You can pick your friends

Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands.

You can’t rely on anyone else to help you.

After a tax increase of 2,153%, that’s right over a 2000% increase on roll your own cigarette tobacco …

Don Carey took matters into his own hands.

Carey, 49, decided in April, when federal taxes on tobacco skyrocketed, to grow his own.

”I thought it was an April Fools’ joke,” he said of the tax increase that sent taxes on roll-your-own tobacco up 2,153 percent.

There is something ”fundamentally wrong about picking on the smokers all the time,” said Carey, whose experiment with growing tobacco comes as President Barack Obama last week signed the strongest anti-smoking bill in history. The measure gives the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco for the first time.

Carey went on the Internet and found places where he could purchase tobacco seeds.

Within about a week, he had received 40 types of seeds and his life as a tobacco farmer was planted.

Cary admits he has much to learn, but you have to admire his attitude.

Be it the Feds, the State or your Local Government … when the time comes to rise up against the establishment I want someone like Don Carey on my side.

How about you?