Posted by oldtanker on October 02, 2018 at 06:59:07 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: The Future Of Farming posted by vicinalvictor on October 01, 2018 at 06:22:47:
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OK you are the one who kept going on about people being below the poverty line. I was giving you actual numbers, not those muddied by a political party or the news media. No you didn't say 50%. But you indicated that the numbers were high.
I use AMTRAK as an example. Actually I did some research about a year ago concerning mass transit. The vast bulk of riders including buses (also subsidized) make over 60K a year. To be honest I was very surprised by that number. So much so that I checked those numbers through several sources. Seems that's why no one will vote to end the various subsidies. In the inner city yes there are a lot of poor who use public transport. But in the city, say NYC a lot of people who can afford a car choose not to have one because of the hassles of parking and availability of public transport. If they wish to drive sometime they rent. Even there most people riding work but because of traffic conditions don't drive. It's been an issue for many years.
What I said is that the small farm is dying. If you go look at the numbers they are. Maybe only 20-30 per year per state but if you look that number drops every year. And I see it here. I know the families. Dad working himself to death, mom working a job in town and JR bolting for the door the second he has his diploma in his back pocket. Out of all the farmers I know farming less than 1000 acres and few farming that and maybe a little more, who's kids are young adults, 1, that's it 1 has a kid who stayed on the farm. I think we are fast approaching a short time frame where over the course of 10 years 1000s of small farms will go away because the current owners will all be retiring close to the same time.
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