In the Buggy

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Ohio is beautiful.  At least outside of their union politics.

Except in Berlin.  There, the Amish ride in their buggies wherever they need to go, seemingly to not have a care in the world.

We travelled the back roads there to catch a glance a glance of their lifestyle.  Men, dressed mostly in black trousers, and a kind of top hat, with their wives clad in ankle length dresses buttoned to their neck, and finished off with a white cloth cap.  Children were abundant in the school playgrounds, and were separated by gender. 

We watched as men gathered together in the fields to harvest corn and grain, cutting everything by hand and loading it onto a horse drawn wagon.  In comparison, a few farms away, huge machines did the job much quicker and better.  No phone, electricity or power tools of any kind could be seen in the possession of the conservative Amish.

But back in towns away from the Amish, things were quite different.  Union halls lined the streets of Cleveland where worker waited in lines outside.  Not much of the heavy industry is left following decades of strikes forcing them to close.

As we explored deeper into Democrat controlled areas, in particular upstate New York, the left wing liberalism became more apparent.  New York has considerably higher fuel prices than any state we have travelled since leaving the west coast.  Even higher than Chicago!  Highway toll roads are necessary to use because the other highways are filled with pot holes.  One toll exceeded 48 Dollars!

Cigarettes cost a whopping $8.95 a pack.  Now that's up from the aver Five Bucks anywhere else.  Now, I'm not a smoker, but that is crazy.  And it is because New York has a state law placing a minimum price a retailer can sell the sticks.  Now that's not capitalism is it?

New York also has a state law mandating that two adults be present whenever a swimming pool is in use (even in your own back yard).  How's that?  No midnight swims alone.  No kids swimming with only a single parent present.  Wonder what all the single moms do?

Over taxed, over regulated, causing over priced goods.  Count your blessings for those stuck in California.  But you are only a Pelosi click away!!
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