The Fed's War Out West

"The injustice that has befallen the Hammond family in Oregon is symptomatic of the larger problem of massive federal ownership of land throughout the rural West," said Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research. "Farmers and ranchers in the West are subjected to the whims of federal bureaucrats, who lord over the region like an occupying power. But the relentless harassment of hard-working families is only part of the story. All Americans suffer when the country is denied access to the valuable natural resources locked up on or beneath millions of acres of federal land. The best stewards of the land are the people who own it, people whose livelihoods are dependent on responsible stewardship of their property. It is time to end the rural West's colonial status by getting the feds off the land, and selling that land to willing buyers." - Dr. Bonner Cohen.

Dr. Cohen will be my guest on the KTT Radio Program today.