[AT] Amish restraint laws?

[Roger Welsch]

We had a small community of Amish from Ohio twenty or thirty years ago but
in a few years they were made uncomfortable enough that they left.  They
didn't spend enough money in town, they slowed up half wits speeding on the
gravel, but worst of all they took 40-80 acres of the worst ground in the
area and did very well on it, thus making everyone else with expensive
machinery and lazy ways look reeeeeaaaaallllllly bad.  There's nothing more
embarrassing than a really great example.

Ol' Rog


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:03 AM
Subject: [AT] Amish restraint laws?


> Question for any/all folks in areas with large Amish communities.
> Does anyone else have laws forbidding them to do construction or
> remodeling work in their areas/towns.
> One of the local townships (Canajoharie NY) seems to have a BIG problem
> with them. They passed new code laws that Specify that NO Amish
> building/construction or labor may be used in the township because they
> use "Inferior building materials and methods of construction" and
> because they "do not carry insurance for liability" The amazing thing is
> that insurance is NOT required for anyone else either. There are a LOT
> of outfits that do work in the town that don't carry insurance. The
> other item is a real joke. The barns and houses they built before this
> new code were all post and beam construction with fitted tenon and pin
> joints just like the 150+ year old barn I have here. And made out of
> full rough cut lumber just like it has as well. I'm thinking that the
> REAL reason behind it is simply MONEY. The Amish built and entire 9 room
> log home with an attached garage for a person in the town and did it for
> WELL under 30,000 dollars. And they had it built from the ground up in
> less than 2 months. Kind of showed up the local big shot construction
> outfits so I think they started spreading a bunch of lies.
>
> Anyone else have this kind of situation?
>
> Steve Williams
> Near Cooperstown, New York
>
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