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Yet in Europe you're never more than 10 miles from farming land. America, with those vast expanses of land, is rather different.
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The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland -
I like farmers. I have lots of farmers in my family. They're all decent, well educated and hospital people. A little xenophobic perhaps, but who isn't?
This should be a multiple poll btw, I'd vote "Hardworking and prosperous" AND "Protectionist SOBs"
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Are you sure it's not just one farmer? Who just appears in your family tree several times?Originally posted by Gangerolf
I like farmers. I have lots of farmers in my family.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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No, there are more than one. Unless he can run three farms on two contintents at the same time. And be a woman on one of them. You never know.
wait, are you implying that I'm inbred
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Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Are you sure it's not just one farmer? Who just appears in your family tree several times?
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I assume the farm country Laz came from is the same one that came up with scrumpy.
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Because farmers are people, and people tend to be different from one another in various ways.Originally posted by The Mad Monk
I believe we have shown that the "farmer (perception) gap" is indeed very real.
The next logical question is, "why?"Comment
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just a little more info, if anyone cares.
While I'm not much removed from farming, I know nothing about it.
My mother's family was into farming. They had many acres of land in Maryland. They still do. All my aunts and uncles still have the land, but they don't use it for farming. Or if they do, they have other people work the land.
But I grew up in the city, and in the desert. Nothing grows out here unless you give it lots of water. I know nothing about farming.
Like I said, most farming in the U.S. is done by legal and illegal immigrants. You don't see many "farmers" in the U.S. anymore. Corporations run everything.Comment
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This part of the public would prefer removing trade barriers with Latin America and Africa. If some European farmes went out of business, well, fine by me.Originally posted by Wezil
Perhaps the public should pay the actual cost of production? Political suicide (I'm not opining on validity of the proposal).
For the record, my mother grew up on a farm, and I lived next to one as a kid. Several childhood friends were farmer's sons. So I believe I've got about as much insight in modern Western agriculture as you can expect from someone not directly involved in it.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Originally posted by Azazel
From what I gather on this thread, your farmers are weird.
I've been to a kibbutz.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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The soul of the nation...KH FOR OWNER!
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DT - Love that sig line.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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It's funny cuz it's true.
KH FOR OWNER!
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THAT NIGGA IS EXPLOTING WORKERS IN THE LARGEST COMMIE NATION ON THE PLANET!!!
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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