@obediah said:
@Isuwen said:
Here in America we believe in a little something called 'self reliance'.Yep, you can ask any good ole boy farmer and they'll tell you all about how they got to where they are through hard work and everyone else should do the same. You can call them up on their subsidized phone, or drive to visit them on subsidized roads and drink some of their nice subsidized water.
Oh, you paved all your own roads, and purify all your own water, plus you provide food to the sad wage-slaves in their cubicles across the nation? Wait, no, you don't. All you have is a stupid straw-man statement that doesn't even make an ounce of sense. My parents in a rural community pay twice what I do for both water and electricity.
Farming is dirty and dangerous work, unlikely to lead to extreme wealth unless you're the head of Con-Agra. The farmer, his wife, and their kids aren't going to have health insurance because it's crazy-expensive, and the farmer's going to end up on a tractor until he's 87. [The gay farmer can retire at 86, plus his tractor has doilies on it.]