[AT] Off Topic not intended to be political

[charlie hill]

Ralph,  It's 11:35 AM here.  It's 88 degrees with 77% humidity and
a heat index of 100 degs (feels like 100).   Predicted high today is 94.
For the upcoming week.
Monday  95
Tue          95
Wed.       97
Thurs       95
Fri             98
Sat             98
Lowest low during that period is 74.

Yeah it was the same with the tobacco allotments.  They allowed
a lot of farmers to farm tobacco and survive but none but the
ones who started with the most land and allotment could thrive.
I'm glad they are gone.   The thing that really burns me is that in
most of the states (I'll use Virginia as an example) when the allotments
were bought out (by the tobacco companies, not the government by the way)
the farmers and land owners were issued a check for their pro-rata portion 
of
the payout.  But NO, not good old NC.  The people in charge here when that
happened took half of the money and put it in a political slush fund they 
call
the "Brightleaf Foundation" and paid the other half out to the farmers in 10
yearly installments with no interest.  It only cost my family (mom, sister 
and I)
about 30,000 bucks.  It cost one of my friends nearly 1 million.  So now, 
every
time I hear that the brightleaf foundation has done some wonderful thing for
some liberal cause (only liberal causes seem to get funded)
I get blazing mad because they are spending MY MONEY!

Charlie




-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 11:37 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic not intended to be political

On 7/22/2016 9:11 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Thanks Ralph,
>
> Marketing is always tricky but generally speaking we are all better
> off without the government in our businesses.
>
> 82?  Ralph some nights it doesn't get down to 82 here.  It's been in the
> mid to high 90's every day for close to a month now!  Heat index most days
> at or above 100.
>
> Charlie
If we had that kind of heat for long I don't think I'd ever get much
done outside the house.
On the govt. marketing boards, I guess it varies but we had it pretty
good back in the sixties
and seventies with the dairy quota system. Government paid a subsidy on
all we produced
up to a point. Each had a quota and when you retired that quota could be
sold to another
producer for pretty good money. Those cream cheques bought a lot of
groceries for the family
back then. I wouldn't want the job now but back then we didn't know any
better.

Ralph in Sask.
>

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