Political Quotes

“We have had the cattle industry in Wyoming since before Wyoming was a State. We have had some horrible losses before. The original losses were by people from other countries who were raising their cattle in Wyoming. They had enough money to get into business to begin with, and they had enough money to survive. We have now gotten more to the point where they are family businesses, family ranches. The reason this becomes an extreme problem is, for example, this is the third year of drought for us. The program is even set up so if you receive money in 1 year, you cannot receive money in the next year. That will create some problems. But the purpose of the program was not to pay for losses they had but to provide enough feed to keep them in business. With the cattle industry and the sheep industry, if you have breeding stock, and the weather gets really bad--really dry--and you know you are going to be in bad shape, and you sell off your breeding stock, you have just gone out of business.”