Old Farmers Sour G****s

[Burbert]

Have you ever spoken to an old farmer,
who was happy wit life, or said he liked
farming? Most despise grain companies,
railroads, neighbours and everyone in
the business. They were cheated and
used by everyone including the cwb, who
still owe them a nickle from the 1938
wheat harvest. The grin and smile at
the new generation, wit their monster
machines, rippin the earth and pouring
the chemicals to her. Sustainable, er
not the future will be interesting.
After all, who really cares, time to
cash in anyway, pensions, rrsps, and
high land prices. What more could one
want. Oh sure we'll miss the ole stump
ranch, butt really, who cares?????

[Prairiefire]

Not me .....born to farm . You must be talking about yourself.

[dave4441]

You have a screwed up socialist attitude. Basically, you want a family on each quarter when the reality is the industry has changed,like every industry changes over time. Get in front of it or get run over. Or do your thing and be happy. The desire to be able to control the size of someone else's operation and restrict innovation and efficiency is beyond me. I will put my sustainability up against yours anyday Burbert.

Those that continually are concerned about being cheated are normally the ones that are doing the cheating.

[Hopperbin]

My advice when you sell out, self direct that rsp, a mutual fund will eat you alive.

[Hopperbin]

May as well join my club and hate mutual funds. :-)) ps Oh you forgot to mention accountants.

[farmaholic]

Hopperbin: Where do you sign up for your Mutual Fu** hate club. There better not be any membership fees since we already paid the price just owning them over the last 20 years!!!

[Hopperbin]

Well my dad put 150 dollars per year into a mutual fund for one of the grand kids accounts. 18 years later supposed to be 150 times 18 equals 2700 and there is a total of 3600. What the ****?

[farmaholic]

Hopperbin: Not a bad calculated annual compound rate of return (I realize MF's don't work that way). More than I can say for my portfolio.

[farmaholic]

Hopper...Oops, used the wrong interest calculator.... results not so good. More in line with my performance.

[Hopperbin]

Not a bad anual compound rate of return??? ummm what planet are we on?

[Hopperbin]

lol, I take back my last response, lol

[farmaholic]

Seemed to work out to about 2.75%. Too many skimming cream in the mutual fund industry not enough left for the guy with real skin in the game. I personally hate them but lack knowledge and time to self direct properly(excuse?).
Should invest all in my own business(Farm) could have multiplied it over and over several times. I am putting on my tinfoil hat when I say this...Too bad this scam is allowed to continue draining the savings of the working class people. I don't believe money just evaporates.....