The plight of the family farmer is the same in this generation as it was during the Great Depression.
With a cherry on top.
The additional issue farmers have to face now is inflation.
That is, twenty years ago hay sold for $5.00 a bale.
And hay, today, sells for....$5.00 a bale!
But the cost of diesel twenty years ago was 67 cents a gallon; now it's $2.67 or more.
And twine, which was $17 dollars a box, has now more than doubled.
Get the picture?
Lenin said that the middle class had to be ground between the twin millstones of taxation and inflation, in order to destroy it.
Seems like it doesn't much matter whether the inflation is in Russia or in the United States: inflation is pretty rough on the rapidly-shrinking middle class.
And you'll wonder why I say that big corporations assist in destroying family farms? Well, they're the guys who buy the farms from the banks, after the banks have foreclosed on the farm.
Pretty rotten, yes?
Putting it a different way, if all of the politicians in the United States disappeared overnight, there's a good chance that things would not change for the worse in any material ways.
On the other hand, if all the farmers in the United States vanished overnight, we'd starve.
If Houdini asked for my input before the disappearing act, I know which way I'd like to see it work.
.
With a cherry on top.
The additional issue farmers have to face now is inflation.
That is, twenty years ago hay sold for $5.00 a bale.
And hay, today, sells for....$5.00 a bale!
But the cost of diesel twenty years ago was 67 cents a gallon; now it's $2.67 or more.
And twine, which was $17 dollars a box, has now more than doubled.
Get the picture?
Lenin said that the middle class had to be ground between the twin millstones of taxation and inflation, in order to destroy it.
Seems like it doesn't much matter whether the inflation is in Russia or in the United States: inflation is pretty rough on the rapidly-shrinking middle class.
And you'll wonder why I say that big corporations assist in destroying family farms? Well, they're the guys who buy the farms from the banks, after the banks have foreclosed on the farm.
Pretty rotten, yes?
Putting it a different way, if all of the politicians in the United States disappeared overnight, there's a good chance that things would not change for the worse in any material ways.
On the other hand, if all the farmers in the United States vanished overnight, we'd starve.
If Houdini asked for my input before the disappearing act, I know which way I'd like to see it work.
.
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