“Who are you people who only spend your money on food and energy”
“Save your hyperbole for people a litte more gulible...”
I’m an elderly retired rancher on SS. Trust me, retirees like me can only afford food and energy. My ranch is paid for, but to keep my AG exemption, I buy about eight tons of hay every two months to feed my cattle. We make nothing when we sell them. Hay last year was 260.00 a ton. (the year before that only 70.00 a ton—hows that for inflation?)Prairie fires burned a lot of the land.
Diesel 3.35 a gallon for the tractor. If we didn’t raise our own food, we’d be up salt creek, but it takes almost every dime to feed cattle, chickens, buy feed and fertilizer-—then there’s elctricity, fuel to pump water....yada, yada, yada. Sorry to irritate you, but I wonder if you have any idea how many people in fly over country live. Next time you go into a grocery store to buy food you might think of us.
Oh I will. I'll also think of you every time a farm bill is debated in The house of Representatives and how your social security is indexed to wages and not the CPI. I'll also be thinking of how my kids are going to pay for all of it since the surplus has went to the purchase of account-gimmik assets. Further, I'll be thinking about you as you collect that SS check until the day you are no longer living, assuming that you began collecting it in your mid sixties. Just curious here, but before you started collecting, if someone were to propose a hike in the age necessary to collect those benefits, would you have been on-board with the proposal?
I’m an elderly retired rancher on SS. Trust me, retirees like me can only afford food and energy.
Both of your statements? I'm confused now. Which is it?