Question of the Day and its not Politics.

[Grahamp]

Freewheat makes an interesting point about the public's perception of farmers. (Being wealthy/elite) I am not that old (36) and when I was a kid being a farmers son definitely did not put me on the top rung of the social ladder in school. The bottom third is where I and I would say most farm kids resided. Now 20-30 years later I would say we are immediately assumed to be rich and have a charmed life with few worries other than which lake we are going to spend our summer at. I wish it was true.

[ajl]

China has a heavily managed economy where speculation is a guaranted way to become wealthy. Their government manipulates the currency so speculators can't lose. Now the rest of the world has gone that way as well with central bank money printing making speculation the only business in town here. They just have more experience living in that world then we do. That is why both China and Canuckistan will be on the scrap heap of failed socialist states one day along with Japan, Greece, Venezuela, South Africa, the rest of Europe and so on.