Young Farmers, Ranchers Face Concerns but Express Optimism

[jamiehuggins]

I just like to comment on things I know about. If i don't know anything about it then I don't feel like I should be making statements about it. Sure I'll ask questions and gain information, but I just don't see the point in trying to lie to people and tell them stuff I know things that I don't know.

[leanin' H]

Welcome to Ranchers Jamie! But with comments like the one ya just made your pretty much never gonna be a politician! I like ya already!

[jamiehuggins]

I make a fool of myself easily enough without telling people I know about topics I have no clue about. I was always taught that your learn more with your ears open and your mouth shut. Personally I think that's why this whole world is gone belly up. People see something that catches their eye and instead of learning more about it they just go to running the show. Take for instance equine slaughter, agriculture, and guns.

[leanin' H]

I take it back! I'd like ya to run for congress or the president! I've always found I do better when I broadcast less than I receive!

[jamiehuggins]

I had to take a student college success class and they made us fill out a paper to tell us what we should major in. I knew was I was going to school for before I knew what school I was going to but I realize not everybody has it figured out. Anyhow, after I took the little quiz it told me one of my options would be in politics. I find that funny, I do care very much about what the government is doing and my future as well as the future of my children should I have any. However, it has been proven time and time again that exactly the opposite is what it takes to be in any office. Hopefully people will wake up and learn to look for the truth and not believe what runs across the TV screen in front of them.

[mrj]

It's great to see a young person with such a good mind AND common sense!

Here's wishing you the best of outcomes of your education and career choices, THEN some time filling your civic duty by a term or maybe a few in various public office.

That, in this elderly ladies' opinion is how our government was intended to be served, rather than as a "career" in politics which so many have chosen as a means to enrich themselves while impoverishing out nation.

mrj

[jamiehuggins]

I from time to time let my mind drift into the possibilities of me running for an office, but I'm just not sure about that whole mess. I'm not sure how far I would get being honest. I know that there are people who disagree with my views but I wouldn't be able to lie to them and promise them I would help them out when I had the opposite intention. Thank you for the best wishes, and who knows maybe one day I'll run for an office.

[mrj]

What I would like to see from more young people, and even not-so-young, is your attitude of waiting a few years.

Maturity is a necessary component, sadly lacking in some, for the serious civic responsibility of public office.

However, keeping politics and study of our governmental origins, observing the workings, and failures!, of business, life, education, and other makeup of the fabric of our nation and people in mind while persuing education and a work career is what allows responsible people to serve well in government as a civic responsiblity. We surely do need more people who understand the SERVICE part of that effort, and to forget the SELF serving part.

Don't forget to have fun and to explore and enhance your family ties and your faith along the way, too. People who do so seem to be more successful in life, whether 'the world' would consider them 'successful' or not!

mrj

[jamiehuggins]

I think its essential for people in general, no matter what area of life we are talking about, need to learn as much as they can about it before trying to conquer it. And after you have gained enough information to tackle what ever you are up against, keep learning.

That is my ultimate goal in life, to keep learning till the day I die. There is so much useful information in the world and its a shame that a lot of people think that once they have learned how to efficiently do something they no longer need to know more.

We didn't get to where we are today with all our modern technology and techniques by our previous generations learning what was already available and then calling it good and leaving it at that. What a slap in the face is it to those who spent their whole lives to improve the subject they were in just to have future generations learn the basics and let the rest go to waste.