Posted on 02/23/2016 11:30:09 AM PST by Jeff Chandler
"There's not a cowboy in this room that couldn't qualify for disability. We want to work. You're making us dependent upon the federal government for compensation. Our best direction to make a living is now in the form of compensation from the federal government. At the end of the day the only way money is generated is harvest the animal you grow. You're choppin' the legs out from under us. If we could make a living with wolves, there would still be wolves here. Not just cattle...elk and deer bring in money to the economy. But the wolf doesn't contribute. Saddens me we're being made wards of the government. Like going on welfare. The whole process saddens me. I don't want welfare, I just want to make a living. But, what choice do I have?"
(Excerpt) Read more at mogollonrimnews.com ...
More rape of the American West by the federal government - and Trump wants to leave the feds in charge of the vast majority of the western US...
So this is where the Guantanomo terrorists are going?
While the release of wolves poses a major threat to the income of ranchers, hunters, outfitters and others in the West, the bigger issue is the ownership of vast tracts of the West by the federal government.
“...out west, the government lays claim to huge, state-sized swaths of land — more than 630 million acres, greater than the landmass of Texas, California, Florida and New York combined. In some states, government agencies are the biggest landowner; in Nevada, 80 percent of land is federally owned.”
More at: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/federal-land-ownership/422637/
We shoot wolves when they come on the ranch. Period.
Because “the rubes”* can’t be trusted with this land, yannow.
*i.e. the citizens
The problem here is that he doesn’t know enough of the core issues to make an argument. Evidenced by the Hannity interview last night. His perception was only focused on the takeover of the ranger station.
When he realized there was far more to the issue because of the audiences response to the question posed to them from Hannity, he then said he would have to look into it further. The positive note is if you were to watch DJT, Jr’s town hall in Elko, it is obvious that he gets it. I would assume since he was also in the audience that pops and Jr will have some discussions about it.
We observed two gray wolves 6 miles north of Payson near the East Verde river. We were driving home just after Thanksgiving. It was our first wolf sighting in the area in 5 years.
Roger that. SSS
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