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| North Hampton Rocky Beach--Obadiah Youngblood |
But it's quite another when those tough old Yankees start to look like superstitious ignoramuses, clinging to some mystical, religious notion that we shouldn't help our neighbors because it makes them weak and it makes us enablers.
The big argument against accepting federal dollars (which Granite staters have already paid into the federal coffers) is that, down the road, some day, it will have meant we have actually bought into the notion we might get involved with the federal government. As if we have compromised our virtue by allowing the local woman of easy virtue to contribute to our collection for widows and orphans.
It puts Mad Dog (pictured below) into a funk.
Mad Dog,
ReplyDeleteOh yes, we let the government make some Belle Watling style donation and the well will surely be poisoned. Granite Staters will be so giddy from getting on Medicaid they'll be quitting their jobs to lay around waiting for the next handout. It's a slippery slope to debauchery and the descent starts with the first whiff of free money-c'mon you should know that Mad Dog...
Maud
PS-Glad to see you're allowed on the couch....
Maud,
ReplyDeleteI am nearly speechless. You have stunned me. The only reason I have any idea who Belle Watling might be is I happen to be reading Gone With The Wind and just got by the passage where Scarlett O'Hara is riding into Atlanta and the old slave who is driving her sniffs at Belle Watling without calling her Miss or Mrs and Scarlet realizes she must be a "bad woman."
How you dredge up that reference is beyond me, but it's a little spooky.
GWTW, incidentally, is a wonderful book. Southern women, apparently, may have one great novel in them--Harper Lee, would be another. Yikes. Belle Watling. What will you come up with next?
Mad Dog