There are a couple of things that irritate me and one is the federal government shut down. Anyone in the Senate and House should lose all pay when it is shut down and he or she should also be fined $500 per day.
When it goes to affecting them financially they will find a way to negotiate. That wouldn’t bother some in there because most go in there broke and come out rich with only modest salaries, in my opinion. Hmmm I wonder how that happens.
I don’t know whether electing people who proudly claim they are socialist bothers you, but it scares me. Moreso for my kids and grandkids. America better wake up on that. Many men and women gave their life for our freedom. Let’s not lose it.
The other issue that makes me mad every day is the telemarketer and robo calls. This is pathetic as I know people are falling for these scams. It’s pathetic. Someone has to be giving them the right to get a number or appear to have that number that makes it look like a United States number. Quit letting these scammers abuse American people.
When the cattle market is going up you have many buyers reaching out front betting on the market getting higher. The same scenario goes when it’s going down cattlemen turn south particularly with our cattle futures manipulation by fund trading and large investors or packer and retailers selling the board, in my opinion. The only reason they haven’t been able to control the market this time is the fact of being short of total numbers of cattle. Trust me it’s not that they all became Christians this past two years.
I love to buy cattle when others are depressed as there is a lot less competition. If it falls a long ways then you can never buy them cheap enough, but remember we are still short on numbers.
Remember real cowboy friends don’t get offended when you say something offensive, they just smile and call you something worse.
Pigeons are better than people at making a small deposit on a pickup.
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the view of High Plains Journal. Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
