I've been to the Boundary Waters canoe area in Minnesota and that is the neatest place. You can canoe all over the place, and go back and forth across the border with no one looking you over. Very pretty country.
As for the Canadians - I think it has more to do with the Canada not being a 3rd world economy than anything else. They're no worse off there than we are in Iowa, so there's no real reason to emigrate.
Then explain why our borders are almost unprotected? We have much more advanced tech monitoring the afg/pak border than we do monitoring the US borders.
Both the Democrat and Republican parties are going after the "illegal alien vote" and are not willing to close off the southern border. Our northern border is with Canada, and (as Southpark says) if we need a scapegoat we can always "Blame Canada"
The other function of the government is to regulate commercial transactions. This is kind of an internet "weights and measures" issue that is actually a good place for the government to poke its nose into.
John Deere does make some big equipment too. I've done some minimal work with their GPS equipment and that is really neat. With the GPS hardware and software, they can monitor their field inputs and outputs, and adjust what they do the following year based upon that data.
I've talked to one farmer who is really into it - down to the point of fertilizing just the rows where the plants are growing as opposed to spreading it over the whole field.
You're thinking of the flex plan. The HSA's let you roll from year to year - you can accumulate money in them. Like I said, I'd look into this before 2005 to see if you can have one - it all depends upon the deductible on your health insurance.
I'm in an area of the country where a family farm rarely exceeds 100 acres and $900,000 in value, and so family farms haven't been swallowed up as quickly by agribusinesses here.
They must have some bitching equipment, buildings, or live near a large city to get farm values of $9k/acre! If farms that small are that valuable - are they animal feed operations or tobacco farms, or are they near a large population center that values the land for development instead of agriculture?
Around here, sustainable farms are much larger (farming entire sections of land or more (that's 640 acres for you city dwellers)). If the land is the only asset of the farm at death, that's easily of $1.25M.
Again 4 long years, plus the government needs to take in some money. Bush has been giving too much of my an my child's future away to his core supporters already (huge defict)
These are a reality now in the form of Health Care Savings Accounts. If you qualify for such an account by having a high-deductible insurance plan (either individually or at work), you can put money into an HSA like you would a flex plan, but anything that you don't spend will stay there for next year (that's the savings part of it). Also, like the flex plan, anything you place into the account is deducted right off of the top of your income so it's tax free.
If you qualify to have one of these, I'd really recommend looking into it for 2005 - there a good deal.
They misread American reaction to what they did. Based upon American responses to terrorism committed against us in the 1990's (both here and abroad), they thought that we would go into a shell and pull out of the middle east based upon teh 9/11 attacks.
I also think that there are few infrastructure components that they could attack with the same far reaching economic effects that the 9/11 attacks had. Perhaps they overdid it and that is where they screwed up?
The 'Stop Loss' program basically takes anyone who the Army deems as needed for the war on terror and bars them from getting out, even if they are legally entitled to do so.
Don't you know that they can do that going in? I remember talking to recruiters while in high school and I remember them talking about that.
In fact, I personally think that an attack on our infrastructure would have been far more effective than 9-11.
9-11 kicked the heck out of a shaky economy and messed things up far longer than they would have without it. What kind of an infrastructure attack could they have done to have the same kind of effect on our economy without killing many people?
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Where were the other 65 then?
I hear ya. I was trying to think of the worst mishap that I've had - and it's nowhere near that (thankfully).
As for the Canadians - I think it has more to do with the Canada not being a 3rd world economy than anything else. They're no worse off there than we are in Iowa, so there's no real reason to emigrate.
It will probably also be better written and won't consume so many resources on the targeted system.
Figure that out and we'll be the next "middle east"
Both the Democrat and Republican parties are going after the "illegal alien vote" and are not willing to close off the southern border. Our northern border is with Canada, and (as Southpark says) if we need a scapegoat we can always "Blame Canada"
The other function of the government is to regulate commercial transactions. This is kind of an internet "weights and measures" issue that is actually a good place for the government to poke its nose into.
Aren't there huge fields of that off of the continental shelf of the east coast?
In all seriousness - I hope that they check ID and confirm that voters should be eligble before registering them at the polls.
Are these the deceased people on the voter rolls?
That's the best way that I've seen this said.
Beyond that, I'm not sure. I've been too busy to go out on a farm visit and see it in action. From what I've seen, it's neat stuff though.
I've talked to one farmer who is really into it - down to the point of fertilizing just the rows where the plants are growing as opposed to spreading it over the whole field.
Steigers' are the wrong color green for out here in the midwest :)
Not breaking a quarter billion dollar piece of equipment make your day?
You're thinking of the flex plan. The HSA's let you roll from year to year - you can accumulate money in them. Like I said, I'd look into this before 2005 to see if you can have one - it all depends upon the deductible on your health insurance.
They must have some bitching equipment, buildings, or live near a large city to get farm values of $9k/acre! If farms that small are that valuable - are they animal feed operations or tobacco farms, or are they near a large population center that values the land for development instead of agriculture?
Around here, sustainable farms are much larger (farming entire sections of land or more (that's 640 acres for you city dwellers)). If the land is the only asset of the farm at death, that's easily of $1.25M.
These are a reality now in the form of Health Care Savings Accounts. If you qualify for such an account by having a high-deductible insurance plan (either individually or at work), you can put money into an HSA like you would a flex plan, but anything that you don't spend will stay there for next year (that's the savings part of it). Also, like the flex plan, anything you place into the account is deducted right off of the top of your income so it's tax free.
If you qualify to have one of these, I'd really recommend looking into it for 2005 - there a good deal.
I also think that there are few infrastructure components that they could attack with the same far reaching economic effects that the 9/11 attacks had. Perhaps they overdid it and that is where they screwed up?
Now Lemmiwinks is out of a job!
Don't you know that they can do that going in? I remember talking to recruiters while in high school and I remember them talking about that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3722255.stm
When the French and Germans say it is!
9-11 kicked the heck out of a shaky economy and messed things up far longer than they would have without it. What kind of an infrastructure attack could they have done to have the same kind of effect on our economy without killing many people?
And if they do, do you think that they'll take out the communications system that will tell the world what they did?