It’s the government’s fault because they haven’t regulated the packer
It’s the governments fault because they over-regulated me
It’s the corn market creating this corn to cattle spread
It’s my neighbor’s fault because he charged me too much for the hay, I bought from him
It’s China’s fault because they aren’t keeping up their end of the trade agreement
It’s the stockyard’s fault because they sold my calves late in the day’ (end of paraphrasing)
Some people can do this all day long. Jim goes on in that speech to point out that by the time we blame everything we have and declare it’s no good we have nothing left.