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  • From: "Rick Williams" <mrfarm AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Small farms and processing issues
  • Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:25:01 -0500


Clarence Walker
Rainbow's End Farms & Orchards, wrote:

>>>>>>Sorry to have to STRONGLY disagree, but having watched the creeping
socialism of the past become a runaway roller coaster of more government,
more regulation, more taxation, more bureaucracy, more empires, and more
people expecting the government to provide and do more, more on the dole and
MORE, MORE, MORE it appears that there is truly a "monster on the loose" and
it's our heads that are in the noose! The invasiveness so casually
referenced is never "worth it" as inevitably rights of the individual
...rights so dearly won...are forfeited.

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You oppose social security, medicare, other state plans for the medical
insurance for the poor and low income, low income housing, welfare programs,
WIC, etc.?

This doesn't even begin the touch the OSHA safety and health issues and EPA
and other alphabet soup regulations that are tens of thousands of government
rules that affect every business.

>>>>>That conveyed in the initial quote is the same party line currently
being communicated in our public institutions.

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I had said that "We no longer can live our lives as isolated as we once did
since
we do have a mixed economy in much of the world. Part socialist and part
capitalist. The more socialist, the more invasive it becomes. But the trade
off for most people makes it worth it."

It is not party line but only a true observation of fact today. We DO live
in a mixed economy. This mostly began with the New Deal under FDR and has
been expanded through today. And the reason we have it is due to the desires
of the special interests of many groups who have pushed for these changes.

And yes, it is a fact, that for most people it really is worth it to them.

>>>>In once asking a college student his view of the role of government I
was told that it is to provide goods and services to the people. WRONG!!!
The role of government is to govern. The role of the market..the free, open,
unregulated, unrestricted, UNSOCIALIZED market is to provide goods and
services to the people. Do they even teach world history in high schools and
colleges anymore?

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This morning I was listening to WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio) which has many
one hour talk shows on diverse subjects and today the State AFL-CIO
president, Dave Newby (what a wonderful radio voice he has) was discussing a
new plan for medical care for everyone financed primarily through all
employers, including those with only one employee.

And it is interesting how the left couches the words where they will say
"government needs to provide medical coverage for its citizens," just like
you mention above. It is a mind set that is quite common.

Sincerely,

Rick Williams
Misty Ridge Farm
Dairy heifers and dairy beef graziers
Viroqua, WI

www.mistyridgefarm.com












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