greatwhitehunter3! wrote:And?
Just another example of how a once great civic-minded people turned into the biggest Jews in modern history.
Back in the day a farmer would be like,
"You know, the snow drifts out there on that road awful bad. Me and my family use that road, my neighbors use that road...I'm going to leave a few rows left standing to make it safer for everyone."Now they're like,
"Pay me motherf--ker...I only cleared $350K last year."Hell, a lot of old time farmers would have gone a step further and put a shelter belt in there to help alleviate the problem. The modern farmer ripped that out long ago.
I think MNDOT should plant shelter belts in the ditches as close as they can to the property line. It makes a lot of sense. It'd be a long term solution, it'd probably be cheaper, it'd provide cover for wildlife, and what happens next year if that same farmer plants soy beans? Snow is going to drift in awful bad. But then the problem would be the farmers bitching...
"Goddamn MNDOT planting trees right next to my property! How the hell am I supposed to plant into the ditch now? I'm going to lose at least three rows due to those dirty bastards and when those trees get taller they're going to block some of the sunlight onto my crop and reduce my yield on an entire acre!"The modern MN farmer: greedier and less civic-minded than a wall street banker.