Here in Md. they paid farmers not to raise tobacco for ten years.
The ten years is about up.
Many barns have fallen down equipment has rusted and fallen apart, farmers have found other jobs.
Most could not go back to raising tobacco even if they wanted to for these rason and the fact that a labor intensive industry has lost it’s labor force.
Much of the same will happen in new England, Boats will all apart, nets will go bad and fishermen will find different jobs or go on the poublic dole.
This is the great plan. Yes it’s stupid, but it will happen, the fishing industry in new England will die, and foreigners will soon be fishing our waters.
They have for decades. Back in the late 70s the Federal fishery managers made a point of telling us that as far as they were concerned who fished our waters was all about who would pay them the most money.
They did not care about our jobs, lives, or anything else, just about the money flowing into Federal coffers.
American commercial fishermen only pay into the Treasury tax money which is insignificant compared to what a state sponsored foreign fishery operation is willing to pay.
The effect is happening as planned and is devastating to those involved. The more devastating the better. Lessons to others and all that.
Most commercial fishermen either already have other jobs shore-side, or are too old to start over... which leaves the later with humiliation, food stamps and welfare.
I know a third generation tobacco farmer who is calling it quits this season. He’s sold all his barns and is going to plant grains.
This is the great plan. Yes it’s stupid, but it will happen, the fishing industry in new England will die, and foreigners will soon be fishing our waters.
Do you ever get the feeling dems want to destroy the country? That they don't really care about the fish or tobacco or anything - they just 'get off' on making other people miserable?