Time was when a sense of community was valued. But that was before Big Nanny and her highly-paid micro-managers took over. Now, community increasingly is overridden by government inspection and fees.
The Bastrop fires were the latest example. Volunteer firefighters from all over Texas, following a long-established tradition, rushed to help, only to be turned away by government for an alleged lack of training. Similar to the volunteers, rushing to help after Hurricane Katrina’s flooding of New Orleans, who the feds rounded up and sent to Atlanta for—get this—diversity training.
Bastrop fits with the current trend for bureaucrats to outlaw kiddy lemonade stands and threaten to regulate (if not eliminate) independent bake sales for church and school fundraisers. Gotta keep us serfs in our place. It’s our job to pay the “fair” taxes that keep the ‘crats rolling in dough— individual initiative could threaten their livelihoods.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 