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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1321308" data-attributes="member: 40736"><p>Best article I've read on the mess. The entire article is not too long, but explains quite a bit:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cliven-bundy-homestead-act-history" target="_blank">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cliven-bundy-homestead-act-history</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Fair use excerpt:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><em>Students of the history of the American West have long known that the strong, rugged individualists that populate our movies, TV shows, and myths always depended on government – to give them ownership of their farms and ranches, to subsidize private corporations like railroads for access to markets, for federal troops for protection from Indians, and federally funded dams and canals for irrigating their fields and sustaining their livestock and towns. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>The idea that Bundy’s pioneer ancestors somehow made their fortunes (“built that”) without any help, before the invention of government assistance, the Bureau of Land Management or federal regulations, is preposterous.</em></p><p><em>...</em></p><p></p><p><em>The Homestead Act was one of the most far-reaching and important pieces of legislation ever enacted in the United States. It was also undeniably a massive (and successful) social welfare program. It gave an applicant ownership – at no cost! – of farmland made up of 160 acres of undeveloped federal land. The land wasn’t what some on the libertarian right would archly call a “handout”: a would-be homesteader was required to file an application, improve the land by building fences and structures, and, after five years’ residency and toil, file for a permanent deed of title. But it was a government program designed both to settle the West with farmers and ranchers and to dispose of the public lands. “Winners” were undoubtably picked.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1321308, member: 40736"] Best article I've read on the mess. The entire article is not too long, but explains quite a bit: [url]http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cliven-bundy-homestead-act-history[/url] [SIZE=2]Fair use excerpt: [/SIZE] [I]Students of the history of the American West have long known that the strong, rugged individualists that populate our movies, TV shows, and myths always depended on government – to give them ownership of their farms and ranches, to subsidize private corporations like railroads for access to markets, for federal troops for protection from Indians, and federally funded dams and canals for irrigating their fields and sustaining their livestock and towns. The idea that Bundy’s pioneer ancestors somehow made their fortunes (“built that”) without any help, before the invention of government assistance, the Bureau of Land Management or federal regulations, is preposterous. ...[/I] [I]The Homestead Act was one of the most far-reaching and important pieces of legislation ever enacted in the United States. It was also undeniably a massive (and successful) social welfare program. It gave an applicant ownership – at no cost! – of farmland made up of 160 acres of undeveloped federal land. The land wasn’t what some on the libertarian right would archly call a “handout”: a would-be homesteader was required to file an application, improve the land by building fences and structures, and, after five years’ residency and toil, file for a permanent deed of title. But it was a government program designed both to settle the West with farmers and ranchers and to dispose of the public lands. “Winners” were undoubtably picked.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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