S. Carolina

As is my my habit, I was reading Mature Landscaping this afternoon and found that I had a comment on my mind after reading about the Lt. Governor of S. Carolina, a certain Mr. Bauer. And if you read the post I have linked above, you can read it as well. In short, he says that the citizens of S. Carolina...the poor citizens of S. Carolina are lazy. And he thinks the cure for what ails the state is for these lazy citizens to do their part and start picking fruit or cotton or whatever is to be found to be picked. To get off the welfare rolls!

My comment is as follows...

As a citizen of the scarlet center of California; that part where agriculture is king, we have to put up with fools who parrot that 'lazy citizens' talk all of the time. There's a reason that people don't get jobs picking fruit or harvesting whatever...it takes a good deal of skill and no farmer will risk his crop to rank amateurs. But for simple minded politicians like Mr. Bauer, the truth is better left alone especially when the alternative to the truth gets the electorate all fired up with indignation. And no farmers will correct the fool; they're republicans as well!

I was going to put the comment in the Comment section of the blog and go about my business...but I couldn't find a Comment section. I looked everywhere and then decided to simply write about it here instead.

I am not well acquainted with S. Carolina. Around 2002, I drove from one branch office in Charlotte down to another office in Atlanta. Like most of the southeast, it's lush and green everywhere you look. But we were on the interstate and so my memories of S. Carolina were that it's the fireworks capital of the nation; there are places to buy fireworks, year round, at just about every off ramp. Also at the off and on ramps were Waffle Houses and usually one on each side of that particular exit. Third, I've never seen so many billboards on an interstate and I'm talking about the biggest ones I had ever seen! But, like most states, the view from the interstate is always misleading. I do remember saying that when I retired and stopped traveling for a living, the south was the place I wanted to revisit first.