Total I’m running 576 head all on our place, we’ve had a wet year and the pastures held up as well as all the stock ponds. Nice crop of calves coming in and the weather though cold hasn’t been extreme. We average 400 to 600 head a year depending on rain. Whether that land is owned by the Feds hands or owned by the states hands it’s still not owned by you which puts you dependent on somebody else for your livelihood, something I care not to do. This is my place and I make the rules.
“Whether that land is owned by the Feds hands or owned by the states hands it’s still not owned by you which puts you dependent on somebody else for your livelihood, something I care not to do. This is my place and I make the rules.”
Two points. No argument on you owning and ruling yours which is the ideal situation. Point two, in the scheme of things the Fed doesn’t or shouldn’t own squat. The States made it possible for them to exist, and no sovereign state is going to allow an all powerful Federal government to out own the states. As a State you would never place overwhelming power in the hands of limited Government, never. It is the nature of the Constitution itself and the enumerated powers that places limits on the Fed.
That said, we know where we are today, and it is not what the founding fathers had in mind. We know and understand original intent, because the founders were liberal in their writings explaining their intent. We have moved far from the ideal and the Fed has become the problem as the founders also saw, attempting to place as many restrictions on federal overreach as they thought prudent to apparent no avail.
Stopping the relentless progress of the beast will be the most difficult challenge “we the people” will face in the short history of this Republic. Land should be in State hands where it can be properly administered and made available to the public for benefit to the state as is the case in 38 states already. It doesn’t mean wholesale distribution or sale, it means for benefit of the State and citizens of the state, and there are 12 Western States that do not have what rightfully belongs to them for their well being and support.