DDT (12)
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Sometimes ya just gotta go...
Winter Springs, FL - Occasionally...
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« on: January 27, 2021, 05:20:29 AM » |
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Rust...
Yep, those first tell-tale signs of rust were hinting of more to come... Not oxidation in this case, however, but that sliver of rust color on the eastern horizon that signals night will not last much longer. What a great time of day!
I thoroughly enjoy early mornings... nowadays... Most of my life I was a sleepyhead, though, due mostly to my inclination to squeeze every ounce of ‘time’ out of any given day. Yep, I stayed up late pursuing whatever boys and young men do, but in reality that time had to be made up, so... Sort of like cutting the bottom few inches of a blanket off so it can be sown onto the top thereby increasing the length! Simply put, our bodies require certain amounts of rest, so... “…pay me now, or pay me later…”
A clever idea, I suppose, but there simply are no 'magical' choices or policy set-ups to override reality. A fixed sum of money is still that same amount, no matter how you shuffle or jazz-up the verbiage. If the government provides stuff for us, then it's free, right? They'll just find the funds to pay the freight in otherwise deeper pockets that’re now being wasted anyway... and as long as those pockets aren't mine... it’s a righteous and noble thing…
Well, it does sound appealing; however... In the long run we all end up footing the bill. Government funds only come from its subjects, through taxes primarily. Their maestros can make it sound good, but in the final analysis, if money isn't taken from this pocket, it must come from another, but in the end, we’re still the ones wearing the pants. All taxes are ultimately consumption taxes… including both direct and ‘indirect’ taxes…
If the costs to provide goods and services increase, then the price to consumers of those goods and services must also ‘increase’ in some form… otherwise, the provider ultimately will not remain in business. If the spending of government increases, then the available funds for investment and expansion are reduced… and the slope of the long-term growth curve is flattened proportionately…
Oh well, greater thinkers and problem solvers than this simple trekker are to be found on bar stools and at smartbox keyboards everywhere, so… I’ll just leave it to them and get back to enjoying the early mornings… Not much noise at all, no glaring lights to speak of, nobody asking me for something or other to ease their way; in fact, no one at all with whom to even engage… and that’s a good thing in my book!
The air itself seems clearer, fresher; the whole ambience is just different, and for my tastes superior. A time when we have not quite fully regained our daily stride and our brains are not yet fully up-to-cruising-speed… A time when thoughts not usually entertained pop freely in and out of our consciousness…
It was just such a time this morning, most mornings in fact, that I stepped out for my usual ‘heads-up briefing’ on what might come that particular day… If I could see ‘rust’, then likely no rain, at least not right away. Was the temperature pleasant or… otherwise? Was traffic already building, or was it still tolerable…? What might I do? Where might I go?
Lots of food for thought at a time when my mind was relatively free of all the clutter that soon would overwhelm it… My imagination, also, had not had time to be weighed down with all of the ‘important’ matters that would soon invade my thought processes… Shouldn’t there be a ‘pause button’ or something for such times? Perhaps government could just give us one…
DDT
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