BrewsNBuds
Active Member
Some real passion in this thread. If you believe in sustainability, then you should be standing up against these efforts to destroy what has been built up over the last 8 years in Rhode Island.
Generations of people in this state have sat back and said "oh, they wouldn't really pass a law that's gonna hurt us. I trust them." Well, we are hurting here. We have the highest unemployment in the country, the worst roads in the world, and the only people moving into the state are people who don't work who heard through word of mouth about our legendary welfare benefits and want to get paid to "sit on their ass all day" as Wavegem said. That's not sustainable. And the politicians we have now just don't care. All they want is to take more of our money and keep that welfare money train rolling for their non-working voters. I've talked to my colleagues at work about these issues, and they are fired up. Why the hell should we get up in the morning and go to work every day so that a bunch of parasites who don't work can watch 55" TV's, drive nice cars, and live in a free apartment on our tax dollar. The front page article in the Journal the Sunday before last was entitled "Rebuilding Olneyville." They want to dump $100 Million into Manton Heights projects because they're not nice enough for the "working families" who live there. Deep into the article the author slips in the cold hard fact that 70% of the people living in Manton Heights are not working. I mean I don't care if you are a mechanic, a bartender, an engineer, a receptionist, a machinist, a sales rep, or if you just grow an incredible garden and live off your land; it should really piss you off that the big focus today (yea, Providence Journal, I mean you) is on people who don't contribute to Rhode Island, and Rhode Islanders who work are supposed to pay for it all.
Our big problem as growers is there's no lobbyist for the patient/caregiver community in Rhode Island. Curt Shilling had a lobbyist. You can bet Alex + Ani has a big lobby.
We need to step up and replace these old crows in the General Assembly. That's the only way we're going to get real change here. That's my rant.
Generations of people in this state have sat back and said "oh, they wouldn't really pass a law that's gonna hurt us. I trust them." Well, we are hurting here. We have the highest unemployment in the country, the worst roads in the world, and the only people moving into the state are people who don't work who heard through word of mouth about our legendary welfare benefits and want to get paid to "sit on their ass all day" as Wavegem said. That's not sustainable. And the politicians we have now just don't care. All they want is to take more of our money and keep that welfare money train rolling for their non-working voters. I've talked to my colleagues at work about these issues, and they are fired up. Why the hell should we get up in the morning and go to work every day so that a bunch of parasites who don't work can watch 55" TV's, drive nice cars, and live in a free apartment on our tax dollar. The front page article in the Journal the Sunday before last was entitled "Rebuilding Olneyville." They want to dump $100 Million into Manton Heights projects because they're not nice enough for the "working families" who live there. Deep into the article the author slips in the cold hard fact that 70% of the people living in Manton Heights are not working. I mean I don't care if you are a mechanic, a bartender, an engineer, a receptionist, a machinist, a sales rep, or if you just grow an incredible garden and live off your land; it should really piss you off that the big focus today (yea, Providence Journal, I mean you) is on people who don't contribute to Rhode Island, and Rhode Islanders who work are supposed to pay for it all.
Our big problem as growers is there's no lobbyist for the patient/caregiver community in Rhode Island. Curt Shilling had a lobbyist. You can bet Alex + Ani has a big lobby.
We need to step up and replace these old crows in the General Assembly. That's the only way we're going to get real change here. That's my rant.
