Obamanation

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1. In Alberta I’ve been noticing a lot more Americans working everywhere I go here.
   Their accents are unmistakable and when I ask them where they’re from they’re mostly from Blue/Purple states.
   They seem happy to be here but there is a tragic sadness about them too.

2. I don’t blame them Oz; they are witnessing the quickening demise of their country in their time.

3. I don’t blame them Harkov, just sayin’ they look sad. It’s better having Americans come here and work than having people shipped here from cultures that are more at odds with Alberta culture.
   People who want to really work for their living are respectable.

4. Bot h we and the Americans got what we voted for.
   The influx of hard-working Americans is a good thing; they work hard indeed, and are ingenious.
   My faith in Alberta is to some extent restored by the demise of the Red Rat.

5. To be fair, so many Americans were living beyond their means it wasn’t even funny.
   When I used to live in New York and Arizona in the 1990’s I’d drive around and see house after house after house, $250-$300-$400k houses, with two new cars, a new boat and a new Harley in the driveway. Meanwhile I was driving a twenty year old beater that I resurrected from beyond the grave with nothing more than spit, bailing wire and bad language, and living in/renovating a fixer-upper that cost under $100k. I constantly racked my brain trying to figure out how these people who made the same money I did (or less!) could have all the stuff they did.
   The answer was DEBT. Credit card debt, mortgage debt, bank debt. They were all tens of thousands in the hole, and financing it on the rising real estate market. ChaCHING, new car.
   Well, then came 2008. Music stopped, lots of guys got caught without a chair. To the point where even now, eight years later, guys are still trying to unload RVs, race cars, antiques, sand rails, guns and boats in Arizona so they can keep their house. Pity the ones who spent huge on granite counter tops and fancy tile.
   That’s happening all over the USA. There were an awful lot of people whose entire lifetime earnings were completely wiped out in 2008/2009. Those people didn’t all just vanish, they’re still out there scraping along.
   No wonder late middle aged couples are moving back in with their 80+ year old parents.

6. I found this tape of Bill interesting. I stopped watching him when he wouldn’t call obama a socialist. This was in the early days of the first obama administration. He kept saying it over and over and saying there was no evidence of that. I thought he was out of touch and couldn’t admit he had made a mistake. Since I stopped watching him, I don’t know if he ever formally back tracked that view.

7. Times were/are tough, and yes much of it self-inflicted. But there are guys like you that play it straight and simple, but can find themselves with potential opportunities to pick up some of those well-earned toys at a fire sale discount. 🙂
   I live in a Northern Ontario town that a few years back experienced a long drawn out, year long strike by it’s main industry. A lot of those union suckers did likewise, going beyond their means, camps, boats, trailers, quads, F-series trucks, massive houses that were WELL beyond their means………the whole kit. Well, when crunch time came after a year on the picket line (a year on a picket line is NEVER worth it, I don’t care what ANYONE says) these union morons were scrambling to dump their toys; I knew it was only a matter of time.
   I ended up with a nice little cottage at an otherwise undreamed of discount the very day it was listed. Someone’s stupidity and greed became my gain. 🙂

8. Funny…I stopped watching O’Reilly a long time ago for the same reason.
   Dumb-ass actually hit a home run this time.
   Even a blind dog hits the odd fire hydrant
   Thanks for sharing…

9. If I’m not mistaken, we got a trailer dirt cheap… Dad even gave the guy a few extra bucks cuz’ he was on strike and the Ol’ Man was a trade-unionist from Scotland.
   Scudbury Ontario. The date? 1978(ish). Just a guess but I’ll bet our dates are different. Same result tho’.