2-19 SS Tenacity

The need for tenacity.

 I can never stop wondering about the gap between the federal government and states rights. Let me give you an analogy. You have a nosy mother-in-law who consistently insists on judging policy in your home. For example, you are not raising your children correctly.  Your mother-in-law tells you, “If you raised your children correctly, they would not be acting in this way. You absolutely need to change your approach and use good old fashion values, like the way we raised your spouse.”  Here’s the problem. Your mother-in-law isn’t living day-to-day in your house and  does not know the individual specifics of your family’s dynamic. End of story? You would tell her to mind her own business if you had any backbone. 

So it is with the federal government telling individual states how to conduct their affairs. We see it in beef industry with the BLM positioning policy so that the  cattle ranchers won’t be able to graze on public lands. In the same vein, let us re-visit the wolf issue. Individual states see decimated populations of ungulates which  impacts the purchase of hunting licenses,  hunting being a multibillion dollar industry. Well the Governor of Idaho, Butch Otter, took a stand against the federal government’s reintroduce wolves policy.” I could have walked away from the table and said okay, put your plan in and we would have 5000 or 6000 wolves in Idaho by now. But we don’t and it is because of tenacity. This is a lesson learned.