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Old 03-04-2014, 11:03 PM
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I've seen this sort of thing time and time and time again... it just keeps coming, drip by drip, getting worse and worse, until you drown in it...

Some megacompany wanted a toxic injection well into an old salt dome in the next town over... folks fought them to a standstill in the public hearings. Permit refused. SO, they simply kept reapplying every six months for years on end... eventually folks just "wore out" and got tired of fighting it, and they got their permit...

We cotton farmers fought the TX boll weevil eradication foundation all the way to the TX Supreme Court... basically they FORCED you to pay them $20 per acre on every acre of cotton planted or they could place a lien on your farm if you didn't pay... basically, it was giving an "independent" (quasi-gov't) company working on the gubmints behalf the power to tax-- no exceptions, with the power to levy liens without recompense. The Supreme Court sided with the farmers and judged it unconstitutional. The farmers all patted each other on the back, breathed a huge sigh of relief, and went on as if nothing happened. I figured " give it a year, maybe two, but they'll be back-- they'll figure out a new 'angle' to screw folks, and implement it full-tilt boogey. Sure enough, they came back a year or two later, having "reworked" the program and instituted a plan where you had to pay your assessments and they would issue you a "letter of permission" to sell YOUR crop. Without this letter of permission, you could sell your crop, BUT the seller was required to issue the check payable to YOU AND TBWEF (boll weevil foundation). Then when you went to the bank to deposit it, the bank wouldn't without it being COSIGNED by the TBWEF... so you had to go to their offices where they'd readily agree to sign it-- once you paid the taxes, fees, interest, and penalties... I'm no **** serf and don't intend to be a slave on my own land, so I quit growin cotton...

There's a lot of other times I've seen this sort of stupidity... so it's absolutely NO surprise that the "promises" made by the new for-profit TRF owners isn't worth the hot air and electrons used to disburse them. This whole situation became inevitable the minute the forum was sold to a group of for-profit outsiders. I can promise you something else, too... it will ONLY GET WORSE WITH TIME...

It was nice while it lasted...

Later! OL JR
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