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Here's something that would make more sense. Establish "Stupid Farms". Send all the stupid people to the stupid farms, and make the ones who are not stupid work for a living, in forced labor camps if necessary. Isn't what the conservative agenda is really all about?
Here's something that would make more sense. Establish "Stupid Farms". Send all the stupid people to the stupid farms, and make the ones who are not stupid work for a living, in forced labor camps if necessary. Isn't what the conservative agenda is really all about?
Be careful what you wish for. They probably won't have internet access on these Stupid Farms you're talking about.
It seems like an ok idea in theory. People who are down on their luck could live on a poor farm, having food and shelter provided for them. However they were all expected to work the farm insomuch as their bodies would allow them.
Does the theory account for a way to get off the poor farm once you're there? Because it sounds to me like a one-way street.
Here's something that would make more sense. Establish "Stupid Farms". Send all the stupid people to the stupid farms, and make the ones who are not stupid work for a living, in forced labor camps if necessary. Isn't what the conservative agenda is really all about?
Judging by the people living in the neighborhood, I think a Stupid Farm has been formed around me. I've been wondering what happened. This explains it.
Kidding aside, I don't see the poor farm idea working any better than the debtor's prison idea did. There's a reason the practice was abandoned.
All anyone has to do is go buy a farm - and they are for sale.
The problem is actually making a living off the farm.
Right now, NW Iowa farm ground is selling for about $5,000 per acre. That's almost a million dollars for a quarter section of ground.
I recently read an article in Forbes regarding some millionaire in Detroit who's planning to build a huge urban farm, within view of the downtown skyscrapers. Why isn't he building his farm in Iowa? Nice, rich soil right there in dowtown Detroit at $3,000 an acre.
Try some farming in Detroit, screw Iowa land prices!
Well a 'poor farm' as opposed to a homeless/disabled farm are different ideas. Maybe the poor farm would work if there were also opportunities for the poor to gain education and an opportunity to leave the farm. Maybe 4 hours farming 4 hours school 3 days a week, and 2 more days of 8 hours farming. I know hard field work motivated me to get an education.
I recently read an article in Forbes regarding some millionaire in Detroit who's planning to build a huge urban farm, within view of the downtown skyscrapers. Why isn't he building his farm in Iowa? Nice, rich soil right there in dowtown Detroit at $3,000 an acre.
Try some farming in Detroit, screw Iowa land prices!
I'm not sure it was about the same guy, but I read about some guys trying to start organic gardens in Detroit. Apparently there are huge areas of the city where tenement buildings and houses have been torn down, and there are just open lots.
How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen Food Stamps.
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