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knabe

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there is a number you can call supposedly for help getting delisted.

i left it at home. 

http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2007/01_18_2007.asp

i don't see the phone number for help i have on the card posted on my bulletin board, but you should be able to get directed to the appropriate number by trying some in the contact list.  be sure to call your representative and get their number by simply typing their name in a search engine and tell them what you think as well.  but since this is a democracy rather than a republic, we shouldn't do this as the majority knows what is best.
 

showsteerdlux

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Interesting web page. I noticed something about a farm is " anywhere where $1,000 worth of ag products resided or normally resides". Pretty interesting definition.
 

KDSC

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I saw it.....I took a picture of it ;D

kansasbeefexpo002.jpg
 

kimbaljd

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:mad: That is my current mood after just filling out this census B.S. ! That was a complete waste of time.
 

Jill

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Ok, I finally got around to filling mine out today. 
Why do they need to know the value of my property or machinery, what does that have to do with estimating crop and animal numbers?  I didn't fill those questions out and put on there that it is none of their business, does this type of thing disgust anyone else?
 

Doc

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  I'm glad this post came back up , I had forgotten about it. I got started & haven't finished it yet. Thanks , Jill( I think) ;)
 

Show Dad

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Of course they need values. If too many farmers or ranchers have too much stuff worth too much (determined by some unnamed D.C. bureaucrat), then what's the need for programs to help (enslave) farmers or ranchers?

But in the end you are right.
 

knabe

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has ANYONE called their representative from the house of representatives where this census originated?

I have.
 

knabe

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thank you for responding to this important issue.

the thing is you have to call them over and over and over and over and over.  my rep is Sam Farr, a devout socialist.  he sends automated responses.

i pretty much view any call to representatives as displacing a call for more socialism.

here's a letter to the editor i wrote the other day that was printed in the paper.

Gavilan campus site an offensive tax grab

Board trustee and former Judge Tom Breen's comments regarding the proposed campus site (It's no longer proposed; it's a done deal. The vote is only a formality and so is the EIR.) offend me. His choice of one word, a bodily function, and his assumption that it is not necessary to offend are sufficient for no harm to take place are disturbing, particularly since he is a former judge and should know that lack of intent doesn't free one from responsibility of harm.

The campus site sits on five-acre zoning. The remaining dividend homes property will probably be converted to a higher density, allowing Mr. Oliver and his party to "make" more profit from the development lost to the campus. This will create a leapfrog development of surrounding areas.

Homeowners who purchased their homes with the knowledge of this parcel being for five-acre development are harmed by this transaction. We have lost our privacy, peace and quiet and other values we purchased when the land was in five-acre zoning. We will not be compensated for this. In fact, probably the only way we can be compensated is for us to have our zoning changed to a higher density so we can again purchase land that offers privacy and freedom from proximity to a college campus. We have lost the time and investment we have put into our properties. I noticed not one of the board of trustees located the campus next to their property where they live. The campus will eventually be annexed to the city, and five-acre parcels will become islands within city limits, essentially folding them into the city proper.

This is a tax revenue grab, as the only way the state government can balance its books is to mandate growth to generate revenue, even though the net population of the state is losing legal residents, and only grows through illegal immigration. This is because residents realize they have no representation in government anymore and are voting with their feet and retirement dollars and are fed up with financing bankruptcy.

The trustees say they need to campus to stay ahead of growth, mandated by the state. I see something very wrong with this picture.

I would like to see very concrete plans to mitigate campus impact on my investment with specific mitigations to traffic, parking, parking location away from our development, no night time games on campus fields similar to existing standards at Gavilan, a fee based system for athletic field use, open space for the EXISTING tiger salamander pond recently heavily disced, as well as brush planted on the open space for transient kit fox population and a dead end for Harbern Way with the existing easement removed as well as other items. The sustainable agriculture program should probably be limited to a focus on backyard gardening as farming in the area will no longer be a viable option when the campus is completed as the entire valley floor will be houses to finance the next wave of mandated growth.


 

shorthorns r us

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Electronic due date extended until 2/8!  A procrastinators dream!  (clapping)

Hey Knabe, we must need to pay more tax so that the gov't can expand its infrastructure to handle all the online filers.  ;D
 
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