Replies

Old Sam is a consummate liar...years back when he was on TV talking about doing away with small farmer incentives, someone dug out the fact that old sam had a farm and was getting incentives on the mohair as he had a flock of angora goats......wellllll, at the time I was also raising angora goats and it took a lot of book work to receive the incentive, and he made the stupid comment.....well, the government just sends him the money. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE. if you were selling even 1 pound, you had to have the buyer even put down their SS number on bill of sale so they could check up on the sale. Bulk that was shipped to Texas was less paper work, but I had a lot of doll artists that bought by the single pound and wig makers that would buy only a pound or two.....let one of our best yearlings grow hair to 12 inches (that meant skipping one shearing and my husband and I would shear that goat for doll shows. Our professional shearer taught me to hog tie a goat properly or you would never get it sheared.....that 12 inch hair went for 70 dollars a pound, the regular length was 6 inches and that went for 7 dollars a pound, the amount of incentives you got depended on the price you sold the hair for. Cheaper hair got way less incentive. I could go on with this for a few more paragraphs, but you get the idea. You took all your sales to Dept of Agriculture in your town and from there it was checked and sent to Washington.......Yep they just sent good old sam money and he wasn't going to refuse it...he made his dumb statement when he was on the Sunday shows when someone surprised him with the question..