The struggling farmer...2013 farm bill

UGUIDE said:
Oh yeah, and the media will have a feeding frenzy on the topics of class warfare and income inequality to get the pot all stirred up.
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Yep. A very old and worn out tactic if you ask me. Regardless, it still carries some stinging power for all too many people:rolleyes:

Nick
 
I would be happy to make low interest farm land acquisitions to beginning farmers who grow a "food", item crop, or meat, not cotton growers, not corn for ethanol, not hemp producers, with a caveat/easement to provide for sensible environmental protection, determined by USDA property plan. We could do that at 0.50% interest, and still have an asset a beginning farmer could handle. How bout letting producers pay the insurance freight entirely? They can go without it, which is an option we don't get with health care! By the way, the dirty little secret of crop insurance, is that the agent, gets to keep a percentage of what he settles the claim for under a less than total loss. I will believe most do not know this, your agent will not tell you, I did insurance agency loans, believe me I saw it on paper and in the bank. So in a nut shell, the government subsidizes the premium, allows commission to the agency to mitigate losses, so we pay a percentage of the premium, and a with percentage loss, the borrower/farmer, gets a short coverage. Win. Win, for the Insurance Agency. You can assume what goes on with auto insurance, disability, and current health care! The insurance mantra, is get a good premium, by giving assurances, but seemingly spent the entire time after sale, to mitigate the expenses. My Dad was an Insurance company actuary by the way. He had excellent coverages.
 
Just another thought, we used to elect politicians who were statesmen, no matter where they come from, they always kept the home district involved for government contacts, local armed service bases, I can site a couple, in Kansas City the dike along the Missouri River is higher than the dikes before and after, 1951 flood was to blame, the Army Corp. of engineers did this.... Harry Truman was the president..... Missouri has 2 Federal Reserve Banks, more than any other state, reason? Harry Truman. When it came to national security, he excused these local preferences, as did the Republicans and Democrats that were in office to safeguard the country entirely. Now it's a free for all. All we can grab. Our businesses regardless of field of pursuit, have been allowed to disregard the ethic of value of work, the value is what they can get a way with. I did some research on income by Physicians, I assumed that Neurologist, and Cardiac specialists would be the highest paid, conversely the are much lower per capita than the average Physician! Loss is the ethical value of work, there have always been Barons of Business, but social ridicule made that an uncomfortable station. Witness Carnegie, and Rockefeller gave fortunes away, they did what they did in business because they could, it was the prize, and worth the risk, smart, inventive money was not the primary reward. Money promotes power, it is the rule! We used to have 10 golden rules, now it's just one! Our farm policy is just another example, not the worst by far, of all government policy's and probably better than having no farm bill at all.
 
oldandnew said:
Just another thought, we used to elect politicians who were statesmen, no matter where they come from, they always kept the home district involved for government contacts, local armed service bases, I can site a couple, in Kansas City the dike along the Missouri River is higher than the dikes before and after, 1951 flood was to blame, the Army Corp. of engineers did this.... Harry Truman was the president..... Missouri has 2 Federal Reserve Banks, more than any other state, reason? Harry Truman. When it came to national security, he excused these local preferences, as did the Republicans and Democrats that were in office to safeguard the country entirely. Now it's a free for all. All we can grab. Our businesses regardless of field of pursuit, have been allowed to disregard the ethic of value of work, the value is what they can get a way with. I did some research on income by Physicians, I assumed that Neurologist, and Cardiac specialists would be the highest paid, conversely the are much lower per capita than the average Physician! Loss is the ethical value of work, there have always been Barons of Business, but social ridicule made that an uncomfortable station. Witness Carnegie, and Rockefeller gave fortunes away, they did what they did in business because they could, it was the prize, and worth the risk, smart, inventive money was not the primary reward. Money promotes power, it is the rule! We used to have 10 golden rules, now it's just one! Our farm policy is just another example, not the worst by far, of all government policy's and probably better than having no farm bill at all.
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Gone is the competition in business. We use to have laws in place to prevent a monopoly on any given type of business. They done away with those laws. Hens why Wal-Mart has more wealth then the bottom 42% of our countries entire population. If you spend a dime now, it travels though the hands of the 1%ers. We are a slave to them long before a slave to the government, but they own and run the government as well. Until they are broke down and lose their strangle hold on your very survival. We will only continue to falter as a society. The new Pope touches on this very well all around the world.
 
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