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| August 9th, 2020 at 3:13:15 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22942 |
Thanks old timer. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| August 9th, 2020 at 3:17:53 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
"The Grapes of Wrath" was one of the only USA movies allowed in the USSR. The commies thought it would show their people how bad life in the USA was. It was pulled when people noticed that even that poor in the USA they still had a car. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| August 9th, 2020 at 3:32:07 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
Don't if this happened in the US or not. In Canada the prairie farmers couldn't afford gas for their cars so they hooked the horses to them. They were called "Bennett Buggies" after the Prime Minister of Canada at the time. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| August 9th, 2020 at 3:33:29 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
You respect your elders you young whippersnapper. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| August 9th, 2020 at 4:02:08 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
Even today the "poor" in the USA are among the top wealth of the world. It is why so many people want to come here. Have to wonder why some countries there has not been an uprising to ask to be a US Territory. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| August 9th, 2020 at 4:15:24 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
I watch lots of food/travel videos from India and Asia. I often see peoples homes. A blanket for a door, a crude cooking area, no furniture, but there is always a TV. The average 'poor' person in the US has a car, a microwave, a flat screen, a cell phone, an air conditioner. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| August 9th, 2020 at 4:52:06 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
I did a little research and in the US they were called 'Hoover Wagons'. This quote is from the US Department of Transportation "Until our Nation could pull itself out of the Great Depression, the Hoover Wagons and the Bennett Buggies would have good roads on which to travel, and until gasoline became accessible once again, a little hay and some oats fueled the team". "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| August 9th, 2020 at 5:19:32 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
Good research! New one to me, that is very hard to do! War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| August 9th, 2020 at 5:47:12 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22942 | Probably not enough horses to do that today. Maybe enough designer dogs to pull a few more cars. Poodles and bichons and whatnot. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| August 10th, 2020 at 9:50:00 AM permalink | |
| JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 1061 |
Let me clarify. In the book Travels with Charley, I don't recall any stay in an RV park by any name, (trailer park, campground or whatever). So the growers that are depicted as violently repressing desperate migrant workers found fault with the book? Imagine that. Maybe you could tell me what passage or theme in Grapes of Wrath makes it communist so I don't have to guess. A government of laws and not of men. - John Adam’s |