Posted on 11/23/2013 5:29:59 AM PST by jonefab
WICHITA, Kan. -
It was a shocking sight--thousands of cattle dead, killed in an October blizzard.
"I told my wife, if that happened up here and that happened to us, we'd be done," Stafford County rancher Jeff Scott says. "It would devastate us."
So Scott got busy and put the word out to other cattle producers. They collected a bunch of cows, that'll go to South Dakota to help replace the herds.
(Excerpt) Read more at kwch.com ...
- Not some FEMA boondoggle and wealth redistribution scheme at the threat of gun.
God bless this rancher for doing something to help his neighbors, using Jesus’s definition of “neighbor” as anyone who needs our help. May he and the other KS ranchers be richly blessed.
A heartwarming note in this noble story is that there is no mention of someone waiting for a government program and no politician preening before the camera, as Chris Christie and Obama did during Sandy.
Quite simply... loving their neighbor. Like Jesus said to do.
You beat me to it. God bless you.
In the spirit of your post, regardless of whether anyone likes Beck or not, this is a good story and it should happen more often:
I hate the phrase “giving back.” Especially here, he earned everything he’s got and the fruit of his labor was the benefit he rendered to his fellow man through the market place. If his father on his death bed said something like ,”Son, I did a lot for you and I know that you always wanted to pay me back, but now you won’t be able to that. Instead, do works of charity.” Then, that would be “giving back.” In this case, he is just being charitable, which is mighty fine of him.
Reminds me of the aftermath of the major flooding in North Dakota within a year of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA and the Red Cross showed up with thousands of trailers to be used as temporary housing for families that got flooded out of their homes. They stood empty for weeks before someone finally figured out that the people of that region were perfectly capable of figuring out alternative housing arrangements for themselves.
You are absolutely right. The 2009 flood in the Fargo-Moorhead and Grand Forks inundated the crop land and drove hundreds of farmers and townsfolk out of their homes for weeks. When it was over, they moved back in and started over. With community help. They had already told FEMA to stay away. I grew up there and i can tell you I was proud of all.
These ranchers/farmers must be conservatives. Surveys have shown many times that conservatives are more generous and charitable than liberals. Liberals think their charitable acts consist of voting for liberals - so they can tax the American producers, and redistribute the wealth.
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