Wrong Thinking

I have a question for Rick Sampsen about a comment he made in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/17/build/state/25-farm.inc">newest story</a> in the Gazette's series Unsettling Times.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Billings has sucked Eastern Montana dry," Sampsen said, referring to the young people gone to the city for a different life.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhat in tarnation is so wrong with our young people wanting something other in their life to work on the family farm or ranch? Not all children are cut out for such a life. Would you rather shackle them to the place and make them work there whether they want to or not? I've seen the results of this myself. It leads to bitter, unhappy people that never got a chance to discover for themselves whether the farm/ranch is what they really want to do. I want better than this for my kids and all Montana kids, an opportunity to experience something other than their little corner of it.<br />n<br />n<b>Liberty requires opportunity to make a living-a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for. Franklin D. Roosevelt</b>