Posted on 03/15/2023 8:55:03 PM PDT by Celerity
Talk about a picture being worth a thousand (or more) words.
Funny how yesterdays RIGHT is todays wrong, according to the mentally ill running the show
“All red states are wretched, you people from blue areas need to stay away.”
AMEN!
All a normal person has to do is look at Colorado & Arizona. Both are now Californicated beyond all repair.
For those in Rio Linda that is the same as, F U B A R.
My first paying job was in 1951, I was 10 and got a job on a neighbor's farm for $1.00/day.
If you got there at 6:00 AM you got fed a large country breakfast, if you were late, you got the scraps.
We got fed lunch and if it was going to be a "long" day {until dark} we were fed dinner.
At the end of the work day, we got paid, in cash and told to come back for the next day {weather dependent}.
I was very satisfied with that arrangement and food was fantastic, fresh eggs, home made bacon, chicken, beef and pork and all fresh cuts.
Every thing they served us was farm fresh and raised right there...the buck a day was icing on the cake:)
I vacationed in Ponca once. Nice little area. Smokey mountainsish without all the people and ick.
I remember my impatient anticipation of my twelfth birthday so I could get my “working papers”. Don’t remember exactly what they were (prolly just official proof of age) but without them you couldn’t get a paper route. One of the kids in my sixth grade class was bigger than everybody else. Although only eleven, he worked the route he had “inherited” from his older brother. He always had money for candy, Sat. afternoon movies, ice cream, etc. and I was determined to be like him. Then, after my first “collection day” I found out exactly what the expression, “...for the house” meant and I was reduced back to asking my parents for money.
I’m guessing that cat is the closest thing this nutter has ever had to children, but dammit she knows better than the children’s actual parents what’s good for them, just like every other loopy leftist.
Arkansas is NOTHING like it was back in 1956 when we moved to the NW corner of the state. It was true backwoods hillbilly Poverty Row back then, under Dem Falbus as governor who seemed to be determined to keep it near the bottom of all lists. The UNofficial motto back then was ...”Thank Heavens for Mississippi” as that state kept Arkansas off the very bottom.
It was Winthrop Rockefeller(Republican) and Sam Walton who began to move the state from Poverty Row.
Today the NW corner is awash in billions of Walmart Money and has raised the standard so high people from neighboring states move to these two counties.
Too bad these two counties cannot secede from Arkansas and become their own state as the rest of the State is still a drag on this area.
I just wish they would 4 lane more roads in this area.
I remember 1962 working at 15 cleaning out chicken houses for one dollar a manure spreader load. Hot nasty work. But back then, that was the only work a teen could find till the beans became pickable then we picked beans for a penny a pound in the brutal hot sun. My brother passed out from the heat.
I actually made $5 one day! Once. Then the weather turned dry, the beans became light and I never made more than $2.80 even though I picked the same amount of beans.
I remember whole families, women and children, working in the brutal hot sun trying to make enough to put food on the table.
NW Arkansas is a paradise today compared to 1956-1970!
***You never heard the 48th state
In education trashed for it when Bill Clinton was there.***
Schools in our area are great due to the inflow of Walmart Money and a better tax base with a power plant built here 40 years ago.
Sixty years ago the poorest states were ..
#49 Arkansas
#50 Mississippi.
Today it is
#48 Arkansas (excluding Benton and Washington Counties)
#49 Mississippi.
#50. New Mexico. Never thought I would see the day when NM would be in such a position. They were great 60 years ago! Then Democrats seized the state and began to try to tried to impose California laws on it. Destroyed the oil and gas industry.
**My first paying job was in 1951, I was 10 and got a job on a neighbor’s farm for $1.00/day.**
Wow, you got paid!? I grew up on a IL grain and livestock farm, and was helping with livestock chores at age 5 (1959, chicken chores), was driving a tractor at age 6 on an Oliver 770, (supervised by my dad who was in the same field on JD730 ‘johnny popper’). At 7 I was driving the JD unsupervised in the field. And by then, doing hog and cattle chores with my older brother (who had no natural feel for operating equipment, but was great with the livestock).
Fall 63, at 9, my mom picked me up after school. I thought, ‘what now? I gotta get home a half hour sooner to work and miss the bus ride home with my friends?” Mom took me to the neighboring town, to the John Deere dealer, to drive a brand new JD4020 11 miles home through the countryside. I thought I was king of the planet!
Got paid nothing but loose change once in a while. Then at 10, I was given a new bicycle (which was also my birthday present). After that, pay came from marketing my own livestock.
Small town classmates found work in town, mowing yards, helping with gardening, raking leaves. Houses had to be painted back then, and it was common to see a kid scraping old paint off the siding, and painting (but not on an extension ladder).
I felt sorry for city kids that lived in apartment buildings.
I made my money during HS by keeping score at a bowling alley 5 nights a week. I supplemented that by keeping score at monthly semi professional tournaments. I made about $50, good money in 1970.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing ‘Hallelujah.’
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won’t believe ya’.
LOL!
Gov Sara Huckabee Sanders is a smart, astute thinker who works to improve the state and lives of our citizens. Mutilating underage children is barbaric and thank God Arkansas will not engage in facilitating the evil practitioners of this abuse. Arkansas is a great state to live in and I can see that the tide of people that are flooding Florida and other red states will begin to look for less crowded states. I hope they do not ruin Arkansas, or Oklahoma, with insane liberal communist politics that always destroy everything they get within a foot or two.
I worked for food, my Mom got the buck, and since I was the oldest of 4 boys, I was proud as punch.
My Dad had two jobs, working in the mill and pushing concrete.
I was just doing what every young country boy did...way back then.
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