[Future Useless Eater]

The U.S. also owns an ENORMOUS amount of real estate PROPERTY!

The feds should AUCTION off MOST unnecessary property before attempting to RAISE the DEBT LIMIT.

[LibLieSlayer]

I agree... sell off all of the State lands that they stole... wait... maybe they should just give back what they stole in the first place.

LLS

[Dick Bachert]

Roger that. I’m sure it’s larger now, but about 15 years ago, fedzilla owned as much property as there was land east of the Mississippi.

So much for “to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;”

We need to elect folks who didn’t major major in “Torturing the Language” in college.

[dusttoyou]

No way they’ll sell off land. This Debt Limit thingy is just so much theater for the masses.

[Cobra64]

The feds should AUCTION off MOST unnecessary property before attempting to RAISE the DEBT LIMIT.

That is a fiscally irresponsible solution to the immediate problem. The problem is spending.

The Feds owned no property when this America was founded. Therefore it is not the federal government's property to sell.

This property should be turned back over to the States.

Furthermore, what do you propose we do 10 years from now when we are in the same situation we are in today?

(See my tag line)

[Carry_Okie]

Too late. Federal Lands were put up as collateral in the '70s. We're all that's left. Hmmm... sounds familiar.

Genesis 47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. 16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed [3] them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22 Only the land of the priests [4] bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

[patriciaruth]

The feds should AUCTION off MOST unnecessary property before attempting to RAISE the DEBT LIMIT.

Isn't there enough devaluation of property equity going on now without the feds accelerating it by dumping a lot of property on the market?

The developers aren't building much now, so they aren't going to pay much if anything for U.S. property.

[Centurion2000]

Congratulations, you’ve just come up with the strategy to repeat the oligarchs of Russia picking up VAST national resources for pennies on the dollar.

The federal government’s lands ultimately belong to the states.