How do you feel about multi-millionaires passing out the hat?

[PeterRS]

On 2/19/2026 at 2:59 PM, unicorn said:

 (1) It was alleged that I couldn't understand the reluctance of the farmer to sell the property because the US is only 250 years old, and this land has been held in the family for centuries. I then gave references proving that the land was given to those farmers towards the end of the US administration of Japan, in the early 1950s. That farmer would, in fact be born around the time his family received that land.

And that is total and utter B/S. You seriously believe that Japanese land was dished out by the US administration? What a ridiculous joke! You are implying that Japanese agriculltural history started after WWII? As others wrote consistently to which you failed to pay any attention, most Japanese land had been farmed for many, many generations of the same family. You will no doubt claim that the land itself became subject to Japanese government control following increasing resentment against landlords who hiked rents to ridiculous levels, drove many farmers from their land, the establishment of the earlier Imperial Agricultural Association and then the Nihon Nomin Kumiai, the latter effectively the farmers' union formed for collective bargaining. 

During the wartime economy, the government realised that the landlord system was a serious impediment to increasing productivity. It set up the Central Agricultural Association to supervise farming under the economy in wartime and later. This is typical of many worldwide governments which have departments in charge of agriculture. But farmers still owned the land their families had owned for generations and generations. This fact you cannot grasp. So best not to comment on it.

[Keithambrose]

4 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

And that is total and utter B/S. You seriously believe that Japanese land was dished out by the US administration? What a ridiculous joke! You are implying that Japanese agriculltural history started after WWII? As others wrote consistently to which you failed to pay any attention, most Japanese land had been farmed for many, many generations of the same family. You will no doubt claim that the land itself became subject to Japanese government control following increasing resentment against landlords who hiked rents to ridiculous levels, drove many farmers from their land, the establishment of the earlier Imperial Agricultural Association and then the Nihon Nomin Kumiai, the latter effectively the farmers' union formed for collective bargaining. 

During the wartime economy, the government realised that the landlord system was a serious impediment to increasing productivity. It set up the Central Agricultural Association to supervise farming under the economy in wartime and later. This is typical of many worldwide governments which have departments in charge of agriculture. But farmers still owned the land their families had owned for generations and generations. This fact you cannot grasp. So best not to comment on it.

Please stop!!

[PeterRS]

2 minutes ago, Keithambrose said:

Please stop!!

So if a poster comments that what you and some others have posted is nonsense, you'd rather walk away than present the facts? I'm perfectly happy to stop when you tell the other poster @unicorn to stop - and he then stops. Have you done so? Good luck!