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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Wed, 12/31/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:


> 
> Dead wrong. That's a city mindset. To a homesteader,
> one's land is the  
> most important financial investment of their lifetime.
> There is no  
> exit strategy. One lives there until one dies. Heartwood is
> held as a  
> family trust. It will never be sold in our lifetime.
> 
> Our exit strategy is a hose from an exhaust pipe.



*********Then your land would be an 'asset' and a habitat, not an 
"investment".  I am often wrong , but not this time
 


> Bob: Things might be different this time, why does one man
> need more  
> than five acres (or 3 acres or whatever), maximum?
> 
> I suspect we could list a dozen reasons.


*******So could I Gene.  I own hundreds of acres.  I was making a point about 
the invalid notions that can come up in political discussions
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