The biggest threat to those animals comes from the bureaucracy charged with protecting them according to a December 7 opinion piece in Townhall.
WARNING: The article has been tainted with links to the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and the Property and Environment Research Center.
The approach seems reasonable. If you’re trying to reduce government waste, go after the programs that aren’t fulfilling their mandates.
But you can’t limit your analysis to things on the surface. The Wild Horse and Burro Program is a grazing program ancillary.
This is where conservatives will go all wobbly.
You don’t expect us to take those ranchers off the public lands?
Yeah we do. They’re a shining example of government dependence and redistribution of wealth.
Confine them to their base properties in a year-round off season and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.
The problem is not the bureaucracy charged with protecting the horses and burros, it’s the special interests that have co-opted the bureaucracy charged with protecting them.
They have invaded the agency the same way cancer invades cells.
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