The Last Cowboys

Today's Thoughts By Jeff Head 8/4/12 The Last Cowboys

I always liked as a child growing up watching all the cowboy shows. Free hard working independent men and women putting together wagon trains and then enduring a two or three month journey out west. Some shows were made depicting a small rancher holding their own out in the middle of nowhere or perhaps herding cows from one place to another. Always though, tough rouged men and women that through whatever life threw at them, handled it all by themselves, without government intervention.

In today's world, I like to think of truck drivers as the last cowboys, out here on the open road taking on the world thousands of miles away from home. Traveling desolate highways where if something was to go wrong, help could be hours away if you could find that help at all. Doing all of this with just as much independence as the cowboys and cowgirls that built this country so many years ago.

The difference I see in today's world is the government cannot stand to see a person that can get through the trials of life without them. They are no longer trying to build a strong country like years ago when strong men and women were needed to take on the Wild West and conquer it to build our country strong. People were respected back then for being able to deal with whatever came along. In today's world though, weak people are needed by the powers that be to be dependent on the government and as the last cowboys, we most certainly stand in the way of this new goal.

Could this be the reason for all the new regulations that keep coming down on not only the trucking industry but every industry in America? To make whatever remains of a strong spirited free individual so unable to stand on their own two feet that just to survive they have no choice but to finally break down and suck at the teat of big government.

EOBR's, mandatory sleep testing, EPA regulations and so much more that continue to come our way, each have a debilitating effect on the trucking industry especially if you are a small operator. Each in their own way takes away one's ability to survive out in the wilderness and all of those regulations as a whole, well that is just murder on the trucking industry, the last cowboy. Each added burden takes that once proud cowboy able to take care of him or herself and brings them closer to needing the government to survive. Each nail the government can drive into our independence makes them stronger and thus takes away the very thing that built our country strong, our independence.

Safety, a very important thing out here on the highway; I will give no argument there, but what about us as a nation. What about creating a strong independent population, does this not matter anymore? Could it be that cowboys are no longer needed or wanted in today's world? Is this why they are slowly and methodically destroying our ability to be independent, to be cowboys? I think so.

The order of the day is no longer to build our country strong but to gain power through making our population as dependent upon big government as they can. Cowboys such as us truckers tend to only get in the way of this goal. We simply cannot be tolerated. Our spirit has to be broken if they are to win the day. One by one with each new "for our safety regulation", another cowboy succumbs to the pressures and walks away from the free standing spirited person that they once were out here as a trucker on the highway. Another cowboy gone so to say, another back broken.

It's a sad thing to come to this conclusion. To see our country killing the last of the cowboys, the very cowboys that for generations grew our nation so strong. To sit back and watch as we see our lifestyle slowly being replaced by whatever some government official has in store for us. Personally, I think it is time we circled the wagons and started to fight back for the life style we so much love. This next election is a good starting point for that. And after the election, we need to come up with new and inventive tactics to save ourselves from this new wilderness we find ourselves in. I'm thinking our cowboy spirit will rule the day and with luck, they will never see us coming.
Bring back the cowboy spirit that grew us as a nation


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