Re: Be gracious in losing...as well as winning

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 16, 2002 at 16:37:07 from (64.228.12.185):

In Reply to: Be gracious in losing...as well as winning posted by Marty Hundley on May 16, 2002 at 14:08:50:

A very senceless action, too much afluence, teenagers comming home to empty houses from school. The saddest item of all is too many generations away from land. My dad taught his own five sons to drive a tractor in a controlled envoirment. They had to be doing something useful around farm. Raking hay with a side delivery was a good one. He also took the time to show just about every kid in the neighbourhood. In the forties and fifties there was always a mass migration of city kids to Granpa's or Uncle's farm and they all learned how to do constructive work.

It was said on this forum not more than six months ago,"There was a time in this land when every school kid in New York city knew what the front end of a Farmall M looked like." Two to three generations later that connection is gone. If governments around the world keep pumping subsidies into corperate farming, what little bit we have left will be gone.

As president Bush made that anouncement just this week, I can see the SELLERS OF FARM SUPPLIES pushing the percent button on their calculators. The family farmers of America will not get to hold onto one nickel of this.

There was a time in North America when farms of America were the driving schools of America. I know a man probably 45 years old today. My dad had him raking hay when he was 8 years old not for 3-400 bales a day but 2000 bales a day. Today he is a long haul trucker, trucked in every mainland state includeing Alaska and every province in Canada. He has yet to put a dent on a motor vechicle.

MY FRIENDS, GOOD HONEST WORK WILL TEACH THEM ETHICS!!!!!!

Follow Ups:

• Re: Re: Be gracious in losing...as well as winning Honkey 11:11:14 05/17/02 (2)
  • Re: Re: Re: Be gracious in losing...as well as winning Ron 07:30:30 05/18/02 (1)
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