South west RVs are not nice

wanderingbob wrote:
I do not know what to think about that rancher in the news . The media says that he has not paid his grazing fees for thirty years , why are so many people on his side ? Do other ranchers pay their fees ? May I go out there and turn my cows loose and not Pay ? There must be something that is screwed up somewhere .

It's a bit more complicated than that, Bob. His family has lived there for over a hundred and forty years. When Nevada became a state they became citizens of that state and paid open range grazing fees to the state. Then the feds decide that they needed grazing fees, too, and his family paid them. Then the feds decided that the rancher's herds were to too large until they drove all the other ranchers from the land except the Bundy's. The Bundy's realized that the fees that they were paying were being used to drive him off the land. If the Federal Goverment owns over 80% of a state, is it really a sovereign state?

Here, in Cochise County, AZ, there was a very destrutive fire in the Huachuca Mtns. a couple of years ago. The main water aqueduct feeding Tombstone was damaged and when the city/county tried to repair it the feds (Forest Service) stopped them. They were told that they could only repair it using the tools and materials used when it was originally built. It was eventually repaired...by armed citizens. It was Tombstone they were messing with. ;)

LS