I had the craziest experience with a plumber I’ve had a few weeks ago.
My outdoor faucet had a small leak in it. I tried to take the faucet apart to replace the gaskets inside, but after 35 years of the screw in the middle of the faucet staying in one place, it wouldn’t come out. Finally, in frustration, I purchased a faucet with a ‘shark-bite’ end and replaced the faucet. And it worked well, for about a year.
The next summer, the new faucet wouldn’t turn off. I put quite a bit of pressure on the faucet handle and it just wouldn’t stop running. So every time I wanted to use that faucet, I had to run downstairs and turn the water on from inside and repeat the same process when I was done with the outside water. Not doing so added massively to my water bill.
My wife called a plumber and over he came. After analyzing the situation, he said, “I’m not going to fix the faucet. You do it. Because if I did it, I’d install another new faucet and solder it in. And that’ll cost you about $700.”
$700? For soldering one pipe that’s about 35 years old to a new outside faucet.
So off he went. And for $700, I was glad to make the repair myself.
That’s how America has evolved as well. After all, the USA has been around longer than many of the countries around the world. Rather than in past generations where Americans pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, used their rugged individualism and drive to fix, improve and grow small things around the country, but collectively, it made a massive impact.
Today, instead, we may try one or two half-hearted attempts before we run to the ‘experts’ in the gov’mint and ask them to fix the problem. Gov’mint is very happy to fix problems as that is what gov’mint has done for over 5000 years. Step in, take over, fix the problem by putting gold-foil over the cow manure (the problem) and say “look how great we’ve made it. We should continue to run this part of society so the dung heap is forever in the past.”
What should be happening in the USA is gov’mint should take a look at the problem, look to their Supreme law of the land they swore an oath to, and say, “We aren’t going to repair it. It isn’t in our job description, but – it is in WE THE PEOPLE’s job description.
“If we repaired it, it would be MASSIVELY overpriced and it wouldn’t be any better of a fix than you can do yourself.”
And we do have some people in gov’mint that tend to think and act this way. But not many.
Instead, Americans seem content with eroding their ‘city on a hill’ into a socialist nightmare (which will, over time, be little different than Castro’s Cuba, Mao’s China, Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany). That’s why you need my guidance, which I’ve put together as (How I am) Prospering in a Socialist Society, found at https://TedLeithart.com/prospering-in-a-socialist-society/
