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“The farmers have got their view, but they’re shortsighted — they’re not looking at the country as a whole,” said Mr. Woodhams, who notes that he is a registered Democrat and the son of a Dutch immigrant farmer. “

I've talked about this for years ....

We've allowed so much to be purged from our American fabric, and a couple of basics are reading, and an honest American history.

Our founders had a vision ... not short sighted, and actually a lot further ahead than what we give them credit for.

We are their ..... posterity.

In an agricultural society, land was the means by which families grew, strengthened and stayed. Communities arose and prospered ... around the LOCAL church (not the mega-TV-crap).

Men prepared for his children .... but like the WW2 song says ... "How ya' gonna' keep them, down on the farm .. after they've seen Paree ?"

So now everyone follows a job, not dad, chases money, not cows and so much is lost for the sake of progress.

I don't know what the solution is .. or even if a solution is possible .. but it's something I think about when I wax nostalgic.

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So now everyone follows a job, not dad, chases money, not cows and so much is lost for the sake of progress.

That is so true. Millions of us sit in cubicles doing jobs we don't relate to for giant, lumbering corporations, so we can earn enough to pay for toys we don't have time for and homes we are rarely around. All the while, our kids are out doing their own thing and our extended families are spread all over the globe so we rarely visit. It's become a crazy, indirect life as we all run wildly in different directions. Even the traditional family schedules have been lost; "weekends" could be any day of the week, "suppertime" is laughably quaint. What have we done to ourselves?