one better than two

ONE BETTER THAN TWO


As much as you all are really, really excited about hearing all about my Bob The Builder projects, I simply couldn’t stretch it out into a full length article. It is friggin hot out and my brain is emitting steam. Not the usual ozone burning smell when I’m trying to think but the actual boiling water gas as Sol cooks my grey matter. Okay, 95 may not seem too hot to you, but here in the high desert where the body is accustomed to mostly cold weather it makes for a hot day. So my thinking cap is askew and barely functioning. Thus, I’ll just steal an idea from The Three Amigos over at http://tslrf.blogspot.com// . I didn’t get a chance this morning to catch up on any other blogs, but I’m sure I’ll get around to mining them for free ideas.

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Last weekend I decided to lower the travel trailer off from the tires and put the axles on cement blocks. I should have done it two years ago but I’ve just now stopped trying to fight the indecision of staying here or not. I could move three miles down the road to the paid for lot but the bike commute is hard enough as it is without adding another six miles a day to it ( I’m already at twelve ). And if I buy a moped then I’m spending as much as I would just staying here and making lot payments ( I wouldn’t buy a Chinese do-it-yourself maintenance unit but rather a they-can-repair-it-at-the-motorcycle-shop Jap moped. The moped because of gas mileage and lack of insurance. So, you’re looking at two grand plus, and interest ). So I’ll just stay put until forced to move. That indecision was keeping me from making any improvements. Now, I’m just a roof away from the pit and I’m now skirted. The skirting was about a hundred bucks for pink rigid board insulation. With some of it tucked under the overhang lip, some in a shallow trench, and some dirt thrown against the bottom, only about a foot is showing. I’ll get around to covering it with mud next week. Twelve friggin hours to lower the thing and skirt it, with legions of mosquitoes feasting on my blood and the far away neighbors learning new combinations of profanities.

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One income is far better than two, as I’ve preached at you before. Big picture wise, employment encourages females to believe they are free and independent and don’t need a male for any other purpose than procreation. Hey, if there was more money in it I’d be happy to earn a living as a sperm donor. But unfortunately the receptacle is a sterile beaker rather than a living organism, almost no one in their right minds could conceive of a horde of little Jim’s running around and as long as we males ( mostly ) retain power there is no way we are going to be caged up awaiting the menstrual cycle of the next mother. So, sorry FemiNazi’s, but we’ll just have keep doing it the old fashion way. Penetration! ( gasp! Faint ). I know that image shocks you, but a lot of things natural are less than sanitary. Why, you should hang around the commode three days after I eat a bunch of deviled eggs. Anyway, as much as I love to piss on the parade of the feministas, we’ll wrap it up concluding that regardless of your stand on who should be allowed to wear your testicles, the fact of the matter is that single parent children will, all things being equal, grow up less well adjusted. I don’t want to piss off any female loyal minions, so let me say this as delicately as possible. Fems should stay home and raise children. I would prefer them barefoot and in the kitchen, also ( but that could just be me ). And no, in the workplace, a female is not always equal to a man. You have at a minimum 20% less muscle mass. You cannot be trusted to pull an unconscious man from a fire, or a wounded buddy from a foxhole. Hey, we have a lot less nurturing ability with the offspring. It isn’t a contest, it is recognizing nature rather than the propaganda of carpet licking butch ivory tower liberal professors. Men’s bodies can’t carry a child and women can’t carry a lot of weight on their shoulders. Without petroleum slaves, women would never have taken a break from their traditional roles. Deal with reality.

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From a purely economic standpoint, two wage families are pretty stupid. And I was saying this way before the current Depression. Almost anyone who works maxes out there spending. The bills equal the wages. In 99% of the cases a two income family will spend all they make. A larger home or apartment, an additional car payment, more work related expenses such as clothing. More money on making up for lack of domestic home chores getting done. The instant food rather than the raw food. The clothes dryer rather than the clothes line, or, I’d wager, the Laundromat drop off service. The child care. The diaper service ( or, to get up to date, disposables rather than cloth ). The store veggies to replace a garden. Multiply that by every chore not done by a working mother and things add up to close to or equal what is being earned in the second income. You can have nicer things, granted. But you have gone from a domestic self-sufficient home to a totally consumerist reliant home. You are now less independent. Money does not equal independence. You are totally dependent on your job. Granted, most of us are to varying degrees. But you have no margin of error. One person loses a job and the whole household is in dire jeopardy. In a one income family, if the job is lost you suffer just as much. But there is a slight difference. On one income, you were already a lot more careful with your money. You had half the debt. You lived without a lot of luxuries. When dad loses a job, mom can fill in temporarily until he finds another. There is a slight income dip, but not 50%. One income, the partners can switch. Two incomes there is no way one person can stop working. You halve your risk.

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Now, if you do this voluntarily, now, before one of you get laid off, you can use the two income family as a prep strategy. Downgrade your living arrangements ( give a trusted relative room and board for child care, mobile home rather than house, older car, etc. ), then one pays all the bills while the other pays off the land, buys an arsenal, stocks wheat, etc. You don’t have a lot of time, the economy will continue to head downhill.
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