You've never lived in the northern part of Ontario, Manitoba etc. Its all wonderful to talk about that stuff, but that sort of agriculture just cannot exist there. I spent a couple of years in a town outside of Thompson Manitoba. All that was there, aside from the mine and the town, was miles and miles of bog and forest. In places like that a B&B is about as laughable.
On 1/24/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Larry wrote: > > So how do you set up a honey farm or B&B in a lumber, mill or mining > > town in northwestern Ontario. That's being unrealistic. > > > > Uh, what? You just do it. I lived in a mining town. It probably > takes less than $500 to get a decent amount of money rolling in. > > My mother-in-law has a friend who grew up with her in a chicken > company town in Texas. While my mother-in-law moved away to start a > family, this lady starting making candles with less than $50 of > supplies. > > Her company is now Yankee Candle's competitor and she just built a > 6000 sq ft second home in Vale. > > > The most common complaint I heard was that whenever the employees in > > the town started agitating for better health care or a more reasonable > > wage, given the area, there'd be layoffs. Frequently targeted layoffs. > > > > Exactly! The complaint is, "The company owes me <fill in the blank>." > Could be money, could be health care, whatever. How so, the union was trying to get the company to live up to the agreed labour contract, how is that the company owes me. The whole thing eventually went to court and the International Nickle was forced to comply with the agreement, as it should have done in the first place. No entitlement here, just living up to the signed agreement. > > The plain fact is nobody owes those people anything. If they want > something they need to stop whining and go get it. If they aren't > happy with the company then create a job, get another job, or move. > There. Problem solved. You may want to check the colour of your glasses. Problem solved? Except for minor details like families, possessions etc. If there are no other jobs in the area, which is quite common in many company towns, then what do you do. It also requires money to move out of the area. > > > As for there not being any profit in it, look at the Calvert > > Corporation, one of the more profitable investment firms. > > That's exactly what I'm talking about. It already exists in the > private sector and there is no need to move it to government and, if > you did, it wouldn't work. You mean like crown corporations in Canada not working. -- Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmond Burke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:193983 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
