Well, this guy started out smart - he really did - then he swerved into a ditch. This is not at all like the issue of discrimminating against blacks or gays on one’s own property. Nope, sorry, that ain’t gonna fly.
But it is about the question of just WTF is the Fed doing owning and ruling one eighth of the country, and allowing Harry Reid to cut deals on that land, in the first place.
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that’s what this is all about!
It's 28%. And it's 50% of the 13 western states, 84% of Nevada.
I think part of the story is that he was paying grazing fees with the basic contract being the Feds would use it for upkeep and whatnot so he could keep grazing. Instead they collaberated with enviros to do the opposite, as well as force him to run fewer and fewer cattle for those same fees, among other things.
At some point I’d stop paying too if there was that kind of breach of contract.
The other things you mentioned are spot on.