I agree & have been trying to explain this to my family to no avail. sad because they’re making poor financial decisions, and I just have to sit back and watch. I think we’re going back to a time when America was Great and farmers, etc had respect. more agrarian…Washington thought everyone should have their own land, a place or their own.

“The phrase refers to the independence of the peasant farmer who is freed from military oppression.5 In the biblical passage there is a juxtaposition of the simple life with that of royalty or the state.6 Thus, it would seem that Washington's use of "vine and fig tree" in its full context would be an appropriate message in the setting of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.“

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/vine-and-fig-tree/

I agree & have been trying to explain this to my family to no avail. sad because they’re making poor financial decisions, and I just have to sit back and watch. I think we’re going back to a time when America was Great and farmers, etc had respect. more agrarian…Washington throught everyone should have their own land, a place or their own.

“The phrase refers to the independence of the peasant farmer who is freed from military oppression.5 In the biblical passage there is a juxtaposition of the simple life with that of royalty or the state.6 Thus, it would seem that Washington's use of "vine and fig tree" in its full context would be an appropriate message in the setting of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.“

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/vine-and-fig-tree/