Amish find refuge in Wisconsin (after all, farming will survive!!!)

Yahoo! News ^ | March 26, 2004 | E.A. Torriero

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[KillTime]

Do the Amish consider themselves Americans?

I would imagine they do since they are livng under the freedom of worship America provides them. I also occasionally see groups of Amish touring DC like many patriotic citizens from all over the US.

[dennisw]

I saw elderly Amish tooling around Sarasota on big three wheel bicycles. They like to spend the winter there. They ain't stupid.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"We raised the price three times, thinking they would just go away, but they kept coming back," said Napp, who along with her husband is in her 60s and has raised five children in the dairy industry. "We hated to sell, but we finally gave in."

Why does this statement bother me?

They gave them a price, raised it three times and then finally sold. But, they didn't want to sell. In a pigs eye.

If you don't want to sell, you say no, you don't give a price and then jack it up three times.

[upcountryhorseman]

God bless the Amish! They have preserved farming methods that are self-sustaining and treat the soil as a treasure.

[Wiser now]

Ooops! That does NOT mean they go to bed smelling that way! Sorry. Better learn to proof better!

[Museum Twenty]

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[Meldrim]

They are doing OK in Aroostook County Maine.