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I told ya the puppy would quit whining.................guess I was right :wink:
Oldtimer said:I saw something last week that I haven't seen in 8-10 years - the Sheriff under court order moving in and seizing a business and their bank accounts - taking the till contents- backing the semis to the doors for 2 days and taking all the stock and fixtures ...
And last week I understand it occured with 4 business's-and 1 ranch property in just this little county.... :roll:Brought back old sad memories of the 80's with their 18% interest rates and all the 2nd- 3rd generation farms/ranches/business places that had to be seized and the contents put up at Sheriffs' Auction- and the birth and actions of the Posse Comitatus and Gordon Kaul.....
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. Don't lie to me anymore, you are a Democrat, and all you guys hate Bush. Democrats love to demogogue fiscally conservative Republicans like "push old people in the street" and "starve kids."
katrina said:Oldtimer said:I saw something last week that I haven't seen in 8-10 years - the Sheriff under court order moving in and seizing a business and their bank accounts - taking the till contents- backing the semis to the doors for 2 days and taking all the stock and fixtures ...
And last week I understand it occured with 4 business's-and 1 ranch property in just this little county.... :roll:Brought back old sad memories of the 80's with their 18% interest rates and all the 2nd- 3rd generation farms/ranches/business places that had to be seized and the contents put up at Sheriffs' Auction- and the birth and actions of the Posse Comitatus and Gordon Kaul.....
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So OT what do we do? Just what they did...
Just write off the debt they owe? Nope- I don't think you'll find many people or banks that will do that- altho historically some banks stopped foreclosing back in the dirty 30's because they got tired of taking care of all the land/houses they were acquiring thru foreclosure....
If you have money in a savings in the bank, do you want to recieve a low interest rate on it? Looks like thats whats happening now because of all the cheapening money that is being printed....
So many times money is barrowed with the intent not to ever paying it back.
There has to be more to the story......
I don't have the full story - it was over non-payment of debt- but I don't know the cause behind it...I'm just hoping it isn't a sign of the times we are moving into-- because I remember those times too well-- of the wife and kids standing on the steps of a now empty house whose furniture/fixtures had all been loaded in a semi bound for storage- along with semis loaded with farm equipment and cattle being impounded- awaiting auction....Not a pretty sight...Once I gathered- impounded- and sold 700+ head of cattle on a court order for nonpayment of bills...
Some times it was the persons own fault for bad management- other times it was a combination of things- crop failure- drought- or the rising 15--18% and higher operating notes that they couldn't pay.....
I know of several Sheriffs back during that time that "retired" as they couldn't stand the job of foreclosing on many of the old friends they'd known for many years...
I mentioned this situation to Faster Horses earlier in the week in a PM-- because one of the business's that was closed had handled the Vigortone mineral for their local dealer- which now makes getting your hands on 10-20 sacks when you need it much harder....
Oldtimer said:Getting this back to the original subject of the thread- cattle prices and the economy--
Have any of you talked with your normal buyers about selling calves this summer/fall? ....
I was at a meeting the other day where the conversation of several of the ranchers turned to the point that their regular buyers that they had contracted their calves to- either in person or on Superior Video- or the Internet Video-(Nov. deliveries contracted in May-Aug) had been telling them they would probably not be doing much/any early buying this year either in person or on the videos due to the uncertainty of the economy...
It made for some awful glum ranchers faces....
Anyone else had any contact with or heard anything like this :???: