Roy W. Lang
Republican Candidate for Governor -- 2004
P.O. Box 204
Davisville, Missouri 65456
.. . . . This is a type of tractor that would be more useful in the type of terrain of the "Lead Belt" of Missouri -- ridges, hollows, rocks, trees and small fields. (Most not even an acre large.) It will till, plant, cultivate, mow, make crops easier and faster to pick, and be more maneuverable in small areas. It was designed for vegetable and specialty crops of approximately six acres.. . . . A farm family in New York State says it gets $7600 per acre of peas with 6 acres. If they can do it in New York State, why cant we do it in the Ozarks? (The land cannot be that different.)
. . . . This tractor is developed with American ingenuity by Americans and I want to encourage you to use your ingenuity to develop your ideas on any endeavor you choose.
. . . . ‘Find a need and fill it’. ‘Built a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door. These are very well known old sayings.
. . . . An increase in Yankee ingenuity and self-reliance will result in less foreign competition plus reduce American monopolism that will help reduce inflation by getting more goods for the dollar and lower unemployment. The monopolists will have to hire the less willing or less skillful and train them, and maybe reform them, thus relieving the welfare burden off the backs of the willing and self-disciplined striver. The willing and self-disciplined worker with ingenuity and self-reliance entering into competitive free enterprise (business) will have a multiplying effect on growth:
. . . . I would also like to make something clear, self-employment is not for everyone. It can be very aggravating, but if you think you can handle it, you will be amazed at the self-satisfaction.
- a. He or she creates his own job.
- b. A job he does not take, he leaves for someone else to take.
- c. He will probably hire a worker because he will be busy with management aspects of the business.
- d. It will increase the total amount of machinery that in reality is someone else’s sales.
- e. It will increase efficiency in an industry that leads to lower prices that in turn causes an increase in volume, which creates more jobs in a never-ending chain of events, unless it is monopolized by a few managers.
. . . . Let's do it.
Roy Lang For Governor -- 2004
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.1) Make ethanol -- 1000 stills (at least one in every county) of moderate scale approximately 90,000 gallons a year and to convert county equipment to ethanol to create demand. Specific Proposals from Roy Lang
2) Encourage more people to engage in growing vegetable and specialty crops on a small acreage basis (approximately 6) with more suitable and less expensive equipment. There is a farm family in New York State raising $7200.00 worth of peas per acre on 6 acres. The fact that 90% of the people are being fed by the other 10% is an ecological and social disaster waiting to happen. There is some evidence this is already starting. (Read Vegetable Growers News regarding crop diseases).
3) Reduce beauracracy by persuading many clerks and typists (which are among the finest example of willing and self-disciplined people of America) to enter into vegetable raising and processing along with ethanol ventures or any other they choose. Even if we have to subsidize them for several years, maybe 7, (we cannot expect them to succeed in one year, no matter how self-disciplined). This would also decrease unemployment and would reduce the welfare burden allowing more money for schools and other benefits.
4) Some state services can be cut back and privatized to the people, such as cutting grass on highways and county roads (even in areas of the Ozarks where much roadside right-a-ways are on state and federal land. Equipment for private enterprise is increasingly of low cost and less laborious. This would be a great savings in equipment and personnel for the State, and private enterprise is usually more efficient. The layed-off personnel could be induced to enter proposal #3.
5) Cut the State budget by 10%. There is at least that much waste and inefficiency in government activity.
6) Much county equipment can be shared by the various counties. Much equipment can be more simplified and less expensive. Because of the size of equipment budget, much equipment could be developed by Missourians in private enterprise. Because of less technical nature of many state functions, they do not need to be so expensive and can be less complicated. Examples: County trucks for road maintenance and cutting grass on road right-of-ways and many more I can’t even think of, but members of the public can if they were encouraged to think in this manner. There is much talk about some highways becoming toll roads. This is a good example of alternative thinking. Personally when I use something I am willing to pay and when I don’t use something, I don’t like to pay.
. . . . There is an old song, "I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Self employment can be a very aggravating thing. It is not the ideal thing for everyone, but for those who think they can handle all the problems involved, it can be enormously self-satisfying even to those who are not successful at it, but it will help them to gain self-reliance, capability and knowledge which will be useful for employment elsewhere and they will still climb the ladder of economic mobility.
. . . . As I have said elsewhere in these writings, self-employment has a positive, beneficial and has a geometrical effect on, employment and unemployment, efficiency, the welfare burden, more evenly spread of wealth, less inflation, less social dissatisfaction caused by the feeling that all burdens are on the back of the willing and self-disciplined and there will be more of a "comradly" feeling that "We are all in the same boat, so we might as well row it together." My father had and saw this philosophical viewpoint during the depression of the 1930’s. I am sure that if Thomas Jefferson were alive today he would like this social phenomenom.
. . . . These proposals cannot be put into effect without wide public discussion and even a referendum of them. After all, the public must see a positive advantage in implementing them. We have seen in the last 75 years (especially) how big government programs are detrimental to the maintenance of positive characteristics of people such as work ethics, self-reliance, ingenuity and many, many more. It may take several years for the discussion to complete, but it must start now or soon.
The purpose of these proposals is to:
The problem does not seem to be lack of employment; it seems to be one of redistribution of employment or lack of managers, so as to let the beneficial effects of competition guide us.
- a) Spread the wealth around more evenly.
- b) Promote less dependence on big business.
- c) Reduce unemployment.
- d) Reduce the welfare burden.
- e) Release more money for schools and also teach skills that pertain to ingenuity and economic diversity "other ways to skin a cat," as the old saying goes.
- f) Get more goods for the dollar (reduce inflation)
- g) Increase a sense of ingenuity and self-reliance.
- h) Reduce the necessity for foreign competition.
- i) Reduce monopolism by creating more managers of goods on the market, thus less price control by the monopolists.
- j) Reduce the size of the bureauocracy without causing unemployment.
"Competition is the controller of price, kind and amount of goods on the market."
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith -- published 1776.Vote for Roy Lang -- The Man With A Plan
Roy Lang, Republican Candidate for Governor of Missouri
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