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bucolic_frolic

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1. "government has no need to feed the poor"

Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:31 PM

Nov 8

The poor to the extent they are able, will find alternatives. Production for household use where they can. Quite by accident this year I had a zucchini vine growing in my lawn. I have no idea where it came from. It was a late plant, maybe around June 1. Well, it wasn't a zucchini, it turned out to be a pumpkin, and the plant is now frost-bitten, the pumpkin is orange/green, a bit larger than a softball. But, it's edible!

My lawn next year will sprout many vegetable plants, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, cucumbers. They can't tax them. Yet. Czarist Russia taxed the peasants output, I think. we'll probably head toward that system.

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"government has no need to feed the poor" bucolic_frolic Nov 8 #1

Very good! H2O Man Nov 8 #2

Nice! Acres of land in a river bottom...soil must be rich as heck! SWBTATTReg Nov 8 #3

It sure is. H2O Man Nov 8 #8

These are the things that restore sanity and health in society. malaise Nov 8 #7

I think there is H2O Man Nov 8 #11

Bob speaks for me - we need to SNAP out of it malaise Nov 9 #16

Punkin juice! GreenWave Nov 8 #5

I'm hoping it's large enough for seeds bucolic_frolic Nov 8 #9

I used to H2O Man Nov 8 #12

Words of a Christian Nation lame54 Nov 8 #6

I remember when H2O Man Nov 8 #13

Your last paragraph gives me real hope - by working together, for each other, we can mend the wounds. erronis Nov 8 #4

I like to think H2O Man Nov 8 #14

They claim to be Christians as they sue to keep food from the hungry. spanone Nov 8 #10

You might find H2O Man Nov 8 #15