The town in which I live was once known as the sock capital of the world. That is until all the Free Trade Agreements sent our companies running overseas and to Central America where the labor and real estate are cheaper. If there was another world war we no longer have the factories here to convert to defense building plants. We no longer make things! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that our economy is dieing because we no longer produce anything. The fewer people in the work force paying taxes only creates a drain on our country. We have got to find a way to bring jobs back to the states, that's the only way to bring our economy and standard of living back. I can remember when there was 125 sock mills in this town. If you lost you needed a job you had no problem finding one. Now there are only 5 left and it has had a devastating effect on the town and it's dwindling population. One by one more and more businesses are closing and work is getting harder and harder to find. We have got to find a way to bring our jobs back state side or there will be more and more towns like mine that was once the home to something.
Can I Call The Crows Daddy
Sitting in the corn field on a cool fall morning with my dad, watching him call in crows and shooting them. As we sat there he explained that if we didn't shoot them they would eat the corn before we could it all gathered in. I was about five and he would sometimes let me call them in for him. I can remember sitting so close to him that I could feel him breath. It was so warm sitting next to him. I felt protected from the world. We would stay out and shoot til about mid morning then we would go back to the house. Sometimes daddy would then go and work with some of the other men gathering their corn and mama would work on our field. We worked on the half with the man who owned the land. What that meant in those days was he got half of everything that we grew. I remember watching mama pull the corn off the stalk and throw it in piles on the ground. I can close my eyes and see the piles across the field and they looked like they all had the same am...
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