Today, my husband witnessed a wondrous act of resourcefulness. A man with a horse trailer hitched to his truck was filling up individual 5 gallon jugs of gas in order to transport them back to New Jersey. He went out into the wide world of American plenty that lies just beyond disaster. He didn’t wait like a hopeless fool in a line of idling cars for gasoline that is rationed by the spoonful. His neighbors hired him because he had a big, gas eating truck, and gave him money and jugs and sent him to Lancaster County to go shopping. He brought back not only gasoline, but food, water, clothing, blankets, batteries, and other things they might need. Those people are heroes, because they used their God-given talents and brains and didn’t go crying to the cameras, asking for the government to come and help.
This is what we’ve come to. You’re out of stuff, so you go where there is stuff and get some. Maybe a bunch of you get together and do it, for greater efficiency. In today’s America, that’s what onlookers call a ‘wondrous act of resourcefulness.’
This lady calls the participants heroes, with not an ounce of apparent irony. It just seems like simple common sense to me, but then I suppose that phrase isn’t meaningful any more. “Common sense” may have become an oxymoron in Schumer’s and Pelosi’s America.
Actually I wouldn’t be at all surprised if these people were committing some obscure federal crime. Something to do with interstate commerce, no doubt.
Oh gawd yes. Probably no sales tax permit. No hazmat certification. No food handlers license. Trailer uncertified for commercial use. Failure to keep required IRS records. Vending in violation of local zoning regulations. Hell, you could do a ‘net meme and probably come up with dozens more.
In hope he saves the taxpayers the expense of investigation, prosecution, and incarceration — just concedes he’s a dangerous felon and gives himself up to the cops.
It occurs to me there is some imperial thing about purchasing large quantities of fuel with intent to cross state lines. I’m sure the tax loving people of NJ would object violently to this scofflaw NOT paying the proper ransom per gallon on that go juice. He truly needs to be brought to justice.
For the children.