Adventures
in America's Third World
“She rose from her
warm bed a with a gun in each hand saying '”Come all you cowboys
and fight for your land.” Woody Guthrie. The Law of The Ranger's
Command.
I live in a small l
town in Colorado that has been bypassed by the rest of the country
except for old buildings that have been thrown out, abandoned then
burned . There no longer is an economy to be a part of. All commerce
is shut down when the rails were torn up and the Blood hound died..
There are a lot of meaningless jobs that no one can make a living
wage at working for WalMart or the local cafes. The national chains
will never open their choke and pukes here. There is not enough water
for growing pot. Yet there are turf wars with the cartels starting
up, gun hands have been hired to close roads to traffic and terrorize
the elderly and poor.
We are blessed with
third world illnesses There is an endemic chest, loose phylum cough
that resembles TB from Honduras,( one sees there are more imports
from Central America than gang banger impregnated teenagers
infection and we are waiting for Ebola to finish off the young and
the elderly.
Another hazard are the
cartels that have moved into the out lying areas creating no go
areas without meeting drug thugs with guns to help the traveler out.
Today my brother and I went out looking at a three acre parcel of
land. After a visit to the Fremont County Assessor we are able to pin
point the lot. on this mountain side. The whole mountain has been
burned over and it was ten years between brief visits. We miss my
brother's place by ten feet.
The Assessor is a
friendly and helpful person and we see where we'd been right and of
course where we went wrong. The missing land happened to be next
door to a pin moving land bully hiding behind a bullies exterior and
simply claim as right where the boomers left it. Colorado is littered
with boomers dreams gone bust. The problem is that people cheat a lot
, They move property pins and then seize the land. They tow in
trailers and put them on other people's land, They foul the water
supply with human waste. They plant and harvest pot plants while
their trailers hide meth labs The list of boom times crimes goes
endlessly on it can get quite repetitive.
Th3 problem is not so
much a problem of the immigrants it is the problem of the host
country borders years ago when Americans gave up on enforcing the
immigration laws and welcomed thirty million illegals as cheap labor
and corruptible voters. The rich want their cheap labor and liberals
need the ballot boxes stuffed. The problem is who is going to pay.
The rich fvor socialism and the resident poor get to pay for the
liberal ”Dream.”
Click twice and the
person serving you might speak English as a third language, then
again you might do better if you speak Zapotoc.
The
roads in Southwestern Fremont county are three seaons they laid out
on a grid not conforming with the topography. A quaint solution to
erotion and snow removal. But people looking to live close to
nature ought to know how to aim a car on slick clay. They take you
past the smashed traiers and burned out trailers.
The
people are mountain frendly as long as you are doing something
useful. They are true to he Code of the West. I am trying to be what
I am a n interested jouralist looking for the truth.
The dry nature of the
land impressed me. There was use of every drop of water. By the
pinion forest grown up on the burned side of Iron Mountain.
A drive though the area
reminds one of a set for the made for television set of Justified.
Long time residents are attempting to create community the short
timers are living hand to mouth desperate looking trailers and
vandalized cars are some of the detritus left from the summer of pot
growing.
Third world means there
is a mono culture, the local support themselves with pensions and
Social Security payments as well as real estate sales and trading of
the small plaits of land. There is no way one could make any sort
of a living off three acres of mountain land. Too short a growing
season , rock filled lack of topsoil make conventional farming
difficult. The cultivators of pot have a problem farming here and
there are residents who are armed, not ready for giving up their land
and freedom to grow pot for the Mexican market. Wve the problem of
people moving in with a different culture while our thinking and
institutions and education polices are stuck in nineteen zero four
teaching models. We are trying to dumb down children with computers
to a horn book level. We view innovation with total suspicion. We
have reduced teachers to assembly line mechanics when we are building
spaceships, not the Great White Fleet.
Our eduction system is
not broken it is nonexistent. Our children are dying of boredom and
third world fighters with a third grade eduction system rooted in the
seventh century AD. Drug corruption has reduced our cities to a
Detroit lever of rotten thought. The drug dealers education goes
nowhere except into the toilet of pseudo intellectualism building a
world of conflict between person and machine and inevitable dark
ages.
In the Third World
vacant land becomes a toilet, tax money has to be painfully
extracted, a physically harsh world becomes impossible for the sick
and elderly, youth is a time of underemployment and minorities are
played off against each other. And corruption and fear are rampant.
Meanwhile Congress men a screaming for a free market approach to
health care with doctors bidding for operations. Imagine Milton
Friedman auctioning off your spare body parts.
