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Post by Swimmy on Mar 29, 2010 21:10:58 GMT -5
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Post by countrygal on Mar 29, 2010 21:35:56 GMT -5
I have no idea what a "Marshall" plan is. There are a lot of ideas out there floating around about how to fix things, but that's about all that's happening. And yes, the person that commented at the bottom is right - to a point. The subsidies that farmers get sometimes do go to the wrong person. There is a certain talk show host that has a big "ranch" and he gets a farm subsidy. Hardly seems fair. We milk 450 cows, yet some people call us a factory farm. We are NOT a factory farm! We are a family farm and we used to hope that our sons would take over. Not so much anymore. And a lot of farmers feel the same way. So what's gonna end up happening is that farms will go away because farmers aren't encouraging their children to follow in their footsteps. One of those people was complaining about not knowing if he was purchasing local food. Well, how's he gonna feel when it comes from another country because American farms are all but gone??!!
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 29, 2010 22:25:57 GMT -5
If I may simulate eruditiion for a moment. The Marshall Plan was a plan named for Sec of State George Marshall tom rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
At the risk of sounding nationalistic, I cannot think of another example on this scale of a country rebuilding friend & foe alike after a war.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 29, 2010 23:24:05 GMT -5
I think one talk show host that gets farm subsidies is Don Imus, from Imus in the Morning. He runs a large ranch, and dedicates a lot of his time to handicapped children, but the ranch is a tax shelter and a home to him. It is not really a productive and working ranch to the best of my knowledge, and with his money, he damned sure doesn't need a government subsidy to make a profit.
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Post by countrygal on Mar 30, 2010 7:39:13 GMT -5
I was actually thinking of David Letterman. Most of the people like him, use it as a tax write off.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 30, 2010 7:53:33 GMT -5
Old North Dakota joke (Probably exist in some form in every farming community):
A Norwegian wheat farmer wins the Reader's Digest Sweepstakes and is interviewed by the local newspaper.
"What will you do with your winnings?"
"Yust keep farmin" he replies "until the money's gone."
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