Baaa-Baa Black Sheep

Sorry I have been neglecting things here in the Barnyard....shit must be getting deep, huh? Anyway, thought I would check in with you all today and share my utter and total disbelief at the amount of Sheeple that exist in the internet "comment section" world....and by that I mean people who have whole heartedly wrapped their tiny little minds around one particular "cause" and sputter and spit about it whenever they can even though they have ZERO actual knowledge of what they speak. They are the same type of people who, when tragedy strike, feel the need to hide in their home ensconced in bubble wrap. They piss and moan and whine and jump on every band wagon they can find.
The Governor is giving tax incentives to a new fertilizer plant coming to southeast Iowa. I read the article and postings via television and newspaper sites and then proceeded to read the comments section. Between the people screaming in horror that it will no doubt explode, just like the one in Texas, that it would only bring "low paying jobs" to the area and that "BIG AG" is Satan incarnate and is the cause for everything evil in the world from famine to Justin Beiber, I could not find one sane person with a legitimate comment.
Here's the deal folks, the counties in the southeast part of the state have the highest unemployment in all of Iowa. The only industry booming over there is meth. I have no idea what those jobs pay and those of you eating cheetos and playing on line instead of working don't either, so low pay or high pay, new jobs are a good thing. So are tax incentives. Tax incentives are a necessary evil of wooing big business, like it or not, it's how the game is played. Without those incentives, the fertilizer plant may have decided to hop the river and build in Illinois, then you same people bitching about the plant coming would be bitching because it didn't come to Iowa.
And those screaming about how "BIG AG" is the devil. I would for just ONE week, like to see EVERY business who is impacted by Iowa's ag economy shut down. Perhaps then you whack-jobs would see what agriculture does for this state and does for each and every one of us.
It was also announced this week that Mid American Energy is investing $1.9 billion in wind energy projects in the state...again there are whackadoos calling wind energy horrible and questioning what happens to those giant windmills when technology advances and the windmills are deemed useless....(THUD) Because wind is going to disappear? Because Mid American made wind, right????? Seriously....you bitch and whine and moan about coal and nuclear and fossil fuels, so we have harnessed the wind and are converting into energy and that is a bad thing too? Will you never be happy?
Le sigh....
I hate that I just talk to you people when I have something to bitch about..perhaps I will have a better story tomorrow, after all, today we being breeding season....Seeders were put in and pulled and today, the girls get A.I.'ed....That's right kids, 50-some horny heifers are roaming our pasture today. Hide your bulls.
Oh, and we weighed in the sheep and goats too, I am sure we will have many a story on the taming of those little guys. For those of you keeping score that means two steers, three breeding heifers, two market goats, two market lambs, two breeding goats, a bottle bucket calf...and a partridge in a pear tree.