Maggie's Farm

SORRY--I am not going to feel sorry for Wilmington OH. I am not going to feel sorry for anyone who turned their back on what was done to the family farmer in this nation during both the Regan and Clinton times of greed. The family farm now belongs to NYC residents/and their investors (Spitzer, Madoff). In the meantime the children who were evicted from their homes as their families lost both jobs and housing--well those are those white kids you see marching in millitary bands, those are the white faces you see that have died today in Iraq, and Afghanistan. Yup--they grew up poor in urban areas unable to accept one more "retrained--low skilled worker". When these kids graduated from high school they did what they could--carrying with them the last remnant of feeling something for this country. Naaah I ain't never gonna forget what "free market" Americans did to the family farm. You complain today about the large farms being owned by families--yes they are--some of them. But most are primarily owned by big city investors. Maybe you could get them rich insiders to buy up Wilmington OH and be "generous of spirit".

120,000 family farms per year for more than 10 years. I would say that this economic problem began a long time before last September! This particular "economic phenomena" was clearly co-ordinated, organized if you will. No need going over the arguments that were used to destroy these families, and this system that had served so well since the corrections that were made after the dust bowl. Today, many of the strategies used to conserve water and soil have been abandoned (again) because large corporations are not working as stewards of the land. But, there is something more sinister going on. Twenty five years ago there was a book called "Nine nations of North America". In that book it became clear that the central states west of Chicago were still very independent--still a power to contend with in the political world. But most importantly if you looked clearly you could see that there was no major transportation-neither rail-nor highways, from Mexico to Canada in the middle of the continent. AND, by the way when you go north of that area--way north--you come to the largest untapped source of fresh water in the world. How we gonna get that down to AZ and NV? Wouldn't it be sweet if we didn't have to deal with buy access from all those little independent Americans? Yeah, sure would be a lot easier if we got rid of most of them--so when the time came (and the time is now) we will be (investment groups) in control of the corporations that own the right of way and the land. What was really scary was about 10 years ago when a married couple of college professors from one of the eastern colleges (New York if memory serves me), came out west and announced that the prairie states were going to become the "empty quarter". Sure enough--there are smaller populations in that part of the country today than there was when we first open the ground for farming. Large corporations are destroying the soil with bad practices, but not to worry their owners will reap even greater benefits when we open up that great north/south corridor for rail, highways, water, and wind.