I stopped by a local fruitstand the other afternoon. The owner/proprietor is an older man who has been parking his pickup and setting up his tables there under the same shade tree for years. That day he had his young grandson working with him. The boy, probably around eight or nine years old came over to wait on me. As he was sacking up the two cantelopes I had chosen, he asked me, “how you doin’ today ma’am?” (I didn’t berate him for calling me ‘ma’am’, as Barbara Boxer would have done.)
I replied that I was fine, and how was he? He told me with great enthusiasm that “Today is payday. I’m going to get a slider phone.”
I couldn’t help but smile, and told him I thought that was great. He had been wanting one for a while, he said, and had been saving his money. As I drove away, I kept thinking about those words coming from the mouth of a nine-year-old: “Today is payday!”
I love it that there is at least that one little boy who is still being raised as a capitalist, even an entrepreneur. He wanted something, he works and earns money, then gets the thing he wants.
This is the America that I don’t believe Obama, his wife, nor his gang of cronies understand. I don’t believe that they even want to try to understand this way of thinking and living. Sometimes I don’t think they even believe that actual people live this way, and think this. They seem to think that values like that exist only in Mayberry, and that everyone knows that Mayberry is a fictional place.
I would feel sorry for them if I thought they were sincerely searching for this America. But they disdain this America. This type of thinking serves no purpose for them. A child working to earn money for something he wants? How terrible! Let’s just have the government give all children a cell phone. The “No Child Left Speechless” Act of 2009.
These are their “values,” if you want to call it that. Power is the goal, and gift-giving and bribery of all Americans the tools.
As for me, I tipped that young man the change from my purchase, and did my part to stimulate the economy.
Through a nine-year-old boy who already knows the feeling and satisfaction of “payday.”
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Good work, Pup. As our world embraces the concepts of forced social equity, it seems that simple capitalism (the exchange of valuable goods and services for valuable compensation) gets less and less moral regard. Reports like this serve to reinforce my hope for those values returning to our national mindset. Ayn Rand said, “Any trade by which one man gains and another loses is a fraud.” Happy payday to that boy, to you, and to all of us who choose to earn it.
My America isn’t gone yet! But you can bet your butt if things keep going the way they have been, OSHA, the EPA, FDA and IRS will put that old man and his grandson out of business by force.
Thanks for a glimmer of hope, and taking part in the great American experiment.
Great post Pup! Glad you are back, observing, thinking and writing. Liberals have great disdain for “Mayberry”. Jonah’s book, Liberal Fascism, is really opening up my eyes as to how long this “elitist” mentality has really been going on in our country. The thinking you describe here is not new…we have been here before and worse! These people just aren’t satisfied with America as it is and was founded, home of the free and the brave. It’s funny, they cannot see why so many people want to come live here, but now they want to make it like the countries those people came FROM! Hopefully, I will be making some notes on my blog soon about our history in regards to this.
Pup: I LOVED your post! I can’t understand why the great unwashed liberal wing can’t grasp the beauty and satisfaction of working for what you receive! But it’s as you said: power is everything to them!
Thanks all, for your great comments! Glad we all agree on this. I enjoyed the moment, the look on his face.
It’s not gone, and we won’t let them snuff it out. Thanks again, all of you.
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