Disappointment

Because of our switch to a wean to finish operation, we had to buy some new heaters for our buildings.  The sows had enough body heat to keep their rooms warm, and the continuous flow finishing didn't need additional heat either.  But now, there will be times when the pigs are young that we will need heat.  So, in the last week, I installed 6 new LB White heaters.  That ought to keep the pigs warm this winter.

Last Tuesday I voted.  Then Tuesday evening I chose not to pay any attention to the election coverage and went to bed without knowing the outcome.

I slept peacefully.

I was disappointed but not surprised by the headlines of the morning paper.  This country will get what it deserves. 

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

— Benjamin Franklin

 

We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."

— Nikita Khrushchev

 

"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly men."

— Lyn Nofziger
American journalist, political consultant and author.

 

 

This evening I spoke on the phone with a friend, fellow hog farmer, and Brother in Christ, who was told by his doctor that he has 8 - 12 weeks to live.  Perhaps a few months longer if they perform a risky surgery.  Suddenly all my concerns and frustrations seem trivial.  He received this news on election day.  The outcome of the election really doesn't matter much to him anymore.  And it shouldn't to me either.  There are more important things in life than fretting about earthly government.  It was a good reminder again that this earth is not our home, we are strangers and pilgrims passing through.
We will uphold this Brother and his family in our prayers.

  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2 Peter 1:10