[B4Ranch]

I'm wondering where the anti-farmers are. Did I explain life too clearly for them?

[Straight Vermonter]

I think you are mistaken that these people are anti-farmer. They are actually anti-welfare. The computer hardware business is very up and down like the farm business. It has a lot of factors outside of their control, like foreign currency markets, economic trends and inventory loads. Much like weather, market prices, foreign competition effect farming.

I don't see anyone rushing forward to help those in the computer biz or those who sell to them. The small farmers, in VT its dairy farmers, no longer have a workable business model. The federal government offered them a way out in the 80s with the "Whole Herd Buyout". Many farmers took the buyout, waited the required number of years and are now back to dairy farming.

I respect that for these folks it is much more than a job, its a way of life, but that does not excuse them reaching into my pocket to pay for their way of life.

[lara]

I know. I just don't get it. Being anti-farmer is the same as being anti-American.