Oh, so you know little or nothing about grazing permits???? Interesting. In your admitted ignorance, why don’t you ‘splain to me what it is I don’t know about what I’m saying??
You are a bit of an arrogant jerk....you made your money in oil - but you look down your nose at the guys who depend on these permits to make their ranches viable and tell them, “if you don’t like the terms, don’t take the lease”. And you say this while admitting that you know the feds are not to be trusted....sounds to me like you are the kind of neighbor that hopes for the other guy’s hardship, so you can buy up his land with your oil money. I’ve known several of your kind...
The whole point I have been making is that the feds are lying bastards (another way of saying they are not to be trusted). They give conflicting directives, change the deal, and generally make it difficult for the grazer. You prance in, defending the lying bastards, while telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about and the feds are not to be trusted. BRILLIANT!! In a formal debate, you would have just conceded my point, while proving I do indeed know EXACTLY what I’m talking about.
Don’t you think that lying bastard thing is at the heart of this whole thing? If the feds would be upfront and honest in dealing with the permit holders, and not treat them as adversaries, these situations wouldn’t happen.
Not to get in the middle of an argument, but I just wanted to add something. This is an attitude that is prevalent across not only the bureaucrats but also leos and politicians ... that they are the masters of the public rather than servants of the public.