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For some reason, I can't get the audio to play on that clip; had to enable the captions to find out what was going on.
But apparently the captions function isn't working either. Its interpretation was something about talking to cows? Must be time for a new laptop, mine's obviously done for...
Hello; I do know what one call means after living next to a pasture for over ten years. First time I heard the loud call I thought one of the cows was injured. I called the owner. He said there was not a problem. Such happens a few times most years. The more recent cattle owner who rents the pasture finally told me. It is the call of a mother cow who's calf is missing.
The cattle are grass fed beef cattle and there is a profit driven formula for when they go to market. I know now what to look for. The young steers go away more often as soon as they get to a desired weight. Makes sense economically since once the calf stops putting on weight at a good rate the feed is going to mostly maintain the weight.
I think the cows can last longer depending on if the owner is trying to expand the herd numbers or reduce them.
Another reason to get rid of the young steers is only one bull is needed for a specific job and to avoid conflict as the young steers mature.
One summer I found a young calf alone at the fence next to my place. I called the owner. He told me not to worry. That the mother parked it there and she must trust me well enough.
One other thing I was told. Seems the cattle owners can have more than one pasture in use. I was told if they move the cow & calf to a different pasture right before taking away the near grown calf that the cow is not in distress as long.
These deadly-appearing toadstools have begun invading my back yard.
I think the gardener brings them from other yards.
I think the gardener brings them from other yards.
Hello; Seems New York City could be in for some interesting few years. I do not mean this comment to be about the newly elected mayor. More about a phenomenon which has been on the way for some time. Not a new concept to be sure. I have made comments on this before.
Over time the percentage of the population which goes to work and makes enough to actually pay net taxes has shrunk. The population which does not work or has a low wage job has grown.
For some time, I suspected the percentage of people who get by on other folks tax dollars has been equal to or greater than those who actually net pay. By net pay I mean those who only pay out taxes and do not get subsidized. I have known a few who technically file tax forms each year but wind up getting back more than they pay in. Went to public school with a fellow whose grandparents took care of him financially all his life. They set him up when they passed with a nice paid for house and a large bank account. He did odd jobs around his neighborhood and turned in for tax purposes only what was paid by a check. He would brag to me every year about how the government sent him back a check far above the modest amount of tax he paid in. This is one example of someone not paying net taxes. Perhaps there is a better term than net tax.
I get that young children, the disabled and the elderly do not generally pay taxes. This leaves able bodied adults to be taxpayers. I was a public-school teacher who never made more than $42K as salary for a school year. The average was in the mid $30K. My pay for the first year in 1970 was $4,500. I did take second, third and sometimes fourth jobs to make ends meet. I made it thru my adult life without taxpayer funded handouts.
I do have a modest pension from the state of KY. Taxpayer funded to be sure, but I leave it up to readers to decide if my pension is a handout or rather something I earned. At 65 I started getting SS benefits from those extra odd jobs done while teaching. My earned SS benefit was reduced greatly for around 12 years, from 65 years of age to 77 years of age. I drew around $200/month those 12 years. Starting last spring, I began to get the amount actually earned of around $700/month.
I do not know how it will work out this tax year after the no tax on SS benefits is rumored to be the rule. But I have been paying federal tax on my SS for the last 12 years. I think the no tax on SS is on a scale and is not absolute. I will know in a couple of months or so. Point of this long dialogue is to make the claim I have paid net taxes my entire life.
Back to the gist of this post. As a person born in 1947, I knew life before the welfare state was created. As a public-school teacher, I came to know entire families for whom government checks became a lifestyle.
Now in NYC it appears enough folks voted for "free stuff" in large enough numbers to make it happen. It will be interesting to see what happens. Will the net taxpayers who can move leave with their good paying jobs and take the tax base away? Will the "free stuff" actually happen?
I am pleased to live in TN. I already have met plenty of folks from NYC, California and such places. Glad i bought my house nearly 17 years ago as the new residents have driven housing way up. My area is Appalachia not far from my KY hometown and only 50 miles away from where I spent my adult life as a public-school teacher. We already had plenty of folks on a check lifestyle. Largely they did not bother to vote. I do suspect there could be enough numbers to vote in nationally for more "fee stuff". In case anyone has not cabbaged onto it, yet I do not think there is any "free stuff". Some of us actually have to pay for it.
Over time the percentage of the population which goes to work and makes enough to actually pay net taxes has shrunk. The population which does not work or has a low wage job has grown.
For some time, I suspected the percentage of people who get by on other folks tax dollars has been equal to or greater than those who actually net pay. By net pay I mean those who only pay out taxes and do not get subsidized. I have known a few who technically file tax forms each year but wind up getting back more than they pay in. Went to public school with a fellow whose grandparents took care of him financially all his life. They set him up when they passed with a nice paid for house and a large bank account. He did odd jobs around his neighborhood and turned in for tax purposes only what was paid by a check. He would brag to me every year about how the government sent him back a check far above the modest amount of tax he paid in. This is one example of someone not paying net taxes. Perhaps there is a better term than net tax.
I get that young children, the disabled and the elderly do not generally pay taxes. This leaves able bodied adults to be taxpayers. I was a public-school teacher who never made more than $42K as salary for a school year. The average was in the mid $30K. My pay for the first year in 1970 was $4,500. I did take second, third and sometimes fourth jobs to make ends meet. I made it thru my adult life without taxpayer funded handouts.
I do have a modest pension from the state of KY. Taxpayer funded to be sure, but I leave it up to readers to decide if my pension is a handout or rather something I earned. At 65 I started getting SS benefits from those extra odd jobs done while teaching. My earned SS benefit was reduced greatly for around 12 years, from 65 years of age to 77 years of age. I drew around $200/month those 12 years. Starting last spring, I began to get the amount actually earned of around $700/month.
I do not know how it will work out this tax year after the no tax on SS benefits is rumored to be the rule. But I have been paying federal tax on my SS for the last 12 years. I think the no tax on SS is on a scale and is not absolute. I will know in a couple of months or so. Point of this long dialogue is to make the claim I have paid net taxes my entire life.
Back to the gist of this post. As a person born in 1947, I knew life before the welfare state was created. As a public-school teacher, I came to know entire families for whom government checks became a lifestyle.
Now in NYC it appears enough folks voted for "free stuff" in large enough numbers to make it happen. It will be interesting to see what happens. Will the net taxpayers who can move leave with their good paying jobs and take the tax base away? Will the "free stuff" actually happen?
I am pleased to live in TN. I already have met plenty of folks from NYC, California and such places. Glad i bought my house nearly 17 years ago as the new residents have driven housing way up. My area is Appalachia not far from my KY hometown and only 50 miles away from where I spent my adult life as a public-school teacher. We already had plenty of folks on a check lifestyle. Largely they did not bother to vote. I do suspect there could be enough numbers to vote in nationally for more "fee stuff". In case anyone has not cabbaged onto it, yet I do not think there is any "free stuff". Some of us actually have to pay for it.
