Quit posting political stuff

[showsteerdlux]

I have a challenge for both Zach and Showsteerdlux:

Find out who your state (by district) house representatives and senators are.  Ask your folks who your Senators and Representives in Washington DC are.

Then, go to their website.  If there is not a statement on agricultural issues near and dear to your home area.....then email them and ask.

Politics are not for wall flowers and by standers!   The world is run by those who show up!!!!!

Find out when your local or state cattle organization meets.  Skip school and go!!   You will be met with a whole slate of POLITICAL problems and possible solutions.

If you are interested in the cattle business, you are fooling yourself if you think that politics don't have a say!  

Around where I live, if we didn't fight for grazing rights, we would be raising black footed ferrits and prairie dogs.    Have fun!

I know who my US Rep is as he lives about 2 miles away from me, also know the State Rep although I don't particularly like some of his ideas. The US Rep. has the largest home in the county, and I'm a firefighter for that district, so not only do I know him but I also protect his district (and home if anything happened) for FD and EMS, so there is a level of respect on both sides. Point being he is from the area. Last year a large committee decided that they would like to close down the local research station as the property is worth a lot for farming houses as we say. Many farmers including my family wrote to every Senator and Representative on the State Level and our U.S. Senators and Reps. for our area informing them of the good that this farm has done and the consequences that would result if they allowed it to be shut down. It worked, for now the Research Station is still open and doing good for the farmers of our area. Although I'm not going to be old enough to vote this year, I have still been involved in informing people about the Commissioner of Agriculture race as the man who is in now has done wonders for NC AGR, and the man who he is up against has many people that we might call not friends of production ag. on his side including peta. I have realized in my few short years that although I'm in a dying profession that politics can either make or break my chosen profession. For that reason i have become very proactive in the past few years trying to educate my local politicians of the importance of ag and why it has become a dying breed that needs help instead of consistently receiving the blunt end of everything. With Cattlemen's Association, the former NCBA president operates about 5 minutes from where I live so I also am involved with local and state cattlemen's associations.

 

[cowz]

Great job!  I do not mean to sound condescending, but I am very impressed at how politically aware you are for your age!  Keep at it! 

Email is a wonderful thing....makes it really easy to write your representatives in just a few minutes!

 

[knabe]

if only cattle worked this way
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVann0.cv9Tw

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, both still on track for profitable years, have set aside about $13 billion for bonuses after three quarters, down 28 percent from a year ago. Even some employees at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which declared the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history last month, will get the same bonus they received a year ago.

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, public outcry over excessive pay and the demise of three of the biggest securities firms won't deter Wall Street from offering year-end rewards to employees on top of their salaries, compensation experts say.

``Critical producers and critical managers will be retained with the same bonus they had last year,'' said Robert Sloan, head of U.S. financial-services recruiting at Egon Zehnder International, a New York-based executive-search firm. ``The others will see sharp cuts.''


sounds like an obama plan, but in the reverse.

 

[farmboy]

so after nov 4th all this political stuff is gonna stop popping up? i dont really care


oh and the donkey has always been popular with the ladies 

One day you will care

i do care who wins
i dont care what you post on this site

 

[aj]

I think anyone who post's politictics should be sent to a labor camp in Siberia. Where will this stuff end? ;D

 

[showsteerdlux]

Well go ahead and send me. Number 1 I highly doubt anyone on here has not ever said anything about it. Heck, living life is political when you think about it.

 

[Steer Boy 101]

I think some ppl need sleep lol.... Well ageed to both sides im young and don't care, i should, but i dont. Know my dad, he wont shut up about it and same with everyonee else. one thing that ticks me off is that no matter who wins gun rights (wiitch has been a big deal i nmy area) anrnt goin any where aint no what in heck there gonna take guns away. anoter is no matter who wins are taxes are goin up because of what cough cough retard is doin right know by not watching where and how he spends money. Agee to both sides agiant that the war in iraq may have some impact on how wee live her with oil BUT if he spent that money researching our ethonol or somting different in the US i belive it would be a better spent money. The turbans over seas aint gonna change, they been like that for ever.

 

[aj]

I think we need to remember that tax rates and tax revenue are two different things.

 

[bcosu]

[/quote]Channel one is watch by kids....who don't even understand what they are talking about. For the most part...that is in no offense to kids who understand why they are voting for a certain candidate. Because there are a lot! But Obama interacts with young people and flows better with them than McCain does. That poll is EXTREAMLY biased. Probably the most biased poll you can take. And I enjoy reading what people like myself think of these candidates. It affects the club calf world too.
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channel one is a joke. we watched it during lunch in high school and it was definitely a one sided report (like all news stations). It really drove me crazy because they gave democratic candidates like obama and hillary so much positive air time and the republican candidates only were talked about if they did something wrong.
If only the world was perfect...

 

[JbarL]

I'm also young- to young to vote this round in fact, and I would like to remind you that politics are also what decide what we in the cattle industry can or cannot do. We as cattlemen have a responsibility to be informed about politics as they are what will decide if and what we can do to try and improve our industry. Whether we like it or not, politics have become a very important part of our industry and we are responsible to set a standard in order to make the place we call home a good place to work and live, and in our case farm. Remember that with high fuel prices, fertilizer out the roof, droughts and other factors that are both environmental and political, we only have a chance every 4 years to decide how we are going to try and either help or hurt ourselves. To me this is a big issue that IS very important and I believe that it should be discussed in all areas including a cattle board. Just remember that things of this nature are discussed at every feed store in the US every day. In many ways this is a large feed store where many different people from all areas can come and discuss everything from the newest trends in the cattle industry to yes politics.
Respectfully,
JD

bravo young man....my brother ( also from w central fl) went to south carolina a year or so ago to look at property ( hurrican hide away ) ...they did all kinds of online searching....contacted about 3 different real state agents, picked out 4/5 pieces of propeerty to look at and took a trip.....got there, and seen all the properties....narrowed it down to 2....came back home for a couple weeks, and then went back...he had alot of questions that the agents didnt explain exactually as clearly as he would have liked, so  i told him when he went back up ....to go to the feed store, and the local breakfast joint ...thats where your going to find out about the "dirt"...and the "rock" and the "water" and the septic costs, and taxes ect.......and sure enough he did....and he said he found out more in 2 hours hangin' aournd the feed store than he did the 2 weeks before returning.....actually went and looked at a place suggested by one of the employees there....he never bought a place there,...but has been back twice for the weekend to fish and "relax"....and always stops by the feed store now...i would have told him to go to the barber shop as well...but hes bald as a cue ball ....good luck young man...even though its going to be 4 more years before the next presidential election, your local/state and county elections are far more important to you as a young man and i'd advise you to be as aware and active in those as well....jbarl

 

[farmboy]

Channel one is watch by kids....who don't even understand what they are talking about. For the most part...that is in no offense to kids who understand why they are voting for a certain candidate. Because there are a lot! But Obama interacts with young people and flows better with them than McCain does. That poll is EXTREAMLY biased. Probably the most biased poll you can take. And I enjoy reading what people like myself think of these candidates. It affects the club calf world too.
[/quote]

channel one is a joke. we watched it during lunch in high school and it was definitely a one sided report (like all news stations). It really drove me crazy because they gave democratic candidates like obama and hillary so much positive air time and the republican candidates only were talked about if they did something wrong.
If only the world was perfect...
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yep exactly, less then a fourth of those votes would be from people 18 years old so forget it.

 

[red]

I guess since one of the neatest thing about this board is that we can discuss anything.
Our next president & leaders will affect your world more than you can imagine

Red

 

[Dusty]

The penalty for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors......

 

[knabe]

The penalty for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors......

do you think it will be patriotic to start a revolution?  che thought it was ok.

 

[showcattlegal]

I am a young person. But I'm old enough to vote. I think the reason kids like obma so much is all he talks about is change. But he also has the rockstar like rallies. they have no idea what life is going to be like for them when they get out into the real world and have a lot of their rights as Americans taken away, but all they want is change.

 

[MYT Farms]

Watching "Spoken Like a True Democrat" about hits the nail right on the head.

 

[cowz]

Stay tuned....my neighbor is selling 2 semiloads of calves on Thursday...wonder what the market will be like....we keep saying....don't do it, dont do it!!!