Sometimes You Just Gotta Get Your Hands Dirty

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I had an interesting conversation with a beautiful and creative young lady the other day. She had grown up in this area, in a rural community, with good family values and a strong work ethic. After attending an artsy design college she landed a job in New York City on Fifth Avenue designing store fronts, a job she enjoyed for three or four years before moving back to the Midwest. Her part of the design process was taking an idea from sketch to reality.

I had to giggle at this and ask, “Did you ever have to change the plan to fit reality?”

She admitted, the plans changed daily, from paper to store front and said, “I would look at the plans, and then say to the designer. ‘Alright, now this is how it’s gonna go down.’ ”

It reminded me of when my brother was alive and building grain handling systems. He used to talk of educated idiots with grand schemes and ideas who didn’t know anything of the real world. They were shiny, though, when it came to engineering degrees and pomp and circumstance. He recalled a story of one day when he told the engineers ‘how it was gonna go down’ and they were standing around scratching their heads, pounding on their calculators and finally admitting, “It just can’t be done.”

To which my brother retorted, “Put your calculators away, Boys. Sometimes you just gotta get your hands dirty.”

To say the least, he wasn’t very popular with the suited engineers, especially after he built it the way he designed it to make it function better in the real world.

I said all that to say this. It reminds me of our President, his czars, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and others. It’s not necessarily just Democrats, there are plenty Republican idiots too. Many have degrees and accolades that take up walls and walls but lack common sense. They spend hours in their offices, pounding on computers, building their perfect world but know nothing of the real world. They look good, smell good, can rally crowds, and have no dirt under their fingernails.

Maybe that’s the problem, no dirt under their fingernails. Somewhere along the way we’ve traded the value of a good work ethic and common sense, for degrees and initials after our name. And even worse, rewarded laziness with free food and health care. Is that what America is about? I don’t think so. America was built by hard working forward thinkers, some highly educated, some not. Don’t get me wrong, there is much importance in education. When combined with hard work and real world experience, it’s unstoppable.

Some of the finest folks in America got their start by scooping poop to dig the foundation for a great thing. It’s those folks that can tell you want your building your plans on…sand or rock. Yes, they have dirt under their fingernails and smell funny when they get home with their meager paycheck. But, they shouldn’t be discounted. They have pride and knowledge, pay taxes and vote. They are We the People. I am one of them. We are the ones that have great real world ideas. We go on to build small business, employ other good people and make this country America.

Mr. President, Congress, House of Representatives, Governors:  Instead of surrounding yourself with more Ivy League educated idiots with crazy ideas. Take off your smoking jackets, put your peace pipes and brandy down, quit talking philosiphy and get out in the real world. Embrace the working and tax paying American people by LISTENING. Now is the time to make hay while the sun shines. If you want to build something functional, sometimes you just gotta get your hands dirty.

Simply,

Sis

PS ~ If you agree with this, you are not alone. Join others like us by joining your local 9/12 project, read the book Arguing With Idiots, and Common Sense.

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