| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Wesson |
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| Interests: | Hunting, fishing, horses, and cattle |
| Occupation: | Lip Waxer |
| Number of Posts: | 1483 |
| Registered on: | 11/23/2016 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Amazon removes options to sort customer reviews by Most Recent. (Edited)
Posted by Lugnut on 4/28/25 at 6:59 am
It always amazed me that you can leave a review about a seller or product but you can’t leave a review for the Amazon service!?? Why is that?
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re: Have you ever almost died?
Posted by Lugnut on 4/9/25 at 10:07 pm
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Did you experience anything in those 22 seconds?
I absolutely did. Bright light and amazingly peace. Some will say it was the light in the room while waking up and endorphins but I’ll just say I believe
re: Have you ever almost died?
Posted by Lugnut on 4/9/25 at 10:00 pm
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I may have to get this test. May I ask what you were testing for?
I was passing out due to very low heart rate
re: Have you ever almost died?
Posted by Lugnut on 4/9/25 at 7:19 pm
Yes. Tilt table test. Flatlined for 22 seconds.
re: St. Bernard couple's shrimp boat takes them on 5-month, 6,000-mile trip around Great Loop
Posted by Lugnut on 3/24/25 at 2:02 pm
Friend of mine is on his third great loop right now. Every picture he sends me I tell him to F off! Haha. I’m so jealous!
re: Karoline Explains DOGE to the Corporate Media
Posted by Lugnut on 3/17/25 at 7:16 am
LOL. Look, I’m all for what they are doing but don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining!
Then why did all probationary employees that were let go, receive their notification from DOGE and not from their respective Agencies?
Which is why they are having to hire them back.
Then why did all probationary employees that were let go, receive their notification from DOGE and not from their respective Agencies?
Which is why they are having to hire them back.
re: Pocket knives
Posted by Lugnut on 2/23/25 at 12:04 pm
Moore Maker
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 1:31 pm
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Why? DOGE or some other auditor can look into the books remotely and come up with a list of questionable programs and suspect payments. Then people can some out and investigate the list that they were given by DOGE. It would be much more efficient to do it that way than to pay for plan tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, etc for inspectors to come out to each individual USDA office.
Because the “books” can only give you an idea, they don’t show everything. A lot of the waste and fraud can be cleaned up by changing policies used to administer the programs. An example would be like the type of sales evidence that is required for certain program payments. They should all be verifiable through a 3rd party. (Sales receipts that I can call the buyer and verify) But with the way the policy is written, it can be up to interpretation and based on experience, anything that is rejected is almost certainly overturned on appeal.
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 12:59 pm
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I do not want to stop all the subsidies. I want the government to look into them and investigate the subsidies and find out which ones are legit and which ones are a waste of money like planting a cover crop that the farmer kills the next spring. Which in the case of corn farming the cover crop killing starts about 2 months after the cover is planted. I also wanted the recipients of the payments audited and the abusers punished.
As someone who works for these agencies, I absolutely agree with you! There are great programs and then there are programs that are absolutely terrible. There are producers who are honest and then there are one who are terrible. Trust me the local office know who they are. The problem is the National and state offices that make the policies that the local offices have to follow. I would absolutely welcome DOGE to look into it but it honestly needs to be done with someone actually in the office looking.
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 11:26 am
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It was a typo. CRP were the prices posted. There are still other federally funded programs that also pay to not farm land.
The prices you posted also includes Continuous CRP which is different than General CRP. Continuous CRP pays more because it only takes land (180 feet max) that is next to a stream. It creates a buffer zone for water quality and stream bank stabilization. Again ONLY 180 feet MAX. The rear of the field is still in production. Because this land is so sensitive, the payment rate for this (usually very low acreage) is higher.
I have over 20 years with FSA and NRCS and I would think that I would know if there were other programs that pay farmers not to farm. So I’m very in these “other programs” that you mentioned, so please do tell?
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 10:44 am
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I know about my taxes going to prop up a private entity that can’t sustain itself. If a farmer relies on government money to survive then they deserve to fail
Have you ever grown a garden?? How about putting a pencil to it and see how sustainable it is.
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 10:34 am
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That is just one program. The SRP average is up over $80/acre and tops out around $230.+
I guess your are talking about the Sustainable Rice Platform???
That’s not even a USDA program or funded by the Govt so Try harder…
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 10:16 am
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That isn't true. The government does indeed have programs that pay farmers to not farm land and make land "native" or leave it native.
I guess you are talking about CRP which is a program that retires land that has cropping history on it for conservation efforts. I think the national average is around $60 (wow they’re getting rich)per acre to place the land in. It’s designed to place marginal (low producing) crop land. Usually doesn’t even pay the land taxes.
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 9:41 am
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Already froze a 200K contract for me.
Those are IRA funds that are frozen
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 9:39 am
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We need to do away with this type of bs.
IRA is gone
re: When is DOGE going to investigate the USDA and farmers?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 9:36 am
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Yes, I agree that it is effed up to pay farmers not to farm
The govt doesn’t pay them not to farm, they pay them not to grow a certain crop on certain amount of acres. They can plant any other crop on those acres they want. And it’s also not like they are getting rich on ARC/PLC payments anyway. Hell last year their wasn’t even a payment.
re: What’s going on with UPS?
Posted by Lugnut on 2/21/25 at 9:20 am
I think it all depends on where you are. Where I live, in Southwestern Sip, I would rank them in this order best to worst.
1. UPS (hands down the best)
2. USPS (except for lately)
3. FedEx (at least one package a day left at the wrong house in my community)
4. Amazon (you never know who or what might be delivering and all times night and day)
1. UPS (hands down the best)
2. USPS (except for lately)
3. FedEx (at least one package a day left at the wrong house in my community)
4. Amazon (you never know who or what might be delivering and all times night and day)
re: 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump's "buyout-to-resign" offer
Posted by Lugnut on 2/4/25 at 11:39 am
Everyone that I know who’s taking it was/is going to retire this year anyway. Everyone one else doesn’t trust the government. That should tell you something. The governments own employees don’t even trust the government.
Trump has already placed a hiring freeze. One of the first things he did.
Trump has already placed a hiring freeze. One of the first things he did.
re: USDA ordered to remove all references to “climate change” from the website immediately.
Posted by Lugnut on 2/1/25 at 8:28 am
Government Subsidies are needed in the Farming Industry. Without them, there would be huge swings in supply and demand. For example, without them a loaf of bread one year might cost you 10 cents and the next year it might cost you 10 dollars!
re: How many Fed Employees who have quietly gone about their jobs
Posted by Lugnut on 1/31/25 at 4:03 pm
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