We don't need blacksmiths much any more either.
Things change. And the family farm is going the way of the craftman and the apprentice and journeyman system.
Curious how you feel about limiting farm subsidies to $250,000 per farm. Do you think a lot of farm corporations are making their money on government subsidies, thus sucking the family farmers out of the business?
Around here, an awful lot of the cotton goes unpicked and plowed under and I don't think it's from lack of pickers. My husband thinks it's deliberate scamming and says some of these corporations are cut up into a lot of little pieces on paper so they can apply multiple times for subsidies.
When I said farming, I do mean crops or trees and the farms are leased by entrepreneur growers. The families are gone and the land belongs to corporations or land development companies for the most part.
Chicken houses are a popular family farm and they are often owned on credit to Tyson.
I don't know how much subsidy stuff they receive. if any. i have never seen unpicked cotton or anything else, and all land is in use for something.
I was against the farm bill. It was far too expensive.
I don't look at things as to how it benefits me. I never have. I never will.
We rake our own damn leaves here. Nobody that I know gets money to do nothing.
But the one fact I pointed out and it is very true, that without migrant workers, what little tax base we have would evaporate.
Arkansas gets most of it's budget from sales tax and government revenue sharing. There is a large underclass. They survive on assistance. I don't know how but they do. Lots of elderly. As i said, the kids must get out.
Lots of retired rich whites come here for the low cost land and homes.
Strange place. I am stuck here however.