[AT] Off Topic not intended to be political

[Al Jones]

Even better was the way they cut the allotments to just about nothing
before they bought them out!

Al

PS It's not all liberal causes that get the money.  A lot of FFA
programs have received grants from Golden Leaf.  But I agree the
allotment holders should have gotten it all--allotments were assets
not some abstract thing floating around out there.....

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:47 AM, charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 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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