Download or read book Cowboy Capitalism Or Welfare Ranching? The Public Lands Grazing Policies of the Bush Administration written by Raymond Wrabley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Bush ran for president as an advocate of a "cowboy capitalist" ideology of low taxes, deregulation, free markets, and free trade. The ranching industry that produced the cowboy, however, has long had a heavy dose of government planning and welfare state subsidies, especially in public lands grazing. This article examines the Bush Administration public lands grazing record to answer the question: when cowboy capitalist ideology met the welfare ranching reality, how did each fare?