Posted on 04/07/2024 9:35:00 AM PDT by Salman
Twenty-four years after farm invasions began in Zimbabwe it was time for me to go back to my farm again and have a look.
Surely 24 years later, there would be something to see to support the legend that what happened on commercial farms was productive and beneficial to the people and the country.
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So what did I see when I went back to my farm last week? I did not see a thriving, productive farm. I saw houses, lots of houses, built on the most fertile fields, the lushest pastures and the livestock handling pens.
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For reference, Cathy Buckle's Wikipedia bio.
Well l was expecting much worse
Former colonies have transitioned from productive economies under “outside management” to welfare economies based on foreign aid; most are just failed states, and the boogeyman varies but the result remains the same: outstretched palms. They’ve transitioned from demanding reparations from the former colonizers (who wouldn’t play ball) to demanding reparations from any civilized countries where they don’t pee in their drinking water (blaming “environmental damage”).
On top of that, those that can flee to the countries of the former colonizers - an unwritten admission that they were better off before (despite the brutality of much of colonialism)..
Don’t think Senile and his radical pals won’t try it here.
Already laying the groundwork. The OP isn't just a story of something that happened, it's a warning.
Same thing in small town, USA. The bureaucrats hate the farmers and their farms. Can’t tax the farms like you could all the houses that could be on the same acreage.
The bureaucrats move out of the cities to get away from the crime, the high taxes, the insanity. Then they do their best to turn the little burg they move to into the very dump they left in the first place.
You go to town and drive behind the municipal buildings looking for a parking space. Of course, all the closest spots are reserved for the ‘crats. Row upon row of Lexus, Audi... all with their virtue signaling stickers neatly slapped on.
Once inside, you prepare for the fight to come with the people who sit behind the desks, perpetually angry.
It’s the farmers that upset them. Always complaining about every price hike. It’s the farmers that keep them from their Volvo dream cars.
If the farms were gone, the farmers would be gone. It would be more like the city they came from. More houses mean more taxes. Plenty of money for the bureaucrats. For better cars, better housing. Private schools.
Aaaand if things get crazy, they can always get a job doing the same thing out in a small town.
This has been happening to the farms around us for the last 30 years, now covered with cookie-cutter sub-divisions. I guess we need them. Not for insane marxist reasons, but happening nonetheless.
BUILDING on FERTILE ground is a monumental disaster.
Cannot eat the taxes, either.
They’ve been doing it 8n NY for decades.
NY has been busy driving farms out of existence.
Then they cynically put out radio ads saying that NY is “proud” of their dairy farmers.
Then another wave of anti-farming BS hits.
Years ago Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa. Times have certainly changed.
“Well l was expecting much worse”
Me too. Bidenvilles look worse.
lucky to be alive...
Little boxes made of ticky tacky.
Is she half black?
Agriculture and animal husbandry is racist.
You see the lead-up in the books and articles recently on “rural rage”, “Trump’s support concentrated in small towns and farm areas”. Prof. Paul Krugman of Harvard, the always wrong “economics” teacher, has been running his mouth about this; I would bet this clown has never held a farm implement or tool in his life; he would be incapable of any physical work. Like Lenin, the physical misfits are always the haters who come up with plans to destroy an entire lifestyle.
I have fields all around my 15 acres being tore up for houses, houses and more houses. In the USA.
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