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Farmer vs. State Agent

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Steven f/AZ

01-04-2008 10:21:01




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A Man Owned A Small Farm In Indiana.

The Indiana State Wage & Hour Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.

'I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,' demanded the state agent.

' Well,' replied the farmer, 'there's my farm hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board.

The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $150 per week plus free room and board.

Then there's the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.'

'That's the guy I want to talk to --- that half-wit,' says the state agent.

'That would be me,' replied the farmer.

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LenNH

01-11-2008 12:47:15




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
Reminds me of a story I read somewhere. The EPA or one of those agencies was going to fine a farmer for damming up a stream. You can't do anything like that these days because the feds are watching everything like that from satellites and can tell when somebody makes a pond OR drains one. The farmer wrote back and said that he was forwarding the government letter to the beavers who had built the dam, and that the feds could sue the animals if they felt they should. Guess that stopped things.

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Bob Kerr

01-05-2008 07:58:41




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
I know a guy who works for the Indiana State Dept of labor. I bet he will get a huge kick out of it! I better tell him to put pillows around his chair before he reads it to make it ISOSHA compliant.



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Mike Farmer

01-05-2008 02:54:56




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
Boy are you lucky. Seems to me you,ve got all the bright ones. MTF



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tom Windsor

01-04-2008 17:10:21




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
:-)



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Steven f/AZ

01-04-2008 16:55:04




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to JT, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  

Hugh MacKay said: (quoted from post at 15:25:02 01/04/08) Steven: I can readily see bureaucrats in the US are not much brighter than bureaucrats in Canada.


LOL - are bureaucrats anywhere bright?



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CityBoy-McCoy

01-04-2008 16:17:28




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
HAW-HAW! (HAW-HAW = sincere belly laugh) That is one of the best ones I have heard in a long time. Thanks for sharing with us. mike durhan



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Hugh MacKay

01-04-2008 14:25:02




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
Steven: I can readily see bureaucrats in the US are not much brighter than bureaucrats in Canada.

I was once talking with a senior bureaucrat in Halifax. He was trying to impress me on just how efficient the publc service had become. I quietly turned to him and asked, "How would you folks ever measure that, I mean I'm having trouble even comprehending how that could even be determined. You folks are 5 generations away from anything that resembles efficiency." For some strange reason he didn't want to talk with me anymore, at least he told me our meeting was over. That was his mistake, my next stop was a satire magazine, they made mincemeat of that guy.

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georgeky

01-04-2008 11:59:00




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
Steven, that is the best one I heard in a while.



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Balatonm

01-04-2008 10:53:25




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 Re: Farmer vs. State Agent in reply to Steven f/AZ, 01-04-2008 10:21:01  
Thats funny, some state agents arnt the brightest.



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