Will Slavery end August 1st, 2012

[rodb]

Slavery was ended across the British Empire in 1833. It was reimplemented in Western Canada during WW 2. Does this mean that the CWB directors and "Friends of the CWB" and the NFU are suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.

I know Wilagro is going to rail against my post but the more I see the people who are not directly effected by this legislation, the more I feel like a slave with no rights to property.

[wilagro]

Yes, it is a whole lot of melodramatic pap. Your concept of "slavery" just doesn't register with most people.

[bucket]

wilagro

You may believe that an open market is being a slave to the grain companies. I believe we are slaves to the cwb.

I also believe anytime you have a choice as to who your masters are, you are no longer a slave. The tables are then turned and the grain companies become your slaves.

In the near future, prices will be coming out and those terrible grain companies will be bidding for your new crop and anything left in your bins. And there will be many companies wanting your business, some you don't even know yet.

[wilagro]

bucket: You are a barrel of laffs.

[bucket]

Thank you.

[bucket]

Seriously wilagro.

If the cwb goes to a voluntary entity, do you believe you will be worse off?

Given that you could follow the same delivery patterns as you currently do, and be fully priced when you drop your wheat durum or barley in the pit, why is waiting for the money better?

Especially when the PROs drop like a rock and you can not price anything against them in February?

[silverback]

willy has no delivery patterns other than pressing "submit" on this forum. What is it 23 years now willy? 24?

[wilagro]

silverback...as I explained in another thread I retired from my "city" job 23 years ago and started farming for a living. I brushed and broke land, picked rocks and roots and I believe I can be called a farmer. I seeded and harvested and marketed and fought the grasshoppers and dodged the hail stones, got chased by an angry coyote intent on inflicting deadly force upon me, got droughted out for three years running and saw what BSE did to my neighbours. I am not actively farming right now as my health problems won't allow it. Sooooo suck it up...I'll still express my opinion.

[silverback]

Great, so you work off farm for almost all of your working life, come back to the farm to retire, and you think you deserve to be able to tell your neighbors who they can sell their grain to? To me that is viscous and evil.

What would you have said, when you were living in the city, if your mayor had told you that since you live in a certain neighborhood you have to buy your groceries from only one certain store and you can't travel to find cheaper bread or milk? If you claim you would have told him to shove it, then you are a hypocrite.

[wilagro]

silverback: You employ "strange" logic...and I don't tell my neighbours where to sell their grain and never have.

[Tom4Wildrose]

Wilagro,

You have the democratic right to express your opinion. The moral authority to tell me and our family how to market our grain... is really the question here. This isn't about how much we are paid for our grain... cause prices will always go up and down... and the CWB is as much a price taker as any other seller on this planet... if not at a disadvantage because grain buyers know the price they pay isn't public. In Canola it generally is because it is traded through the ICE futures and the demand is transparent.

[Burbert]

SLAVES, SLAVES, slaves!! What a stupid
comparison. All right, lets blow this
totally outta proportion and make a
headline, fer Comedian newspapers. Slaves
actually fled to Comedia, apparently to
become slaves of the Comedian Wheat Bored.
Slaves don't own nothin, hence can't
borrow money. Comedian framer slaves, no
such thing........

[Tom4Wildrose]

Burbert;

Yesss Sir Masser,

You have spoken... I will obey! Have a good day Masser... sorry for upsetting you.

[FarmForProfit]

Wilagro.

Occasionally I'm not a smartass so I'm
really curious. Was you city job related
to the grain industry? If so was it the
CWB. And did you retire with a pension so
farming was a hobby vs raising a family on
the income?

[wilagro]

FarmForProfit: I retired from my retailing job with my shirt on my back and some skimpy savings but it was better to farm than live in the f***ing city. People have asked me why and I tell them because I was born on a farm and it is the only way of life that rewards my soul because it sure as hell wasn't for the money. The farm has appreciated six times what I paid for it and there will be enough money to bury me and a bit left over for lunch for the funeral attendees. What else can one ask for?