Lease Golden Gate Park for $3,500 a Month

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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