Richard Baker wrote:I don't hate anybody, it’s a waste of energy, but I dislike delusion, deference and denial. This is the second time you have made my comment/opinions personal. As the Editor of the Lakewood Observer you have greater responsibility that goes beyond the allowance of posting conflicting information to your personal political views. The most difficulty accountability that any editor has after opening any dialog for discussion is staying natural. If you don't remain natural, then you have become trapped in your own political one-sided views. I don’t object to opposing views, but when it becomes personal and degrading, I have issues.
Off the subject, Jim, I was raised on a farm and realize that success is not dependent on opinions but hard work and prayer for rain. Why am I conservative? It was when my dad expressed his opinion loudly when Eisenhower announced over the radio that the federal government would be subsidizing farmers not to grow crops because they were less efficient or lazy and they would lose their farms. My dad stated then that this was the end of the small family farmer. Eisenhower may have had all good intentions and influenced by the stupidity of his socialist advisers created the perfect foundation for today's corporate farming that represents 98 percent of all the farming in America. Investors in NYC, Chicago or anywhere would buy stock and like the middle man commodity predators that stalk the hard-working people of the world, would buy all the struggling small farms that banks had over-lent their loans to the farming families. Why there was not a lot more banks executives being buried is a contribute to the character of the families that tilled that land and lost it all to the greed of bankers that convinced them to purchase new equipment and expansion.
Farming corporations abuse the land and environment by over fertilization, unnecessary herbicides and insecticide because they can charge what they want for their crop because the control the tillable land. Less and less land it being tilled for crops but population is going up. You have a concern about he tariffs= wars, t will affect farming corporations. They don't care about the environment, Jim; they have tax write offs and revenue is based on what they don’t grow because it’s all about profit and socialism.
Richard
1) I am not the editor of the Lakewood Observer, merely the asst. publisher.
2) The Deck is a discussion board that contains discussions, some personal, some factual, some hypothetical, some just people sharing knowledge or what they heard. It was actually developed to help find stories, and flush out the facts. Back in the days of the WestEnd Strip Mall project, we found out that City Hall was lying and hiding the facts. As were their supporters and sycophants, many are the same involved in the One Lakewood Multi-Use Strip Mall. The best way to sort through it all was in discussions. One person brings this fact, another brings something else, and over the course of weeks the truth or the lies emerge as such. In a community where secrecy is served daily by elected officials it is still the best way to sort through facts.
Perfect example, the Hospital Debacle over the past 5 years. No one covered it better, deeper or more accurately then the Lakewood Observer's Deck.
Thank you for the farm story.
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