Rocket Science

There's an old expression, don't shit where you eat. Seems to make good sense. But why then, would we not be able to apply the same logic to our way of life? To this country? Bear with me a second and I'll explain.

Lets jump back in time about 30 years ago. I remember a small outdoors shop we would visit to purchase fishing gear. The owners were very nice, knew what the fish were biting on and would only carry lures they knew worked. They had tons of advice, local knowledge and they cared about the water quality as it directly effected the fishing. I knew this because of an anti-Acid Rain poster they had up. Some of you might remember the pristine Adirondack Park in upstate New York lost the majority of its native fish species due to acid rain which came from power plants in WV and Ohio. If it weren't for those pesky 'bleeding-heart liberals' who did the research and tracked the cause to the power plants there probably would be no fish anywhere on the eastern seaboard today. But alas, I digress...

Then came along the big box store, K-Mart. They had a fishing section and boy were the products cheap. We went there a few times but there was never a person working who knew the slightest thing about fishing in the area (or anywhere for that matter). After a couple years the lures were always a mess, strewn about the shelves in disarray and the products were all made in China. I kept my visits there to a minimum but evidently the reduction in business by the little fishing shop was too much and they closed. Before we knew it another K-Mart popped up and along side it the equivalent to it in the food world, Applebees. This trend has spread the country like a virus and now we have unsightly strip malls, uneducated sales people who don't care or know about what they sell, corporations profiting and the top brass don't care about the local water, air or anything. It's a sad state if you ask me but soon as I can I'm going to do something about it. Leave.

Where to? Imagine a place that saw the chance to let the big box stores take over but they were smart enough not to. Imagine a place where population didn't explode because the people realized that less people meant a greater overall standard of living. Imagine a country side full of farms, trees and quaint villages instead of huge roads, huge SUV's and HUGE thousand track McMansion developments. I guess they must all be rocket scientists to have figured this out. Or you could just call them French.

Read why CNN votes France the best place to live. I just hope the idiot Amuricans don't read this...