>>Idealism built this country, and it
>>will advance it into the
>>future as well. With 7
>>billion people in this world
>>and counting, it's gonna take
>>a lot of idealism to
>>ensure this generation and future
>>ones a good world to
>>live in. Go ahead though,
>>stay in your century old
>>school of thought, the society
>>will move forward and leave
>>you there. The problem with
>>places like San Juan county
>>is they don't want to
>>change in a changing world.
>>They want to stay the
>>same in a world that
>>is not the same. Time
>>to move forward with thought
>>not stay stuck where you
>>are, the world isn't going
>>to wait for you or
>>San Juan county, the world
>>will just keep moving on.
>>Garfish on
www.utahwildlife.net said it
>>best in his post about
>>Paunguitch regarding bitterness over the
>>GSENM:
>>
>>Quote from GaryFish
>>"Perhaps the biggest shift is that
>>in all resource industries -
>>logging, farming, ranching, and mining
>>- are now working in
>>a global marketplace. And the
>>efficiency of location for the
>>best possible places to grow/cut/extract
>>comes into much stronger play.
>>Garfield County timber operations must
>>compete with Russian, Canadian, and
>>Alaskan operations, not to mention
>>South American. Same with cattle.
>>Heck, no place in Utah
>>can even begin to compete
>>with grazing lands in Montana,
>>Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, let
>>alone internationally. And digging up
>>substandard coal that is so
>>deep that even in the
>>best of conditions wouldn't be
>>economically feasible - especially in
>>a global energy situation that
>>is pushing away from coal
>>just doesn't make sense. But
>>to those that seldom cross
>>the Payson-Dixon line, let alone
>>the state boundaries, it is
>>not comprehendable.
>>
>>I love the many small towns
>>like Panguitch. I grew up
>>in an Idaho version of
>>Panguitch. These are amazing places.
>>But if they want to
>>survive, they are going to
>>have to re-define themselves away
>>from what Grandpa did. Because
>>what Grandpa did isn't going
>>to cut it in a
>>global economy. And that doesn't
>>mean that Grandpa isn't awesome
>>or a hard worker or
>>one of the best men
>>you'll ever meet. Just means
>>that if we don't adapt,
>>then someone will have to
>>turn off the lights after
>>Grandpa dies."
>
>You read a lot of neo
>hippie BS propaganda, then you
>read more. Texas is
>sending empty flatbeds into Utah
>with no contracts to buy
>hay because their under extreme
>drought. I guess those
>small towns in Montana, Alaska,
>Russia its OK to do
>what grandpa did, but not
>in Panguitch?
>Globalism is pretty successful. We
>should stop ALL our own
>resource development. Then we
>can send more of our
>kids to foreign soil in
>humvees to protect shipping lanes,
>and waterways like we do
>with oil. The answer
>ISN'T make small logging towns,
>coal towns etc into ghost
>towns so that a tiny
>minority can feel like they
>"did something important" and "saved
>the land" from the dumbazz
>backwards hicks that have lived
>there for generations.
>Its not to continue to push
>our "influence" into other tiny
>countries at the point of
>a gun. The reason
>its cheaper to buy Argentinian
>beef and have it shipped
>all the way here, is
>because we allow the goverment
>to be involved in ranching.
> Same with coal, steel,
>etc. The government has
>systematically found a way to
>**** up everything it has
>touched, YET, we are supposed
>to have blind faith that
>they can take care of
>land? Where is that
>working for you?
>As hunters, fishermen, we KNOW that
>when you put a value
>to an animal, you get
>more of those animals.
>Elk, bears, moose, etc have
>thrived because we value them.
> The same is true
>of land. Cutting off
>vast stretches of the American
>west to "save it", makes
>it valueless to the majority
>of westerners. If monument
>designation was such a great
>tool, there would be monuments
>all over the country.
>There aren't. And if
>Utah was a swing state,
>it wouldn't be talked about.
>
>Funny how this land has survived
>since before the white devil
>showed up, YET in 2016
>suddenly its going to be
>"saved".
>"The only thing that stops a
>bad guy with a gun
>is a good guy with
>a gun"
The government has systematically found a way to **** up everything it has touched
YUP!
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