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Could you imagine if this excuse-making was applied across the board for every person facing a difficult/challenging situation? We would all sit around lamenting how deep a hole we are in, without ever endeavoring to figure a way out. And America was built on figuring a way out, and the rest of the world should go to school on that. "They should be taught updated farming...."? How about they get informed and do it themselves. It's not like information is tough to come by in 2003. These people have brains, they have just been let down by a socialist/excuse-making culture over the past 50 years, which has turned them into a mess.

I think part of the problem is that these dirt farmers don't really have enough knowledge. Their governments just keep subsidizing them without any effort to actually teach them to be self sufficient. Many of these people can't read. Few probably completed school.

There is no real independent method for them to learn other than word of mouth. There is no internet for them. Libraries are pathetic, out of date, and any good ones are too far away to be of use. Imagine if the closest library to nebraska was in washington DC. Not making excuses, but we have to see what these people are dealing with. The have their blind folds removed only to have a government which is working overtime to put blinders on them.

They have no history of rugged independence. Their schools and governments are opposed to that sort of thing. To them responsiblity is in the form of collective social interests. It is a diffrerent way of thinking when you whole country is in one time zone and barely the size of Georgia. (no open spaces there)

This could easily be by design too.

Many European banks offer 0% interest farm loans. Then the same banks go to the EU and individual governments with demands for fiscal control through cutting farm subsidies. The farmers dependend on the farm subsides, are unable to pay the principle and the properties are forclosed. The bank then groups parcels together and sells them as larger units.

The problem will correct itself. The poor saps just don't know they have always been roadkill in the EU works.