Loud crickets

Dang, that’s a tear jerker! Unfortunately it’s the sad reality we are all facing. About 30 miles away in Taylor,TX, Samsung is building an enormous facility. It has everybody all worked up. Some are of the mind set that “oh it’s so good for our town”, I’m not one of them. There is very little good to come of it. A money grubbing developer has already purchased a big chunk of land and started the construction of 600 new homes complete with parks and a school. That’s on the north edge of the city limits. To the south of town where the Alcoa smelter was, a couple of bit mining companies have moved in and the rest of the plant and 30,000 acres was bought by another developer and they are supposed to be going to build a whole new community out there. Again, “oh it’s so good for our town”. It isn’t, not in any way. The only jobs being brought in will be the same jobs that are already here that they can’t fill like fast food and convenience store jobs. Out of 10 good paying jobs created 9 of them were filled before they got here by a Californian, a Chinese National, or an Austinite that they either had in mind when they created the spot or that they created the spot for. So the natives get one out of ten. It will and already has caused our taxes to go up. The land prices have skyrocketed, and properties are being sold right and left to jackasses moving in on their 3-20 acre “ranches”. There are bonds and grants you can get to fix roads and utilities. All these new comers aren’t going to make this better. They left and got away from a train wreck only to come here and try and make it what they left. I live in a small town for a reason. I raised my kids, up until now, in a small town for a reason. Progress isn’t always a good thing and everything that happens isn’t always progress. I’m old school in about every way imaginable. This site is the extent of my social media. I don’t do FB, or Snap chat, or any of those social media things. I think they are HUGE contributors to so many problems in our world today. We are the dumbest smart species in the universe! I love my dogs, but more and more I look at them and wonder what the future holds for them. I’m scared for what my boys are gonna face in their lifetime and I pray I’ve raised them to be strong and independent because they are gonna need the Good Lord and a whole lot of strength and independence to get through it. All these places being developed here are doing the same thing, ruining habitat. And all the little ranches popping up on what use to be sizable properties are ruining the hunting and neighborly mind sets that use to be so common here.

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