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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 853487" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>While I was in my sandbox I seem to recall someone saying</p><p></p><p>PS . Sure wish you could have been with me as a pre-teen pulling a cotton sack down rows when it was over a hundred degrees out. Or milking cows and doing a hundred other chores before day light. Then you got to have breakfast. After, you worked until the heat of the day. During the heat of the day we got to go to town so people like you could look down there nose at the lowly farmer. That is unless it is harvest time and you set in that air conditioned cab harvesting from the time the dew dries until it comes down again. When the dew is on you get a break greasing up the machine and a few hours of rest if your lucky.</p><p>Now I don't know what a farm welfare check is. I do know that crop insurance is something that is paid for, just like health insurance. I don't think I would fault someone for using something they paid for. By the way it is also available to ranchers (or beef <span style="color: #FF0000">farmers</span> as you put it).</p><p>Seeing that you are new to this I would like you to be aware that farmers not only have crops but usually have animals as well, which as you pointed out are 24/7. I am sure that there are also those that take advantage of government programs.</p><p>On the flip side I have worked cattle up and down the Gulf Coast and I,m talking about way before 4 wheelers or squeeze chuts. I sat in air conditioned auction barns all over. I have also sat around waiting 9 months for calving ( just describing the job like you do). Like I said I have seen both sides, and I have gone through life listing to others demeaning others for their chosen occupation. I didn't go for it when I was a kid and still don't. I cannot possibly judge what someones life or job is like unless I am that someone or at least experienced their way of life.</p><p>Now I just have to ask you. Just how do you find the time, being a big rancher and all, to observe all these farmers driving up and down the road, burning up all that cheap fuel with government aid money?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 853487, member: 5494"] While I was in my sandbox I seem to recall someone saying PS . Sure wish you could have been with me as a pre-teen pulling a cotton sack down rows when it was over a hundred degrees out. Or milking cows and doing a hundred other chores before day light. Then you got to have breakfast. After, you worked until the heat of the day. During the heat of the day we got to go to town so people like you could look down there nose at the lowly farmer. That is unless it is harvest time and you set in that air conditioned cab harvesting from the time the dew dries until it comes down again. When the dew is on you get a break greasing up the machine and a few hours of rest if your lucky. Now I don't know what a farm welfare check is. I do know that crop insurance is something that is paid for, just like health insurance. I don't think I would fault someone for using something they paid for. By the way it is also available to ranchers (or beef [color=#FF0000]farmers[/color] as you put it). Seeing that you are new to this I would like you to be aware that farmers not only have crops but usually have animals as well, which as you pointed out are 24/7. I am sure that there are also those that take advantage of government programs. On the flip side I have worked cattle up and down the Gulf Coast and I,m talking about way before 4 wheelers or squeeze chuts. I sat in air conditioned auction barns all over. I have also sat around waiting 9 months for calving ( just describing the job like you do). Like I said I have seen both sides, and I have gone through life listing to others demeaning others for their chosen occupation. I didn't go for it when I was a kid and still don't. I cannot possibly judge what someones life or job is like unless I am that someone or at least experienced their way of life. Now I just have to ask you. Just how do you find the time, being a big rancher and all, to observe all these farmers driving up and down the road, burning up all that cheap fuel with government aid money? [/QUOTE]
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