Donna has left a new comment on your post "The Call Is Being Answered By Our Farmers
9:47 while sitting warm and cozy watching everyone else do all they can to help out in this time of need, please tell us what you have done?
In your demented way of thinking it is a farmers civic duty to plow roads with their $250k+ pieces of equipment built for working the fields, please tell us who is obligated to make the payments, pay for maintenance and fuel. Then tell us who will make the payments and pay all other expenses when the farmers can't get in their fields until late spring due to all this snow. Then tell us where your next meal will come from, and don't say the grocery store. The grocery stores and restaurants will be SOL if the farmers can't produce food.
Who's responsible for the collapse of the 50+ chicken houses? Is it your civic duty to go out and help rebuild them so you will have chickens to throw on the grill this summer? Guessing on the low end of 20,000 birds per house that's 1 million birds that won't make it to the grocery stores and restaurants. They can't be rebuilt in these conditions so will have to wait until spring, that brings the houses up to working condition sometime in late summer. So now we're down approximately 3 flocks or 3 million birds, or more, IF they are up and running by July.
So instead of telling everyone what the civic duties of a farmer is, in your opinion, why don't you get off your ass, go out and find the money to help these farmers rebuild or replace what they are losing right now. If they can't grow food or chickens until late in the year they lose money and won't be able to pay their own bills.
You of course won't care when it's the farmer losing their ass as long as they are out doing what you consider to be their civic duty.
You are an A$$!
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i have always wondered who would pay and the liability issues if something was to happen.
ReplyDeleteI applaud the farmers for helping, but it truly is not there problem and heaven forbid if they hurt someone by accident or hit a car
And who the hell is "Donna" to decide what a farmer has to do for the area he/she lives in? I agree....what an ass!
ReplyDeleteDonna, very well said.
ReplyDeleteAmen! The government has done nothing but make it harder for the farmers (and everyone else who doesn't work for them) to make a living and now they have the gaul to ask them for help! It's one thing to help your nieghbor out of the goodness of your heart, but quite another to be expected to help a corrupt and incompetent entity because they aren't up to the job at hand. I'm sure they will use this extreme weather as an excuse to spend millions (or billions) more on more snow removal equipment anyway, so nobody owes them any favors.
ReplyDeleteI have never once heard of a farmer helping with snow that hit a car or hurt someone.
ReplyDeleteBut the FARMER is the one who would be liable if he did, so ONCE AGAIN, this kind-hearted person is putting himself at risk.
To all you farmers, God bless you!
To "Donna," you said it, girl!
I love our farmers! Without them, we don't eat! I do not feel that it is their civic duty to go out and help stranded motorists. If they choose to do so, may God truly bless them! I feel like we should give those whose chicken houses collapsed, a hand and am willing to do my part. It's time that we take care of our own before sending money to other countries!
ReplyDeleteI agree 100%!!!!!!!! My husband has had his tactor out helping neighbors and he said snow is so hard on the equipment.
ReplyDeleteAnd who do YOU think anonymous 9:45 is? I've been doing this long enough to know there's only ONE person out there that would say that and that fat piece of shit is sucking off the taxpayers 24/7.
ReplyDeleteDonna, you couldn't have said it better. Thanks for your insight. God bless all the farming community in our county and a great big "thanks" to all those you have helped over these past few days.
ReplyDeleteDonna, just perfect. You also could add there have been no chicken houses built on Maryland's eastern shore in over a year because government agencies cannot agree on rules and regulations. Farmers have not been unable to obtain building permits for construction. With government in such control of farmers it might take several Julys to get up and running. (I am not sure if this also applies to Delaware and Virginia)
ReplyDeleteTomorrow is Saturday, and monday is President's Day.
ReplyDeleteMaybe local churches (at least the ones who have some members under 70), local organizations like the Red Men, Lions Club, etc, could form some teams in their local neighborhoods, and go around and help those who need it... finish digging people out-- especially the older ones. Maybe check on the ones from your church to be sure they've been taken care of.
It's short notice, but it might be a way to start an ongoing program to have teams ready to help out during storms of any kind (and NOT WAIT FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO COME BAIL US OUT!!)
Farmers have a "civic duty" to plow public roads? Wow, talk about this commenter having a sense of entitlement! It sounds like it could have been a line out of Dr. Zhivago.
ReplyDeleteThere is at least 3 Farmers out Meadowbridge Rd and Phillips Rd needs a lot of kudos. If it was not for them no one would be on those roads. They were out at least 2 hours yesterday just getting a one lane path for us and assisting several sightseers getting stuck.. Choptank truck said there was snow as high as his pickup on Meadowbridge this morning and wanted to know if the County every come down these roads. I told him yea when it melts so it looks like they are doing something. The County has never touched these roads. They cleared Jackson road yesterday. I quess their tax money is better than the rest of us out in the same area. Farmers generosity is only appreciated when people are getting their services for nothing. They are are very generous and humble breed which 95%of the people who never knows nothing about this trait.
ReplyDeleteFist of all I know a lot of people will jump this post, but have at it. I know a lot of farmers and I can say without a doubt farmers get more bailouts than any of the rest of us around here! The weather is too wet the fields are too dry. There is too much rain, there is not enough rain. The crops dried out, the crops are covered in mold. In 20 odd years I have NEVER heard a year that some farmers are not recieving monies for losses. Every year my farmer friends are getting new vehicles for themselves or for their wives. They are buying 15k fourwheelers and toys.
ReplyDeleteFarmers are not obligated to help plow drives or roads but they surely can write that off at the end of the year as charitable contributions for fuel time expense wear and tear on the equipment.
To the farmers that are doing it simply to be a part of the community and help thank you.
I wonder if Pretle or Groutt are doing any plowing.
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