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haypoint (Anonymous) says…

If the building is a hazard, the county has the responsability to force you to either get it into compliance with the requirements or tear it down. If you don't they can have it torn down and attach the costs to your property taxes. If you don't pay your taxes then you lose the property. You really need to list the complaints and the violations. Is the local building department listing zoning violations or health department issues or ordinances? You can get a lot better answers to your question by being more specific.

haypoint (Anonymous) says…

During the past 30 or so years there has been as major change in the Parent-Child-Teacher relationship. Once upon a time when a teacher disciplined a student, the parents supported the teacher and the student had to adjust their own behavior. Today, however, many (most?) parents view their child's behavior as a reflection on their parenting skills and save face by siding with the child's version of events. When a teacher sends a note home that little Johnny was misbehaving, it is likely that the parents will listen to Johnny's version of this situation and complain that the teacher is “picking on ” their child or demand that the teacher make sure that other students are equally punished. 50 years ago, parents were not interested in hearing little Johnny's version, the teacher was the authority figure and the teacher was supported. Often timers now, the teacher is accused of not doing their job in keeping every student busy enough to stay out of trouble. It becomes parent/student against the teacher, bus driver and school administration. A teacher can expect to be scrutinized by parents every time a student gets a bad grade. Eventually, teachers learn that they don't have the parent's support and refrain from sending reports to parents that detail the student's bad behavior/ performances. Students soon recognize that the teachers don't have the parent's support and they lose the respect for authority that once served to motivate students. This disrespect for authority as students creates problems when they enter the workforce, as they have no respect for their employers.
Parents are doing this out of love and the feeling that they should protect their child. If the homework is too hard, instead of assigning more time for the homework and being firm (ie: if you don't get your homework done you can't go to the Mall) parents complain to the School Board that the teacher isn't doing a good job. It is this same loving protection that keeps kids from taking difficult jobs in the summer. While it was fine for past generations to mow lawns, paint houses, pick fruit, bale hay, wait tables, chop wood, today's child goes from one leisure activity to another, supported by a cornucopia of funds from parent's pocket books. The resulting lack of understanding of manual labor and work ethic creates lazy adults while increasing the number of jobs “Americans won't do” so that illegal aliens can flood into our communities.

haypoint (Anonymous) says…

Everyone expects the USDA to come running to straighten out the spread of any disease, anywhere. Most folks don't understand that it is the livestock sales, horse auctions, flea markets and county fairs that spread many diseases. Letting the Fair Board know where your chickens came from might be important information if another exhibitor had a disease sweep thru their flock following a week at your county fair. I want them to be alert and be able to quickly know who was there so we can get our animals tested. When you move, you “sign up” with the Post Office, letting them know where you live. To me that isn't much different than having an address that goes by actual location instead of street address.
While the State and Federal Govewrnment doesn't demand that my horses have a current Coggins test record, every county fair and all Horse Shows demand it. Listing your premise isn't asking much.
“You have no idea what you are signing up for” Of course you know, or should know. You are listing the location of your animals, where they came from and where they'll be after the fair is over. That's all, it isn't so hard to “wrap your mind around”.
The anti-National Animal Identification System is very well organized and vocal. The owners of 95% of the livestock in this country are all for this system. However the remaining people, hobby farmers and very small operations tend to see any regulation into their hobby as an intrusion. This general anti-government, anti- Big Farm, anti-modern farming methods manifests itself in this program. It is emotionally charged, filled with half truths and fabrications. The myth about Granny having to micro-chip her animals or that the word premises is somehow a trick to grab your property seems to just keep going. I think that if people would calm down and see how easy this is and see the good it can do for the American Farmer, both large and small, we could focus on some of the real problems in this country.
Big operations where the animals are kept in a group from birth to death are only required to have one listing. Animals that don't leave the farm don't have to be listed. I think those things are reasonable.
When a horse shows up at a race track stable and comes down with a rare or fatal disease, the place gets quarantined, all the other horses are tested and then a search is launched to find out where this came from, so those animale can be quarantined and tested. The quicker that is done, the fewer animals are exposed. If there are no records where that horse came from, we have to wait for other horses to die. The days where a farm animal or horse stays in one township or one county or even the same state are gone. We need a system to be able to trace back livestock and NAIS is easy to do.