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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> But, no one is completely immune.  What if a good portion of your access 
> to income went away -- that is happening to people, already.
In this I am lucky. My ex (source of child support) works for Amtrak...it's 
one of Obama and Biden's favorite corporations, and will no doubt receive a 
large chunk of Obama's make-work money. That source of income is safe.

I'm still trying to get the farm producing more income. I'm hoping that the 
economic crisis pushes the country the way I've wanted it to go...less 
globalization, more attention to local goods and services. This country has 
to start making real 'things' again, not just push papers around and depend 
on the rest of the world to provide all our 'real' goods. Some of the 
problems-- higher food prices, less imported food, California farms without 
water...sorry to say, but the worse the rest of the world looks, the better 
my position looks. But as you say, with the government mucking around in the 
economy, who knows what will happen?

Then there is always the natural gas industry...once spring comes, they will 
be putting in a pipeline less than a mile from my farm; the wells are 
already there, capped, waiting for the pipeline. When the price of oil (and 
thus natural gas) goes up again, they will drill more gas wells, and I could 
"hit the gas well lottery" as they say around here. It's the highest 
money-making 'crop' a farm can produce..as in "set for life" kind of money. 
I'm not holding my breath on that one, but it's nice to think about what I'd 
do with an obscene amount of money :-)

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA