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
thepoeticpirate replied with the following point: "i'm not against the idea of this organic farm thing, but preserving our constitutional republic against the imminent takeover by the global elite/banking interests is a lot more important."
You may be right. However, I beg to differ. Global warming is much more a threat to life on this planet than the banking crisis; Starvation is on the rise right here in the good ol' US of A, and one way of responding to both issues at once is to grow your own food. During the Great Depression, families and communities survived on what they grew and canned themselves.
A food garden on the White House lawn sets an example for the rest of America, and it doesn't preclude addressing banking interests taking over our country.
This isn't only about a landscaping change to the White House: This is about something much more basic: Keeping food in the bellies of Americans, keeping transportation carbon emissions down, and returning to a mentality of "taking care of our own".
I don't know jack shit about banking; I do know how to plant a garden, and I would rather put my Live Journal to good use teaching others the importance of self-reliance. Let the folks who know about banking deal with the problem. The rest of us can turn our hands to the good soil of this great land.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein