Fishrrman's credo:
Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be.
No one in Congress -- Republican, democrat-communist, socialist, independent or anyone else -- is going to do anything that deals with the national debt and the deficit until there is no alternative other than to fix those things.
By a credo like
that, numerous insidious diseases would never have been cured, to name one example. (Today's government would say, to anyone who tries to cure one without the blessing, sanction, and often the financial approval of the State,
You wouldn't dare!.) Because, you see, there were too many proclaiming there wasn't yet no alternative . . . and a few men and women of guts who replied, in effect,
Who died and left orders for us not to even try?Whatever happened to the can-do spirit of this nation, which also knew how to tell the government
no-can-do regarding the things it should keep its cotton-pickin' hands off in the first place? (Like about 95-98 percent of the things it has its cotton-pickin' hands on in the first place?) Or
did we manage to educate our children and grandchildren out of it, after all, in our lovely State-propagandising schools?
If reality was too much what it was in 1907, an asthmatic janitor in Zollinger Department Store in Canton might have ignored the impulse when he thought to take a sewing machine motor, mount it to a carpet sweeper, attach a fan to the back of the sweeper, attach a pillow case or some such thing
there, sweep away the dust successfully enough to relieve his asthma, and convince his cousin Susan---after refining the contraption and applying for and receiving a patent for his "Electric Suction Sweeper"---to take it on after he couldn't mass produce it. Cousin Susan had a husband who could, who then ran a leather-goods business but was well enough to do to make mass producing Spangler's contraption possible. William could, and did, beginning in 1908. And the Spangler contraption became the first portable such mass produced-for-the-home "suction sweeper."
You may remember William's surname---Hoover.
