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re: Meandering Agriculture thread
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:11 pm to jimbeam
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:11 pm to jimbeam
I don't get it, either. I know a bunch of elitist, urban folks who have no use for anybody who lives in the country. All they see are tractors, pitchforks, bibles and guns, and none of them work as hard as the farmers I've known. Frankly, I see big cities as parasitic growths. Farmers can live without the cities, but the cities would literally die without farmers feeding them.
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Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:12 pm to jimbeam
quote:well, it damn sure does. i don't personally know any corporate or non family farmers..... If yours don't poor mouth, I love you and yours... If they do, you and y'all ought to be ashamed... The US govt. hasn't sent me any checks to help my business make it through the last 5 years...
Doesn't happen in most cases of family farms.
This post was edited on 11/11/12 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:13 pm to jimbeam
I have a bigger problem with energy subsidies than farm subsidies, but i'm not a fan of farm subsidies either.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:19 pm to Ole Geauxt
I'm talking about lariats, ski trips and that crap. I don't usually bitch about this shite. The OT thread just got me all worked up.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:20 pm to jimbeam
quote:
The OT thread just got me all worked up
Yet another reason not venture into that cesspit.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:28 pm to jimbeam
I love farmers and I have checks written out to them all the time. Then sometimes I really piss them off and they hate me. The ones that try to cheat the system I dont care for. And if I find it I will bust them for sure.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:29 pm to jimbeam
quote:
i guess you hate most farmers then
I have a problem with subsidizing private business, so yes. It leans more socialist than I would like. i am strictly a free market guy.
If you subsidize one, do it for everyone. The businesses I owned never had the luxury of welfare. It is what it is.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:36 pm to Salmon
quote:
farmer gets bailed out by the government
I can assure you in 08 when Ivan came by and wiped us the frick out there was no govt "bailout"
Most of you people have no clue what you are talking about.
Bailouts, subsides, welfare.
This post was edited on 11/11/12 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:37 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
bullshite. If the majority of Americans that couldn't manage to feed themselves died off, it would be a HUGE step forward. Last week proved that.
Merfing this
I love farmers but do have a problem with subsides, all of them, not just the agriculture ones.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:39 pm to jimbeam
The gubment is way to involved in agriculture.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:41 pm to Ole Geauxt
quote:
1. I Don't hate farmers.
2. I love farmers.
3. I grew up in a family of farmers.
4. I have a real bad problem with farmers that are always poor mouthing.
5. Please don't poor mouth while driving your 4x 250's, wife in mercedes or suburban, kids in 4x 150's, etc. Going on 2 week cruises, ski trips couple times a year, etc.
6. I'm tired of that stuff, maybe I'm just jealous?
FWIW, Just my IMO's
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Every farmer I know has it made and only works 6 months out of the year at most.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:48 pm to jimbeam
quote:yes, that is primarily what i was talking about, ie: "poor mouthing" while at the same time doing all that. the secondary and less pertinent part of my response was concerning "subsidies"... i have mixed emotions on this. i know that a farmer can get wiped out, but so can anyone else that has put his life in his business..
I'm talking about lariats, ski trips and that crap.
i do know alot of farmers and their actions, including the ones i mentioned concern me.. If you have a great couple of years, why not try and get another year out of that piece of equipment instead of buying another one cause it has more gadgets? Why not let the wife drive her suburban another year instead of getting a new one? in most cases, the farming generation preceding this, certainly was not as frivolous as some of todays farmers.
i'm sure not all farmers are like this,,, and some are not gonna read that statement,,,,,, BUT, alot of the ones I know are like that.
I repeat, I love farmers.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:50 pm to Ole Geauxt
What you described describes our farm and most farms I know around my area. The only ones I know different are those with oil wells, which we don't have.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:54 pm to jimbeam
quote:I'm old, help me out.. Which part of my "description" describes your farm?
What you described describes our farm and most farms I know
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:56 pm to jimbeam
People just have different political points of view. A century ago, Farmers were attracted to the socialist point of view for this reason and subsidies are a huge part of liberal government.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 12:58 pm to Ole Geauxt
why not try and get another year out of that piece of equipment instead of buying another one cause it has more gadgets? Why not let the wife drive her suburban another year instead of getting a new one?
Posted on 11/11/12 at 1:04 pm to El Josey Wales
6 months? Come on man
Posted on 11/11/12 at 1:05 pm to jimbeam
quote:And you do realize what percentage of the American working people can get new trucks, 150K pieces of equipment, suburbans every two years, vacations, etc. AND still get subsidies as well, right?
instead of buying another one cause it has more gadgets? Why not let the wife drive her suburban another year instead of getting a new one?
I'm gonna back on out of this one, cause i want to still be able to say "I love farmers"...
Posted on 11/11/12 at 1:07 pm to Ole Geauxt
Yep. I do. I'm not saying subsidies for all. Corporations running hundreds of thousands of acres with next to no risk do not need them.
Posted on 11/11/12 at 1:12 pm to willeaux
quote:
6 months? Come on man
5 months?
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