Here’s to the bolt manufacturers
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Old Del Latta, excuse me, Bob Latta (who says we don’t have royalty), thinks “It’s very important that we thank farmers in this district and in this state right before people cast votes for me.”
Maybe I paraphrased that last bit.
Okay. Farmers feed us. Less than one percent, feeding the world, etc. But what about the bolt manufacturers? I bet it’s way less than 1 percent of the population working in the bolt industry, and what if we lost them tomorrow? All our tractors would fall apart, not to mention everything else. Everybody’d be sitting on their arses on the Interstates, like in one of those insurance and/or global warming commercials, pretending to drive a car the way a six-year-old might, but not having any car to drive.
Do you want that? Do ya? Huh? Let’s hear it for the bolt manufacturers, and maybe give them a little subsidy, what?
(I think the Blade just wanted an excuse to use the phrase, “cleans teats” in a news story. But give them kudos for the closing sentence: “Farmers know when manure is being spread by politicians.” Only, I don’t think it means what the farmers think it means.)
