Those Poor Ranchers

The Bundy group is arguing that the BLM policies are depriving ranchers of their right to a livelihood.  Just how devastating are these government policies?

In addition, check out this Harpers article from the original Cliven Bundy showdown.

I had planned to ask Bundy why he was complaining about a government that had been so patient with his shenanigans, one that subsidized ranchers like him with enormous largesse. This was a government, I wanted to remind him, that had set the federal grazing fee at $1.35 a month per cow-calf pair when the market rate on private land averaged $11.90, and it was spending at least $500 million annually in direct and indirect subsidies for public-lands ranchers. (In an essay for this magazine that was published in 1986, Edward Abbey called Western cattlemen “welfare parasites.”)

  Harper's

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

And....

"That other movement."  Can't bring himself to say "Black Lives Matter".    If he weren't so busy fighting against the Bureau, I have no doubt he'd be fighting "that other movement."

And indeed, that's what they've been getting for more than a century.

Somebody called them ammosexuals.