[Vision2020] Palouse Farming: was Hemp...

[Garrett Clevenger]

Donovan writes:

"I would suggest you keep farming, but also employ the manager, the builder, the merchant, the cashier, the salesman, the banker, the clerk, the stacker, the cook, the waitress, and the advertiser by having a mall to sell the food you grow and other items the community needs."


Of course, I hope everybody is employed, hopefully doing something they like. I also don't expect everybody to be a farmer. The problem is, at least the way the economy has been run, as we now see, it apparently requires a HUGE infusion of tax-dollars to keep it rolling.

I'm not an economist, and when I think about how it all works (or seemingly doesn't work) I get dizzy (and that's without any drugs!). However, it doesn't make sense to let our country primarily become a service economy, outsourcing manufacturing overseas in the process. It seems that is unsustainable, and at some point, there isn't going to be enough cash to go around, unless we borrow it and make our grandkids pay it back.

I realize you want your $1 2-litter bottle of Mountain Dew, but do really think continuing to subsidize that kind of lifestyle is healthy in the long term? How many malls, that essentially require people living on credit, and cheap foreign goods, do we need?

As I see it, there are limited resources to go around. It only makes sense to use those resources wisely to ensure we aren't passing the costs on to future generations.

gclev