Today, when the discussion of helping the ranch workers affected by the ranch closures came up, a new question occurred to me; "Why don't people who worked for 30 years have any unemployment benefits?"

The millionaire ranchers themselves gave as little as possible to these ranch workers and part of giving as little as possible included lowering their wages by negotiating housing into the amount.
The crazy thing is that we, the taxpayers, essentially provide that housing since the ranchers pay a criminally low lease rate. Consider that McClure Ranch is the size of Golden Gate Park and is leased out for $3,500 a month. Yes, all of it. That includes the structures on it, some of which are housing structures. The main residence is over 3,000 square feet...that alone would demand a monthly rent of $12,000 in San Francisco.

Now add in the rest of the residences and thousands of acres of land and you begin to understand the absurdity of the finances in Point Reyes.

So, the employees of these ranchers who were enjoying "sweetheart lease deals" still found ways to screw over their employees.
Why haven't I head about severance packages? Where are the rancher-provided 401K plans? Where are the unemployment benefits?

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Dating back to when Point Reyes National Seashore was first proposed the ranchers have claimed that the creation of the park would destroy the local economy and hurt the local food industry. First of all, 50% of Marin County land is used for agriculture, so the peninsula acreage is not necessary. Secondly, the local stores and restaurants are not exclusively selling locally produced food. In fact, it is hard to find anything in the stores that can be confirmed to be directly produced from the agriculture in Point Reyes National Seashore. This video focuses on Inverness Park Market, but the documentation does not stop there.

The two latest short form videos from Skyler Thomas on the Watching Humans YouTube channel directly contradict Kevin Lunny's most recent pile of propaganda.  

While Trump Dump supporters don't care about the truth, history, reality, or democracy, the facts remain that we have the original legislation as well as 'An Administrative History of Point Reyes' to show us the light.  The only question is if we're willing to look.

"My wealthy employer has paid me below minimum wage since 1991, therefore the National Park Service, aka the American taxpayer, now owes me housing."  

Care to listen to the rant instead of read? Click here.

Is this really how Margarito Loza's mind works, or has he been brainwashed by Andrew Giacomini in combination with years of being exposed to the 'victimhood mindset' of the Point Reyes Ranchers?

In a recent article from the Press Democrat one of the ranch employees that Andrew Giacomini talked into being a plaintiff in his case to disrupt the progress toward saving Point Reyes National Seashore spoke of his struggles as a low income worker who now faces the possibility of trying to find new housing.

It's fascinating just how much the people of Point Reyes think they are owed, from the planet-killing multimillionaire ranchers at the top right down to their undocumented labor force at the bottom.  I say fascinated, but not surprising.  We've reached the point in victimhood society that even people who are working illegally in this country are making demands.  It was only a few years ago that these people wanted to hide their faces in fear of deportation and retaliation from the ranchers.  Now, a ranch-family lawyer has convinced them to show their faces and sue the national park with the idea that they are owed housing. 

Let's go step by step though this lunacy:

1. I'd like to know why the ranchers are once again escaping without accountability.  Somehow this lawsuit looks right past the millionaire empire families who, as the plaintiff said himself, have been paying their workers poverty level wages.  Now these ranchers are about to be paid $40,000,000.00 again yet their snubbed employees think the park service should be sued and not their dynastically wealthy former employers.  Nice to know that even the poor and exploited still think the rich need more breaks.  If this is the intelligence level of the American voter we now know how Trump got back in the office.

2. What are some other examples of when a private business shuts down it falls upon the taxpayer to provided homes for those who are about to lose their jobs?  I've lived through multiple layoffs and no one ever offered me housing to assist with the hardships ahead.  Are these particular people owed housing because they were exploited by their employers?  If so, this sends the message that the less successful you are the more you are owed.  Shame on me for getting all those college degrees.  All I really needed to do was help ranchers get rich by being a participant in the cruel treatment of animals and the murder of the planet.  Heck, in addition to ocean side housing in California, let's give these wonderfully poor ranch workers $50,000.00 bonuses for being participants in the destruction of the park all these years.

3. What's Andrew Giacomini's real angle?  The Giacomini Dairy Empire has a bigger story to play in the suspiciousness of Andrew's lawsuit.  Where was he the past thirty years when the poor treatment of these people was going on in Point Reyes?

4. I've personally been done with the human sympathy card for a long time.  We are a species that declares supremacy and superior intelligence when it's convenience then suddenly becomes helpless and stupid when it comes time for pity.  I'd like to know how Mr. Loza wasn't able to devise a better long-term plan for his family in the three plus decades he's been working in Point Reyes.   Doesn't sound superior or intelligent to me.  Or is it because he lived in fear of seeking a better life for himself and his family while being an employee of the Spaeletta Ranch Family?  If it's the latter, once again, perhaps you should be suing the rich people who treated you that way rather than suing the park service. 

5. So this is where we are now...a world where I am harshly criticizing poor people who need housing and a better life.  I guess it's one of the goals of the ranchers...keep us fighting amongst ourselves while the ranchers themselves walk away with millions yet again.

Maybe I'm being harsh.  Or maybe these farm workers should wake up to who the enemy is.
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Many people seem to believe the battle to save the natural beauty of Point Reyes is a battle against the ranchers.  The reality is that the park staff are simply an extension of the ranchers.
One of many disturbing quotes from Melanie Gunn, this one says it all.  This was taken from a multi-hour interview I conducted with her in 2021.  The longer version of her statement was that even if the fence came down and the ranchers were gone they would still kill the elk.
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Bob McClure is Human trash. He faked the shutdown of his dairy 5 years ago in order to evict the exploited workers staying at the ranch. Every publication in Northern California published the story about his dairy shutting down and the sad story of the ranchers who no longer had a home. Yet, McClure Ranch is still operating in the seashore and the Marin ranchers are still asking for more money from taxpayers, including asking taxpayers to house their workers. Funny, Mendoza did this to his employees approximately 20 years earlier as revealed in my interview with one of his ranch hands. A fake ranch shutdown to kick out workers. Mendoza (B Ranch) is still operating, just like McClure is.