Re: Re: Re: lack of respect

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 22, 2003 at 15:22:24 from (64.228.13.64):

In Reply to: Re: Re: lack of respect posted by FC on April 22, 2003 at 13:05:48:

FC: I am probably a bit out of touch also as I have been out of farming for awhile. Yes, I could see this problem becomming worse every year. Here in Canada governments have been awfully slack putting good trespass laws with teeth into effect. They kind of view this as a hoohum area that doesn't matter. Lets face it there a lot more voters out there without land than with.

I heard a good one back a few years ago, farmer watched from his door yard as a police cruiser pulled up by his woodlot. The officer went into bush and cam back out with a Christmas tree. The farmer becconed to his hired hand to drop what he was doing, grab the chain saw and come. They jumped in pickup and followed cruiser back to town, where the officer got his tree out and put in garage, then went in the house. The farmer said to hird hand you watch from pickup. He took chain saw , went up on lawn, cut off one of a matched pair of blue spruce. He was putting it in truck when the officer came out yelling," who the h$$%^ do you think you are cutting one of my trees. The farmer responded," you got a Christmas tree from me, had the gaul to haul it home with taxpayers money, so I'm just getting one from you." He got in his truck drove home put up the blue spruce for a Christmas tree and that was the last he ever heard of the matter.

Governments passing out money to agriculture in the form of subsidies hasn't helped matters either. Of course everytime this happens the politicians get about ten anouncments out of each program. By in large those programs have done little for the farmer as the farm supply businesses gobbled them right up. What it has done is make the public believe that if this much taxpayers money is going to agriculture then it's a public resource.

All things being equal I suspect you probably have a worse problem on your hands than it was 20 years ago.

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