Reply #48: Thanks for the welcome and the info.

[blonndee]

I reread my post, and maybe the "selfish" comment doesn't really describe the members of my family who have suffered. I think "ignorant" would be a better term, and I mean that in the kindest way possible, although I can't abide them and their fundamentalism.

It's really strange..they've had to sell their farm and ranch land and yet they somehow DON'T put any responsibility on the govt. They just think that's the way farming is, they love their president, and continue scraping and struggling, eating beans and cornbread, glad they don't have to answer the phone calls from the bank anymore.

(By the way, growing up, I was a poor kid who ATE those beans and cornbread because we couldn't afford to buy any more groceries when we were farming.)

They classify people like my grandmother (different side of the family) who put some of their land in CRP as "welfare recipients," who, of course, they consider lazy and taking charity. These people would NEVER have thought of "organizing" anything. They consider such things to be liberal, evil, harmful union tactics. Not that they actually KNOW anything about this. Like I said, "What's Wrong With Kansas?"