 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to RR Conductor
Re: Everyone Rides For Free! said by RR Conductor:1.Obviously, you don't live in a rural area. How does my residence impact the facts I have presented?
said by RR Conductor:2.Your post is full of a lot of propaganda, but few concrete facts backed by actual data. So farmers don't get paid to not grow things, don't get subsidies for crops that are selling at record prices, and don't hire illegals because they are cheaper than legals?
said by RR Conductor:3.You either don't or refuse to learn about rural America and it's needs. It sounds like quite the money pit!
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Coloma, MI | said by pnh102:It sounds like quite the money pit! Nah, the real money pit is Wall Street. 
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Mount Airy, MD | said by extreme50:Nah, the real money pit is Wall Street. They're all money pits. It sickens me to see "rabid capitalists" become commies once their little financial schemes fail.
We should just hang up the old soviet flag all over Wall Street. That's exactly what they have become.
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Franklin, TN | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:said by RR Conductor:1.Obviously, you don't live in a rural area. How does my residence impact the facts I have presented? said by RR Conductor:2.Your post is full of a lot of propaganda, but few concrete facts backed by actual data. So farmers don't get paid to not grow things, don't get subsidies for crops that are selling at record prices, and don't hire illegals because they are cheaper than legals? said by RR Conductor:3.You either don't or refuse to learn about rural America and it's needs. It sounds like quite the money pit! 1) They are not facts, just spin on what some farmers get, not all of them by far.
2) A big urban legend, some farmers only get paid not to grow things when there is an over supply, but the farmer can not grow anything else. A farmer in a certain location/climate can't change to a different crop because it takes different machinery, different growing cycles for rain, climate, etc. It would be like asking a car manufacturer to stop producing cars and start producing airplanes just for that year, then start making cars again next year.
3) Farming has the same problem as the other business; corporate or personal greed. You don't see a lot of mom & pop farms because they tend to be under one corporate umbrella. If you start a farm and have a bad year, you either let the bank come take everything or you sell off. So even though you have a bunch of farms everywhere, they might all be owned by the same food company. When that happens, then you get into the illegal workers and illegal/questionable methods of growing for maximum profit. Farming is a very complex and it has high risks due to the sheer size and effort needed to raise and harvest a good crop.
The long standing stereotype of the red neck riding around on the tractor growing crops are better left for Hollywood. Everything seems to think you just plunk some seeds in the ground, water it and everything just magically makes it your supermarket afterwards, but it couldn't be farther from the truth.
As someone who grew up on the farm and moved to the city after high school, I know that the stress of being a farmer for one week would take out any CEO hotshot at a fortune 500 company. 
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