out of the ditches

Well there you go then, you help pull people out of ditches, and they have pulled you out of ditches and the net results is the streets of Cheboygan (I have been trying to come up with a name for your neighborhood.  I sort of want to call it Greater Beaglesonia, but generally when a country, ahem, freehold, is surrounded by a greater, they tend to want to be willing, nay passionate, to sacrifice every drop of their blood until every square inch of the greater area is part of their own native land) are humming with vehicles and people are going to work and to the store and to the church and the tavern, and everybody is so much better off than they would be if everybody was in the ditches.

Likewise across this great nation, we all take care of each other.  Certainly those FEMA funds go out to all the poor fools who don't have the sense to live in that nice wet inland land that god scraped the glaciers over and made it nice and flat, and, except for that somnolent New Madrid fellow, nice and still, and end up with all those hurricanes and earthquakes.  And if people somewhere are poorer, we help them out, and generally the problems of one area are the problems of another area, and we all help each other out and we feel others will help us out.

Well, not exactly.  It's not quite like friendly, but eccentric, Beagles pulling up in his pickup truck and dragging out the chains, when it comes to the Federal government, it's a little more like the cops pulling up and wanting to know why you are driving on that road, and let's see your license, and let's inspect that vehicle, and maybe you ought to go to driving school.

Oh it's not that bad, but still, if you are going to spend your hard-earned (used to have to walk clear to the mailbox to get that social security check, anymore, well you don't have to do anything) taxpayer money pulling fools out of ditches, you kind of want to make sure they are decent traffic-law abiding citizens, and not a bunch of drunks.

In conclusion we should all help each other out.  Beagles shouldn't just shrug off black poverty as not his problem because there are no blacks in Beaglestan (Greater Beaglesonia), and I should be concerned that those crazy carp are flip flopping their way into the great lakes.

I think we should vote on more than our best interests.  We should also take into account what's best for everybody.  I'll just leave it at that because it's getting late.

Do you have problems with Mexicans?  Do they refuse to pull your car out of the ditch?  Myself I don't see any problem.  I am sure this new group of immigrants wandering through Europe, many of whom are some kind of Christian, is being admitted to ameliorate the situation which we started when we went in and broke Iraq.  Does anybody remember why we did that anymore?  

I don't know why you want a bunch of Europeans to come here.  Most of them are commies and socialists, and they are happy enough with their commie socialism, that they don't want to come to the USA where we can't even pass a fucking budget, and the dominant political party doesn't even believe in evolution for Chrissake.