It was a disaster but the threatened Mayor new that Uncle Sam wasn't about to change its mind. The county and town had been chopped off the map and the hundreds of thousands of acres of thick forests were now owned by the federal government.
The disaster started when the federal government closed all their coal mines and hundreds of men were ravaged and forced to food stamps and welfare programs. After the destructive floods last year the men started taking the fallen trees and opened their own saw mill to saw and size the lumber for sale.
The federal government came in and forced the men from harvesting the land, even their own land.
The county and little town was removed from the maps like they never existed.
The coal mines were closed and logging was prohibited so the great forest would rise again and the pure winds would blow over the protected soil.
The men were in danger of losing everything as they were bought out by the government, lock stock and barrel.
These were now the new waste lands for people and there would be no more miners or happy farmers and from horizon to horizon the good people were removed.
Due to the energy calamity the government was revising all the zoning laws, restricting land and even brought in heavy equipment to destroy entire towns so the land could be protected.
A man could not till his own soil so the land was no longer productive and all across the United States people were moved and watched. The geography of the country had changed since China made their claims and the rivers were full of dead men and blood flowed they were told.
Shallow and sluggish people voted for this disaster creeping into their lives but they were also walking away from their land and homes.
This wilderness called America once rich was now destroyed.
The tragic collapse was foreseen but few men trusted the rules of the constitution so the government experts came and watched the trucks being loaded, the dogs caged and the towns closed.
They would have buckwheat pancakes this morning waiting for the cast iron skillet to heat over the open flames of the campfire.
They were required to travel at least ten miles per day on foot but much of that effort was spent gathering food from the weathering fields of corn and wheat.
One man heard that Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama was already empty of people except for the government troops guarding pipe lines and railroad tank cars of oil coming out of the gulf of Mexico.
They heard the stories of pastures being set on fire and thousands of gallons of milk being spilled on the ground. As they walked they saw the slowly starving cattle and the dogs turning wild but they kept watch and kept moving.
The government told the farmers that their suffering was over and the people would buy their land. Most of all the cattle was shipped down to the ports and exported to Mexico because they had good pasture lands.
Meat packing plants were shut down in America but the food stamp relief fund was little help.
There was little hope and becoming poor was made easy by the government. Vast areas was planted in corn but now it was government corn. In Tennessee the government experts were now shooting people after they grew tobacco and smoked it in their pipes.
It was simply called retired land so the cotton would not be planted and the people were urged and forced off the land.
America the wilderness.
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