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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm pretty sure this is bullshit
But the government does pay people to not raise crops. So there's that
I'm posting this as a way to give those who can see the humor in it a good ole belly laugh, may be or not on the belly laugh
My friends, Wayne and Janelle over at Wichita Falls, received a check the other day for $1,000 from the government for not raising hogs. So I want to go into the not raising hogs business.
I need to know your opinion on what the best breed of hogs not to raise? I want to be sure that I approach this venture in keeping with all government guidelines. I would prefer not to raise Razorbacks, but if that is not a good breed to not raise, then I can just as easily not raise Yorkshires or Durocs.
As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be keeping an accurate inventory of how many hogs I am not raising. My friend Wayne is excited about the future of this business. He has been raising hogs for 20 years and the most he ever made was $422 in 1988, until this year when he got your check for $1000 for not raising hogs.
If I get $1,000 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2,000 for not raising 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 which will give me $80,000 income the first year. Then I can afford an airplane.
Another thing, these hogs Im not raising will eat 100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for not raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not raising wheat and corn not to feed the 4,000 hogs I am not going to raise?
I want to get started not feeding as soon as possible as this seems to be a good time a year to not to raise hogs and grain. Im also considering the not-milking-cows business so please send me any information you might have on that.
I assume that the government will consider me to be unemployed from all this non-production, so I plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.
Jimmy Henry
Henry Farms
Broken Arrow, OK
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I want to get into the not raising hogs business.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)hyper nationalist, and conservative int he most hateful and vile sense of the word. The other places I saw it mentioned are not much better.
It is supposed to illustrate how the poor will refuse to work and, instead, "suck the hind tit" of the government because the poor are lazy an can be controlled with money.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)But farmers ARE paid not to plant various crops. And you know what? Most of them are rabidly conservative Republicans who think people on Welfare are lazy scum. While they collect thousands of dollars for not doing something.