Wpg rally

[highwayman]

mustard, this government is listening to the exact group they should be. The group that put them in office, people that support freedom for farmers. Its just not your group.

[redbaron]

Good thing the 8 amigos (cwb directors) have the pool
to pay for their law suit. If the rally is any indication.
They certainly would never collect enough from their
supporters.

[Burbert]

Lets see, its Fall, Winter is pending.
Harvest nearly all complete, framers a wee
bit tired, still lots ta do, checking bins
etc., signing contracts, markeetering etc.
Travel to Winnipeg, always a good choice
fer a holiday. Yup, me too wondering why
more didn't show up. Butt wait, didn't we
just have a pleb and voted to retain the
cwb! F@#k a holiday in Winnipeg.......

[FarmRanger]

If I thought that the government was actually going to cost me and other farmers $500 million, I would have been there.

As it is, the phoney plebiscite that diluted my vote with no-skin-in-the-game-non-farmers, is rightly being ignored. Real farmers are tired of their property rights being trampled (in western Canada anyway), so we're not going to show up at pro-tyrany rallies funded with our stolen pool monies.

[mustardman]

No Farmranger You would NOT have Been there. Your side has a hard time organizing a two car parade.

Let's face our generation has Never Fought for anything.
Everything our fathers and grandfathers fought to build is being torn down and our generation simply tries to rationalize it.

[craig]

Mustardman
My father and grandfather never fought for the right to dictate to their neighbors how they should run their farms. They fought for the right to work with others who shared the same goals and vision. They also fought for the right to run their farms to the best of their ability. They also recognized that what was right for their farm was not necessarily right for everyone. Once the next generation had proved themselves they were willing to allow them to make the appropriate decisions recognizing that we have moved pass the plow and the threshing machine.

[charliep]

By our generation, who are you refering to?

If baby boomers, you are right. We (I am there) have been the most priveleged world inhabitants in the history of this planet.

My first house was $45,000 - about 150 % of my salary although interest 15 % (just avoided the 20 %).

A 30 year today is likely paying $300,000 or more for a house - likely 4 to 6 times the salary. Interest rates low but at risk of increasing (can't go lower).

Not farm examples I know. Making a farm example and comparing where you started from in your business to today, could you have started your farming career in the current world?

To the rally, how many new commercial farmers were there? Does the current system make it easier or harder for a new farmer to grow their business?

[Fransisco]

Iron curtains, Berlin Wall's and Designated Areas, deserve to be torn down. IMHO

[Fransisco]

Mustard said, "Your side has a hard time organizing a two car parade."

Yet somehow we got our guy elected Prime Minister. LOL

[checking]

What, not even a Jets game for rallying day?

No Board imagination! They should have provided the team with congealed strawberry packs to be used as practice pucks, instead of yearly recycling them at their Brandon show breakfast. Inscribed each one with "Save our CWB" and have encouraged the players to shoot them over the boards into the fan seats for publicity purposes.

Jets wouldn't do it, you say. Well, toss them from the seats onto the ice, and hope the players know what to do with them.

Rallies are so old school that always risk that supporters will not show up. Tends to go off message when days later the organizers are still explaining why no one showed.

[buzz]

Should have called it OCCUPY CWB and more people with nothing else to do would have showed.

[Braveheart]

Mustardman, you said, "Everything our fathers and grandfathers have fought for is being torn down". My grandfather fought the Germans at Vimy Ridge in the Great War. He fought for freedom.

It was fighting Germans again in ww2 that caused the creation of the CWB. I'd say we're tearing down more of the legacy of tyranny. We're taking back freedom.

Don't try to bring ancestors or veterans into this discussion in the way that you are. It's disgraceful.