Do we not learn anything from history? Oh yeah. It repeats.

History lesson.  Herbert Hoover’s “Katrina” was the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s.  A horrific movement of dirt and dust carried by relentless winds.  Huge clouds of topsoil blowing over Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and further east.  Millions of tons of dirt blew up from the southern Plaines and carried as far away as New York.

It was called the Black Blizzard of the 1930s.  Often called a “Duster” by the poor folks living in the panhandle of Oklahoma.  Millions of acres cleared off of its prairie grass and left barren.  All because cattle ranchers and wheat farmers didn’t know about proper usage of the land.  Herbert Hoover had no agricultural policy.  There was too much money to make growing wheat and selling cattle.  So, strip the land and use it for all it’s worth.

Then came the crash of Wall Street in 1929.  No one had enough money to buy wheat or beef.  So, millions of acres then lay barren with no place to go.

Soon the winds picked up and then carried the topsoil hundreds of miles into near by states.  The drought came and the rain went away.  Dust blasted the prairie houses and killed the cattle.  And so, it went on and on.  Relentless and most menacing

Mostly because Herbert Hoover took his eyes off the heart land and was only focused on money and big banking.  Certainly a story of misfortune.  However, a story not to far from our present day difficulties.

People out of work.  Businesses shut down.  Land and water resources misused.  Hunger.  Poverty.  School closing.  Law enforcement lay off.  Just general despair and hopelessness.

Sound familiar?  Do we not learn anything from history?  Does anybody even read history any more?  Almost everything that has plagued us recently, has happened many times in one form or another in the past.  When will we ever learn?  The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.