Really? Is this how you think? Put a bullet in my head? For what? Because I disagree with you that the United States tax payer owes you a living. Public lands ranchers pay 17.5 million dollars in grazing fees, and the American tax payer pays for 135 million dollars in public lands subsidies through the BLM and FS. I’ve got news for you. In most places where people are recipients of welfare through the federal government, there may be nine to ten people in a one or two bedroom apartment sleeping on the floor. The children go to school to get federally subsidized breakfasts and lunches because there is no food at home in the evenings, weekends, or summer vacations. Some of these parents are the working poor and their children are forbidden to go outside when they come home from school because neighborhood conflicts can turn violent.
Public lands ranchers, on the other hand, can step outside their doors, look up at the mountains or across at the streams, and have a sense that to a point, they control their own destiny. Other Americans on government subsidies are not so fortunate. Not only that, the public lands ranchers have a government agency that serves as their intermediary to Congress. Why are public lands ranchers better than families that live in the projects of urban Atlanta or the coal fields of Appalachia?
