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Originally Posted by dyna mo
For me there are many things going on here and I look at them separately.
- the guy is a freeloader. He hasn't paid his bill in 20 years, I get that, but if he never signed the contract back in 1993 then he hasn't been getting a bill
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Hearing him on the radio here...he said he had paid his fees to the county the entire time for use of that land.
I have no "proof" of that. But that is what he said.
And I certainly wouldn't call anyone who works hard to make a living a "freeloader". His family have had their cattle grazing that land long before the U.S. govt. was involved.
Matter of fact, ALL cattle use to free-range graze. That's the way the cattle business worked historically.
It was only until the invention of barbed wire that cattle were ever fenced in.
Every cowboy movie you ever saw where they were doing a "round up" of cows was because they grazed on the open range.
To me...a "freeloader" is a lazy piece of shit who doesn't have a job and lives entirely off of the govt. from their housing to their food stamps.
Not a rancher who puts in more hours a day working hard than 99% of the people.