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The original log cabin had vanished, but the barn with two log cribs prevailed, built from Post Oak trees felled by axe on the property. Lumber for framing the barn roof and attached sheds, from which the farmhouse was also built, was milled from the same Post Oak trees at a local sawmill. Nearly a century later up until the mid 70s, my grandparents were mostly still raising a vegetable garden as usual, tending fruit trees (pears, peaches), keeping a dairy cow, milking, scimming the fresh cream, making butter and cottage cheese, raising beef cattle, hogs, and chickens, gathering eggs, buying chicks from a hatchery to raise for fryers, butchering chickens and hogs, making sausage, and smoking sausage, ham, and bacon. The land was poor, deep sandy soil, but the Soil Conservation Society had taught my grandfather to peanut farm, by which he was able to make loan payments and not lose the land. | The original log cabin had vanished, but the barn with two log cribs prevailed, built from Post Oak trees felled by axe on the property. Lumber for framing the barn roof and attached sheds, from which the farmhouse was also built, was milled from the same Post Oak trees at a local sawmill. Nearly a century later up until the mid 70s, my grandparents were mostly still raising a vegetable garden as usual, tending fruit trees (pears, peaches), keeping a dairy cow, milking, scimming the fresh cream, making butter and cottage cheese, raising beef cattle, hogs, and chickens, gathering eggs, buying chicks from a hatchery to raise for fryers, butchering chickens and hogs, making sausage, and smoking sausage, ham, and bacon. The land was poor, deep sandy soil, but the Soil Conservation Society had taught my grandfather to peanut farm, by which he was able to make loan payments and not lose the land. | ||
They had little money but I never thought of them as poor. They wanted for nothing, recycled before there was such a word. Their passions were not enflamed nor their desires manipulated by [[Advertising]] rooted in the works of Sigmond Freud as popularized in America and developed for such ill by his nephew [[Propaganda#Eddie_Bernays|Eddy Bernays]]. A | They had little money but I never thought of them as poor. They wanted for nothing, recycled before there was such a word. Their passions were not enflamed nor their desires manipulated by [[Advertising]] rooted in the works of Sigmond Freud as popularized in America and developed for such ill by his nephew [[Propaganda#Eddie_Bernays|Eddy Bernays]]. A great pile of scrap metal from worn out things was heaped before the workshop garage awaiting a project for which the scraps might be used. There was no garbage pickup, only burning of combustible trash; everything else remained piled or strewn around on site. Cans, bottle caps, and scrap lumber were our playground equipment from which we created out of our endless imagination. We knew not to rip the Christmas wrapping paper on my grandmother‘s packages to shreds, because she saved the paper, folding it neatly for use another year. In the attic were stored jars and containers from store bought goods that might be put to good use. All table scraps and garbage from meal preparations were mixed with water and poured in the large crock jar on the back porch for slopping the hogs. Because of boyhood experience of their life, I know that all the blather about economic “growth” raising people out of “poverty” is nothing but yet more [[Propaganda]] of the [[wikipedia:Big_lie|Big Lie]]. | ||
My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. Once rations were used up in the book, no more purchases could be made for that year. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid to the war ravaged and the money pocketed by American contractors, yet another shill game of [[Organized crime]] perpetrated on an unsuspecting American public . And so [[The System]] grew powerful post War by way of [[Permanent war economy]], making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy, | My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. Once rations were used up in the book, no more purchases could be made for that year. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid to the war ravaged and the money pocketed by American contractors, yet another shill game of [[Organized crime]] perpetrated on an unsuspecting American public . And so [[The System]] grew powerful post War by way of [[Permanent war economy]], making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy, | ||