Falconist Party

[Torie]

In a long list of items that range from pablum, to nutter, to unwise, to cruel, to impracticable to truly frightening, number 22 regarding revamping education has some potential.

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As to number 12, does that mean I get some more government money for the "family" farm? Putting aside the ethanol subsidies, which just convert into higher cash rent, I am getting about 10K or so now in cash government subsidies, just for owning the good earth, and putting unprofitable land into land banks and conservation programs, in exchange for cash payments per year per acre, and have managed in my short tenure as its master, to burn up about 50 hours of government workers' time to boot. I now have them busy designing grass filter strips to staunch erosion from an all too greedy river adjacent to the cropland, and tiling system, at their expense, not mine, as well as having their team of biologists review a "wetlands" determination on a 2.2 acre tract that I don't like, and think failed to hew to the proper protocols, which may then go to mediation, which the government will pay for as well, as we speak. Oh, and I have the army corp of engineers all fired up over a dike project per my latest brainstorm. With any "luck," I should be up to about 100 hours of their time by the end of the year. What kind of increase does your party have in mind?

Sometimes by the way, what makes for a "good" community, is just letting folks do their own thing, while staying off your lawn.  

[Torie]

Our website is no longer a tripod site. That was our first site. The official one is more advanced and not serviced by tripod.

Also, as far as our farm policy goes, our plan is for the government to purchase surplus agricultural goods and store them for future use or donate them to food banks. Our plan also calls for the limiting of development within the corporate limits of cities and towns, preserving most farmland and forests.

Oh, pushing up crop prices some more. I like it!  Pity that will F the poorest of the poor on this planet, as the world wide price of grains goes up some more beyond that which the ethanol heist has effected, but hey, the poor are there, and we're here.

If you limit development within cities and towns, doesn't that mean more development without, chewing up land and more urban sprawl? I thought the game these days was to infill within cities and towns. Anyway, I don't want the town limits just 500 feet or so north of the farm to suck me in. That means a doubling of property taxes, and that I can't subdivide without paved streets and sewers and stuff. The poor slob owning a tract just to the north, can't do squat because of that, because he is in the city limits. All he can do is grow soybeans and watch the deer in the forest preserve next door (which we gave to the city, haha) eat it up. We or course have our adjacent land in a conservation program for more cash payments then we could get in rent. But he failed to navigate the traps to do that. You know, what you really need these days to "properly" manage a farm these days is a good lawyer!  Yes, you do.

[Torie]

With the rise in food prices, perhaps what we need to do is ramp up food production. We could shift agricultural production from tobacco to foodstuffs. We could train more farmers. We could send farmers overseas to train people around the world in modern farm methods.

How do we ramp up food production?  The answer of course is with more government checks to make profitable farming marginal land. I've got about 40 acres in mind myself, where cattle run at the moment.





All I need is more government $$$$$, and it's a done deal.

But hey, I'm glad you have an open mind. I mean, your having done a 180 on one plank, we have only about 40 more to go, and we'll be there.

[Torie]

And yes, we plan for a swiss-style milita system to support the standing military.

You know the military is high tech these days, requiring fewer folks but with higher skill sets don't you?

[Torie]

The Swiss thing is more about a men's camping trip periodically, and a big waste of time and money. They trek over the hills and dales, stop at a pub for a beer when not being watched, and have a grand old time. Officers get routed into banking jobs as their reward. Yes, I read a long article about it all by that most wonderful writer, John McPhee. Interestingly, the German speakers enjoy playing the game considerably more than the French speakers do. Maybe the French are more well rounded and have other hobbies. Maybe they are more oriented to indoor sports rather than outdoor ones.

[Torie]

And for the Israeli system? I think an Israeli mechanized division can give an American mechanized division for a run for its money.

Israel needs to rapidly expand its army given the hood its in, when trouble breaks out, and in a hurry. The place is too small to have that many folks in the military full time, and still be economically viable. The US is not in that position. One size does not fit all.

You do know that the US is broke right?  The US just does not have the economic muscle anymore to effect a muscular Pax Americana for the globe - nor the will, even if that were wise, and heck, the US was not even able to "pacify" Afghanistan after a 10 year run. How do you think we would do trying to pacify Pakistan for example?

[Torie]

Oh Falcon, like the bird, not Falco, the German pop singer from the 1980s.

What is your position on legalization of prostitution?

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Given the above attitudes, and in particular the shorn the porn stance, I think you get to your answer a fortiori opebo. Their leitmotif seems closer to the Women's Christian Temperance Union.