Chamber pot, slop jar , piss pot, a Jerry, a Jordan, a guzunder, potty or thunder pot. These are all names many of us may be familiar with. And if you had grand-parents living oi rural America as late as the 1960s and you visited them you may have used one. And by using, I mean not for shits and giggles(pun intended), but because that was the only option you had in the middle of the night, unless you wanted to trek out to the outside to the out-house.
My maternal grandparents lived in north central Georgia and that was exactly the situation. We were also given baths in galvanized washtubs with (what we perceived as freezing cold) water drawn from the well in a bucket. And for those of you wondering, no I'm not putting you on.
The house that my Mother grew up in is long gone. In the place where that hose stood is a trailer. That trailer is used by a distant cousin (3rd or fourth) as an insemination lab. His father started buying up all the old family property in the late 70s. Now my cousin and his sister breed cattle there (and no, I don't recall the breed).
I lay all of this out to point to something else that my mom grew up without in her early years, electricity. She and her parents were recipients of FDR's rural electrification program known as REA. REA was used as both the name of the Act and as the name of Federal agency that oversaw the program.
Recently President Obama called for some programs that are reminiscent of those instituted by FDR. In several quarter these programs have been mocked and derided. And I'm sure without much effort we could find similar comments about FDR's programs. President Obama wants to bring high-speed internet to rural America. The irony here is that probably most of those who will benefit from this, voted against him. But that doesn't matter to President Obama. It's about equal opportunity. It's about not leaving anyone behind in their ability to benefit from what most of us take for granted.
He also called for High Speed Rail (HSR). This too has been derided by many (mostly GOPpers) who think this is unnecessary. However, in this case. it's not just rural America that will benefit from HSA. We all will. At this time outside of the North East corridor from DC to Boston, Rail Service is seen as quaint. Far from it, but Big Oil would like us to continue to believe that it is. Their profits are at stake.
There are a multitude of reasons to take on just these two proposed projects that would be great for America and Americans in generations
to come, but the best reason, and the one the GOP and there Chamber of Commerce cronies don't want to see happen because it would benefit President Obama, is JOBS. Taking on these projects would benefit hundreds of thousands Americans with JOBS and the last thing the GOP and the CoC want right now is Americans to have the benefit of available jobs. They see the unemployment rate and the uncertainty of jobs for John Q. Public as their way back to Power.
And to bring this back around to today's theme Piss Pot. I'm sure most of you have heard the phase; "... and I don't even have a pot to piss in." It's a description of poverty and or unemployment and if you can't even afford to have a pot to piss in, The GOP and Big Business, Big Oil and the Chamber of Commerce feel as John Boehner has put it "So be it". In other words to working America, Boehner and his moneyed constituents say a big hard FUCK YOU!
On with the games!!
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