and the farmer always pays for someone else's screw up.
I don't know--- seems like I pay for all my own screw ups, but farmers can get paid quite a bit for not doing their job. If we've got too many cranes around- think I could get uncle sam to send me a check for cranes that I park this year and don't use? (CRP- LDP payments anyone?)
Maybe instead of mandating we put corn alcohol in all our fuel, we should mandate that all construction jobsites have a crane on them, whether its cost effective or not, or what it does to crane rental prices..., heck lets put 3 cranes on every site, and a excavator, a backhoe, dozer, and a forklift, with a man to run each one. Four or five supervisors too. Safety first. It will be good for the planet.
Then again, if I had to put up with all the gov't paperwork for the hand outs, I'd probably do nothing but whine and complain about how bad I have it with low prices, no rain, and high input costs.....
All in good fun to you farmers, honestly, I don't think I'd trade places with any of you. I've actually got it pretty good myself. I don't have to worry about whether the govt is going to bail me out, because I know they're not going to, so I don't loose sleep worrying about it...