Phenomenon

The "dumb cowboy" phenomenon rears its head again.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/22/build/business/40-herd.inc">Workshops teach about herd issues</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Cattle producers have experienced strong prices in the last few years due to short beef supplies and strong consumer demand," says Duane Griffith, Montana State University Extension economist. "Now, when the drought may be easing, ranchers are wondering about increasing herd sizes even though there is still uncertainty about future feed resources and whether the drought is really over."<br />n<br />nGriffith said expanding now comes at the cost of paying high prices for breeding animals or forgoing sales of high-priced heifer calves. </blockquote><br />n<br />n[sarcasm]Wow, I didn't know prices were strong, and you mean to tell me it would cost me money to buy cows or that I wouldn't make as much money, in economic terms its called an opportunity cost, if I didn't sell as many heifers? A dumb cowboy like me just wouldn't recognize these facts without a little help from those college educated type people. What would I do without them.[/sarcasm]<br />n<br />nDon't get me wrong, I know these people are trying to help but it always strikes me as a little condescending like us dumb cowboys don't know any better.<br />n<br />n<b>There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm</b>