I remember seeing a story about a guy who was finding dinosaur bones. He was eventually charged with felonies.
The assumption is that the government owns everything. Touching anything is a crime.
I think we need to shut down some of these agencies altogether.
Now, they wonder why so many people are choosing to take up 'grievance studies'...
Well, duh.
You get fined for finding a fossil, but if you pick up a new gripe you get a grant.
I have 32 mostly unused acres in central, rural KY. The house we live in was built about five years ago and other than an old barn on the road it’s been farm land.
So I bought a metal detector about six months ago and just started using it last weekend. I actually found some stuff but the only bullet I found was a mushroomed 30-06 round.
But I joke that if I find any confederate gold, it’s getting melted down immediately and sold peacemeal. But if such a thing were to actually happen, you bet I’d melt it down. And I would not tell a soul what I found.
Shutting down the federal access and perceived ownership of public and state lands is goal number one. Chasing the Feds out of individual states might also be an option should they choose to be adversarial rather than the public servants they are.
There are 21 million Federal & State employees. They are all overpaid and all are looking for a little more authority.
We’ve got to stop this nonsense. 7% of this country works for the Government. The average Federal employee makes over $80,000 a year plus very generous benefits which push that to about $120,000 per year. The 7% is misleading in that there are only about 104 million non government workers, which makes the government the employer of every 5th worker. The average pay of non government workers is about $54,000 a year. Non government workers are paying taxes to pay people 75% more than they earn. This cannot continue.