Sept. 26, 2017 - Steve Pieczenik
04:41
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| Hi, this is Dr. Steve Pachenk. | |
| This is Steve Talks. | |
| Hello, America. | |
| I want to explain a little bit as to why I've been away for the past two weeks. | |
| And the reason is quite simple. | |
| Hurricane Irma came in in a very vicious way. | |
| She tore up our trees. | |
| She tore up our lakes. | |
| She flooded my backyard. | |
| She made sure we had no power. | |
| She made sure we had no food. | |
| We had no electricity. | |
| However, the beauty of a storm like that is that it's agnostic. | |
| It doesn't care whether you're white, black, Democrat, Republican, Northern, or Southerners. | |
| But I will tell you something that's very unusual for me. | |
| As a product of the North and the Northeast elite, so to speak, I found out that the so-called rednicks in the rural South are the most wonderful people I have ever worked with. | |
| They're gracious. | |
| They're kind. | |
| They're smart. | |
| They're intuitive. | |
| They care about each other. | |
| And the basic Christian values of taking care of your neighbor is something that is very real in a hurricane. | |
| People came over to my house to help me with a generator. | |
| They came over to my house to help me with the food. | |
| They came over to my house to help me with ice. | |
| I, in turn, went over to other people's houses to help them in concert. | |
| We had trees that were destroying houses. | |
| We had trees that destroyed the roads. | |
| We had trees that had been destroying businesses. | |
| But despite all of that, we the rednecks and we the people of the rural South got together without any inspiration from the North, inspiration from the federal government or even our local officials, and we got together to rebuild our neighborhood in North Central Florida. | |
| We not only got together, but we made sure that Clay Electric was able to help us. | |
| We want to thank them. | |
| We want to thank Comcast. | |
| Unfortunately, Windstream did very poorly. | |
| So did some of the other companies. | |
| But the following companies did extremely well. | |
| Williamson Grocery Store. | |
| Blue Water Bay, Chipini's, Ace Hardware, and many other stores all came to the forefront. | |
| We want to thank them for having turned around and helped us out. | |
| I was able to go to a liquor saloon where a young man without any teeth and many tattoos just gave me ice for free. | |
| And in turn, I gave him a $20 bill and he said, no sir, I'm not selling the ice. | |
| And I said, young man, I'm not buying the ice. | |
| I'm giving you money for your cigarette. | |
| And he smiled and he laughed. | |
| I also want to make sure that you people understand what it means to be in a community where you help one another, where you're able to take out the trees, where you're able to swim in the water which is clean, where the water is regulated not by some federal government agency, but it's regulated by a local community. | |
| And in this case, we had Tisdales. | |
| The family was helpful. | |
| And making sure that we had water and clean water in certain areas. | |
| Unfortunately, some of our commissioners were not all that effective, and particularly, I would say, Bradford County. | |
| They were heavily paid by us, but not one commissioner showed up a week or two weeks later to see how we were doing, how their own people who paid them the highest amount of taxes, and including the county manager, Brad Carter, And all of the others who are well paid. | |
| These are the ones who were concerned more about RV parks, an intrusion from a foreign company called Frontier Insurance, run by Willis King, who had been at Cornell University, and has a frontman named Vincent Esson, and then we had in Union County, Mosaic Minds who came in and tried to strip us of all our good deeds and strip our community of our good will. | |
| And in turn, we went to Union County and we said, no more intrusions that we can stop. | |
| So together, we, the rural South, got together. | |
| We, the rednecks, got together and we said, you loot, we shoot. | |
| So I want to thank you, America, for listening to what I had to say and what I will continue to say about the great quality of the American people. |
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