The hillbillies discovered that the moonshine won’t walk itself out of the woods.
threefeetofun on
Yeah, the roads in Appalachia are wonderful…
DrHugh on
Was it Venezuela that had the Libertarian dream of people deciding whether or not to fix roads on their property, so roads were repaired as people saw fit, to whatever extent they wanted, and they could set up toll booths for people driving through? It also meant things like airports were essentially dead, because you couldn’t get enough people together to agree to build and maintain them.
Charming-Command3965 on
Bruh this is such a face palm. 🤣🤣🤣
MicrowaveEye on
The only reason those hillbillies own those machines is probably because they have government contracts.
wickedjonny1 on
Now, if only millions of people like you, with their excavators and independent wealth would fix the rest of our roads and infrastructure, we’d be set.
TheLoneGunman559 on
Is there a cement mixer hiding somewhere also?
Poorly-Drawn-Beagle on
Uh… is it me, or are they not doing anything on the road? The road is in the distance there. The excavators are just sort of in the woods doing… I’m not sure.
eltegs on
I can assure you that nobody in the government fixes the roads.
Willing_Building_160 on
Need more context. Perhaps the excavator was rented for free to help clear the road.
Katsurazeroone on
Well and i was such a Idiot i always thought you need more then just some Excavator to fix Streets like actual Material and other Mashines but aperently not.
Chimera66666 on
Hillbilly friend of mine just bought an excavator at a local auction for $1700. Guess he got one hell of a bargain!
rhino910 on
there are two of them, and the used ones cost OVER $100 thousand
philipmateo15 on
I think that every person who is a citizen should be required to perform community service of some sort, once a year. A, it makes what’s yours, feel like yours and B, it reminds people that what makes our society work isn’t money, it’s people
PantelonesDelFuego on
Because bankers can’t run heavy equipment. It takes us blue collar boys to make it happen.
CLF23456 on
I was amused by the $100K for an excavator comment.
My brother is a farmer in Oregon. He knew he could get a much better price for his grain if he waited to deliver it in Winter. But he needed a way to haul that much grain to port. So he bought a $5K semi truck. Now this truck was no where close to new and barely ran. But it got the job done.
My point is the farmers, rednecks, and hillbillies are very capable of finding solutions to problems at a very reasonable price. I respect them for that.
carverboy on
Some of my friends in Avery county have access to excavators and are doing this very thing. We aren’t quite the stereotype hillbillies.
If I was home I’d be helping them.
Psychological_Ad9165 on
Over 200 ppl have been lifted out by independent helicopters in the last 6 days , zero for the govt , Why do we pay taxes when nothing is done to help these ppl ?
EdgarAllanPonyBoy on
“Rich man in the woods fixing *his* private road”
Suitable-Lettuce-333 on
Who needs roads anyway ?
SuperGenius9800 on
Soon: “Keep your government hands off my FEMA check!”
Key-Moment6797 on
cats being cats, saving thrle day
Moist-vonlipwig- on
FEMA is supplying the fuel and paying the operators.
Jerseyboyham on
They gonna rebuild that washed out bridge too?
InsolenceIsBliss on
You can rent a cat from local dealers or snow plows or other equipment to attach to your own from same rental services.
There is a long standing debate with certain liberatatian groups on these topics.
At the end of the day it could be probably more coat prohibitive in the long run on large scale, but neither r/facepalm nor this shared meme community are the correct audiences to discuss this beyond making/poking fun at humor/humorless content.
Oram0 on
You know you can rent those right?
Tasunka_Witko on
Well, the government foots the bill for those roads with tax dollars. It repairs the roads with tax dollars. The sewer lines that are under those roads for drainage are maintained with….yep, tax dollars.
If you want to foot the bills for all of that on top of running your day to day expenses, by all means, carry on
Scottamus on
Yea I don’t see any road being “fixed” here.
rexeditrex on
Shocking – farmers with heavy equipment! I guess it would be better to sit around and wait and not be able to get food or resources?
SpicelessKimChi on
`Yuk yuk people in cities is dumm yuk yuk!’
Why do rural people have such a sense of grandeur, like living in the middle of nowhere gives you some sort of moral superiority to people in cities. Fuck off.
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The hillbillies discovered that the moonshine won’t walk itself out of the woods.
Yeah, the roads in Appalachia are wonderful…
Was it Venezuela that had the Libertarian dream of people deciding whether or not to fix roads on their property, so roads were repaired as people saw fit, to whatever extent they wanted, and they could set up toll booths for people driving through? It also meant things like airports were essentially dead, because you couldn’t get enough people together to agree to build and maintain them.
Bruh this is such a face palm. 🤣🤣🤣
The only reason those hillbillies own those machines is probably because they have government contracts.
Now, if only millions of people like you, with their excavators and independent wealth would fix the rest of our roads and infrastructure, we’d be set.
Is there a cement mixer hiding somewhere also?
Uh… is it me, or are they not doing anything on the road? The road is in the distance there. The excavators are just sort of in the woods doing… I’m not sure.
I can assure you that nobody in the government fixes the roads.
Need more context. Perhaps the excavator was rented for free to help clear the road.
Well and i was such a Idiot i always thought you need more then just some Excavator to fix Streets like actual Material and other Mashines but aperently not.
Hillbilly friend of mine just bought an excavator at a local auction for $1700. Guess he got one hell of a bargain!
there are two of them, and the used ones cost OVER $100 thousand
I think that every person who is a citizen should be required to perform community service of some sort, once a year. A, it makes what’s yours, feel like yours and B, it reminds people that what makes our society work isn’t money, it’s people
Because bankers can’t run heavy equipment. It takes us blue collar boys to make it happen.
I was amused by the $100K for an excavator comment.
My brother is a farmer in Oregon. He knew he could get a much better price for his grain if he waited to deliver it in Winter. But he needed a way to haul that much grain to port. So he bought a $5K semi truck. Now this truck was no where close to new and barely ran. But it got the job done.
My point is the farmers, rednecks, and hillbillies are very capable of finding solutions to problems at a very reasonable price. I respect them for that.
Some of my friends in Avery county have access to excavators and are doing this very thing. We aren’t quite the stereotype hillbillies.
If I was home I’d be helping them.
Over 200 ppl have been lifted out by independent helicopters in the last 6 days , zero for the govt , Why do we pay taxes when nothing is done to help these ppl ?
“Rich man in the woods fixing *his* private road”
Who needs roads anyway ?
Soon: “Keep your government hands off my FEMA check!”
cats being cats, saving thrle day
FEMA is supplying the fuel and paying the operators.
They gonna rebuild that washed out bridge too?
You can rent a cat from local dealers or snow plows or other equipment to attach to your own from same rental services.
There is a long standing debate with certain liberatatian groups on these topics.
At the end of the day it could be probably more coat prohibitive in the long run on large scale, but neither r/facepalm nor this shared meme community are the correct audiences to discuss this beyond making/poking fun at humor/humorless content.
You know you can rent those right?
Well, the government foots the bill for those roads with tax dollars. It repairs the roads with tax dollars. The sewer lines that are under those roads for drainage are maintained with….yep, tax dollars.
If you want to foot the bills for all of that on top of running your day to day expenses, by all means, carry on
Yea I don’t see any road being “fixed” here.
Shocking – farmers with heavy equipment! I guess it would be better to sit around and wait and not be able to get food or resources?
`Yuk yuk people in cities is dumm yuk yuk!’
Why do rural people have such a sense of grandeur, like living in the middle of nowhere gives you some sort of moral superiority to people in cities. Fuck off.