Mark Willemse

Accepting graciously the blessings God has given me. Passionate about my town #Knysna. Serving as an Independent Councillor

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.

One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.

The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.

Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.

She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.

To recap.

600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.

Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.

The shopper picks the almond.

She has been told this is the ethical position.

The aquifer would like a word.

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

Arriving to the club in style for the semi-final 🌞

#ETFvWOR | #FollowYourTrail 💚

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𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗨𝗽 🔥

5️⃣0️⃣ caps for Dougie Bridge
🫡 Taylor at skipper
🌞 TFSC set for a sunny semi-final

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[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@Maddu_550 205

[KnysnaMunicipality @KnysnaMuni]

CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR COSTLY 📢

Ongoing power outages in Greater Knysna have been further exacerbated by the theft of electrical cables, resulting in disruptions to electricity supply and street lighting in several areas.⚡

Report theft to the Police at 10111. 📞

[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@BarneySimon Black rusk! 😜

[KnysnaMunicipality @KnysnaMuni]

BURST WATER PIPE | HEUWELKRUIN 📢

Our plumbers are attending to a burst pipe close to Oakhill in Heuwelkruin.🚱 Residents in Westhill Drive, Erica, Uitsig & a portion of Faure Streets are affected. 📍

Unfortunately no timeframe is available.

Updates: 044 302 6331 / 6334. 📞

[KnysnaMunicipality @KnysnaMuni]

MULTIPLE POWER OUTAGES 📢

Further information indicates that Eskom lost a unit, impacting the electricity supply from George to Plettenberg Bay.

For further updates, please contact the Electricity Helpdesk at 044 302 6397 / 6399.📞

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WE’VE DONE IT!! A FULL SEASON UNBEATEN IN THE LEAGUE!

#ETFvBED | #FollowYourTrail 💚

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26 battles. 26 victories. ✅

An incredible regular season recorded. Next up - the playoffs.

🎟️ https://t.co/qhFiCEw7g2

#FollowYourTrail 💚

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

For the final time in the regular season, it's matchday 🤩

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𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒎'𝒔 𝑼𝒑 🔥

💪 Kernohan returns
💥 TC at Fullback
⚔️ Montgomery at Eight

#ETFvBED | #FollowYourTrail 💚

[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@Martin_ASFL I just want to go to the Mars Bar 🤦🏻‍♂️🍻

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

THE WINNING STREAK CONTINUES! 🤩😍

#WORvETF | #Followyourtrail 💚

[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@Gosleepriya 2

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💥 Campbell at 1️⃣5️⃣
🎯 Willemse at Hooker
🔥 5-3 Split

#WORvETF | #FollowYourTrail 💚

[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@Simi_2210_ 3 , simple math!

[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@pookiepolls I would vote the same as I did then! We all had hope for a better future for our country and still feel the same today. Apartheid was wrong on so many levels.

[Mark Willemse @Knys_Guy]

@BarneySimon @ProfTimNoakes SAP College Pretoria 1983.
“Jy is lae as slangkak se skaduwee”
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