[rescue] Look who's a slashdot weenie!

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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:21:58 -0500
> From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Look who's a slashdot weenie!
> To: patrick at zill.net, The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:11:43PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
>> True, many of them have left this area and gone somewhere where land
>> is cheaper.  I did see one at Costco the other day though.
> 
> You saw one picking up a 20" tube from you the other week.
>  
>> Y'know, it's funny how some folks (no one on this list) make fun of
>> these folks; but they never go into debt, and over time, they sell off
>> their farms bought for say $1000 per acre to developers or other
>> farmers for much, much, more than that.  
> 
> Generally Amish don't.  Mennonites in general might be more debt free
> than the general American, but some (many) do borrow money.
>  
>> I'd bet that investing in Lancaster Co. farmland over the last 50
>> years has been a better investment than the S&P 500 or the Dow.  And
>> it certainly has better tax treatment, and in the meantime they live
>> on the farm.
> 
> Probably. 
> 
Hey I live in Lancaster Country Also, well Uhhhhh Lancaster County Nebraska, 
AKA Lincoln Nebraska.  Ah Well. 

   Chris B 

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