The Rural Voice, 2006-07, Page 14The
world's
problems
are
solved
daily
'round
the table
at
Mabel 's.
"Well, I see the politicians have
shut down'Parliament and they've all
gone on vacation," grumbled George
McKenzie the other morning.
"Yeh, we're at our busiest time of
the year and they're getting
holidays," said Cliff Murray.
"I thought we'd already given
them a holiday when we all got so
busy with our summer work that we
couldn't hold any more protests,"
said Dave Winston.
"Yeh, you know they were just
holding out knowing that once we
got busy they could have peace
without spending any money for a
real risk management program," said
George.
"I see they've got money for new
Mabel's Grill
helicopters and supply ships and big
airplanes," said Dave.
"Which is why they can't find
money for us," said Cliff.
"Well if the government can't
afford a risk management program,
maybe we could get this guy Warren
Buffett to give us some help," said
Dave. ` I mean if he can give away
$37 billion, it would be relatively
cheap to help us out."
"I suspect if we really want risk
management we'd be better off if we
all sold our farms and gave the
money to Buffett to invest," said
Dave. "I mean you've got to be a
pretty smart cookie to make —
what's his total worth? — $44
billion?"
"Yeh, you sure don't make that
raising cattle," said George.
"The problem is that if we all
decided to sell the farm and give the
guy our money, who'd buy from us?"
said Cliff. "There are only so many
city people you can convince they
need 100 or 1,000 acres as a weekend
place."
"There's always a catch, isn't
there?" said George;
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"Doesn't it kind of kill you that
this guy, no matter how brilliant he
is, can sock away this kind of money
just for handling paper while we
produce food people can't do without
and we're lucky if we can pay our
bills," said Dave.
"And the politicians and the city
press don't see anything wrong with
that," said Cliff. "They figure if we
can't make it, tough!"
"But where are you supposed to
turn to find the markets?" wondered
George. "I mean everybody told us to
export and there sure hasn't been
much money in that."
"Yeh, and Mom used to tell us to
eat our vegetables. 'There are children
starving in China'," said Dave. "But
now China is exporting food here
cheaper than we can produce it."
"And looking at the people in this
country you can't expect them to eat
much more than they are now
because they're already overweight,"
said Cliff.
"The one thing that might help is
if they legalized marijuana," said
Dave. "Well," he explained he saw
everybody looking at him strangely,
"people get the munchies when they
smoke marijuana, right, so it might
create a new market."
"You ever noticed," said Cliff
when he stopped laughing, "that so
many people who are all in favour of
free trade, don't have to worry about
free trade in how they make their
living? I mean you can't hire a
lawyer from India? You can't hire an
accountant from China."
"Yes, and even if you bring them
overr here they'll end up driving a taxi
cab because the professional
governing bodies won't recognize
them," said George.
"You can't get cheap Third World
politicians to fill the jobs here
either," said Dave.
"Well of course, it would be
difficult because you couldn't
understand what they were saying,"
said George.
"And what would be so different
than now?" wondered Dave.
"What I want is government
bureaucrats to be outsourced to some
Third World country," said Cliff. "I
mean wouldn't you like to see Jim
Wheeler replaced by someone who
was earning two bucks an hour?"0