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LakeArenal

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2. I have Amish friends who tended to say things like:

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 09:44 PM

May 2020

I heard good things about “a conservative.”

Like Ron Johnson. Otherwise they don’t vote.

I’m sure they have not heard much about the virus.

My Amish friends were totally self sufficient. Never going to any supermarket or department store. Not even the Amish grocery store.

They own a greenhouse and my friend Rosanna runs it. He farms and labors in the greenhouse. I’m sure they won’t be wearing masks. They have no health insurance and pay cash. Her granddaughter was born having seizures. They paid cash for her treatment. Must have been a fortune.

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RW assholes in the plant nursery. [View all] Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 OP

I don't know. I worked with Amish for years. They are conservative but really doubt they'd support a captain queeg May 2020 #1

Wow, that's totally different from what my friend who works with them says. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #5

Wow that is totally different. Never knew them to lie LakeArenal May 2020 #8

So true. I started with a very unrealistic view of them as kind of hippies living off the land. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #10

Generators too. LakeArenal May 2020 #11

I have Amish friends who tended to say things like: LakeArenal May 2020 #2

In PA, where I live the Amish are not nearly as isolated and unaware. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #6

Seems like they avoid what could be their fair share of taxes. mobeau69 May 2020 #3

Precisely. Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #4

Where my wife is from is western KY concreteblue May 2020 #7

I'm guessing it is around here, too. Say with Amish construction crews working far enough away from Dark n Stormy Knight May 2020 #9

They pay property tax, income tax and sales tax inWI. LakeArenal May 2020 #12

It's been many years since I worked with the Amish in Ohio captain queeg May 2020 #13