Posted on 06/23/2009 6:47:50 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
When President Obama came to office he told the nation that a shared sacrifice was key to America's recovery. He urged Americans toward self-reliance and thrift. In those early days the idea of reviving the "victory garden" concept of WWII became an idea whose time had come... again. So, let's tell a fairy tale of one upper class Midwestern Mommy, shall wee. With Obama's example to the nation before her, this mother decided to take the President up on his suggestion and began her own victory garden in her upscale neighborhood.
She was initially excited about her contribution to that shared sacrifice so urgently hailed by the president, even felt duty bound to observe the president's exhortation. Soon she broke ground with the help of her children. She even brought some local kids over to her house to help so that the spirit of the effort might spread. It was a picture worth seeing and a message earnestly delivered.
The digging and planting was quite successful, actually. She was gratified that some local media arrived at her picture perfect home and indulged some ooos and ahs about how she was involving the city's youth and inculcating a concern for our nation among them...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
This is like the “fast for peace” that Cindy Sheehan did last year, where the participants fasted as a group by scheduling an hour apiece...
When I saw a map of their garden, the vast majority of it was for lettuce and peas along with a few herbs rather than longer growing plants like tomatoes, corn, potatoes and zucchini. It was pretty clear that the garden was primarily for a quick PR campaign with fast growing vegetables and could be forgotten by July.
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You can bet the White House gardeners are doing most of the work, but what the heck, raising a few vegetables isnt any worse than grooming the lawn and the flowers. They are on our tab anyway why not?
Mildly interesting. Post more if you get a chance.
This guy's Golden Rule is "Say One Thing While Doing The Opposite".
If he wants "self-reliance" for Americans Al Gore is ethical.
It's Bizarro America.
We have to be thrifty in order to pay higher taxes so that he & his cronies can afford their $100/lb imported beef.
She's not upper class. With her upbringing, she's lower middle class and always will be.
Nobody changes their class when they win the lottery.
And the children. Instead of learning what they need to know, they are being used as props.
What a perfect Stalinistic trait.
“It was pretty clear that the garden was primarily for a quick PR campaign with fast growing vegetables and could be forgotten by July.”
Right: Michelle Obama certainly didn’t expect it to be WORK, for goodness sakes:
“on her first day of strenuous digging in the White House garden, with cameras rolling and reporters scribbling, she was the first to pipe up with a half-joking and half-plaintive, “Are we done yet?””
http://www.momsmiami.com/?a=profile&u=73&t=blog&blog_id=1899
After she spoke, the students were paired off and handed a gardening tool. The first lady joined — first with a shovel, then a rake — and together they began pulling up the grass, dumping it into wheelbarrows and depositing the contents in a central location.
“Are we done yet?” Mrs. Obama jokingly said at one point. “I want to plant. Let’s harvest something.”
http://kealakai.byuh.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1765&Itemid=81
What would the American agrifarm industry do if Americans were suddenly producing 4-6 weeks of their own food?
Imagine how much subsidy growth we’d suddenly need to respond to that “crisis”.
Link’s brokenNah, the server just went down for a while.
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