How can he pay grazing fees, when the Feds stopped it in the 90's ?
They made the land unaccessible (which violated the States open range rule) so that they could use the land the way they wanted to. With the stupid excuse of a tortoise that was never endangered to begin with.
The Western States have been fighting the Feds over owing their land for a very long time.
When each Western State was formed the feds were suppose to give their ownership of the land to the States.
Each of the States have been fighting the Feds over this for over one hundred years.
Landownership in America
There was a most interesting observation on land ownership in America. A noted economist wrote, “The public lands of the United States exceed the combined areas of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungry, and Albania.” He concluded, “Where socialized ownership of land is concerned, only the USSR and China can claim company with the U.S.” Now does anyone want to guess as to who that economist might have been? It is not Milton Friedman. I guess nobody knows. It turns out that what makes this such an interesting observation is that it was a liberal economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, whose work many of you may know or have read. The other interesting thing about that quote is that he said, “The only two countries on the planet that can claim company with the U.S. when it comes to socialized land are USSR and China. That quote was written in 1981. Guess what! The USSR is gone. Chinese collective farms are gone. It is likely the United States of American, the shining city on the hill, now has the most socialist land system of any country on the planet.
There are two observations here. One is that practically nobody knows that or understands the significance of that. And secondly, the socialization of our land is growing. It is not even slowing. It is still continuing to grow and the question is what is the purpose? Where are we going? What is the end? What is the goal? Congress neither seems to know how much land is owned by the government nor even care.
Both Parties have been doing this for over 20 years, this is what this fight is all about.
