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OnDoutside

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3. That has been a continuous fight. Interestingly, I was listening to

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 21, 2017, 03:41 AM

Aug 2017

a farming program recently here, and there's a government program to encourage train unemployed workers to cross train into farming jobs, to try and increase farming workers.

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True, there's a fair bit of it in Ireland too. Rural isolation coupled OnDoutside Aug 2017 #1

Well there ya go...problem solved! angstlessk Aug 2017 #2

That has been a continuous fight. Interestingly, I was listening to OnDoutside Aug 2017 #3

Sounds like a good program...if it pays more than slave wages angstlessk Aug 2017 #4

That's also happening in India Warpy Aug 2017 #6

Yeah that was from a crackpot member of Parliament from Kilgarvan, a rural village where his family OnDoutside Aug 2017 #7

They'd fit right in if they were plunked down in West Virginia or Kentucky Warpy Aug 2017 #8

She had a hard life whirlygigspin Aug 2017 #5