Posted on 06/27/2025 7:04:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Sounds like they were speaking to you, not for you.
(And I agree with them.)
So you support the selling off of these lands to corporations to do with it what they please?
Yeah, everybody. It's just some high-growth potential land that our masters at Blackrock want. If we don't transfer it to them now, some laboring American families might get it later!
I prefer to keep wild lands open. We don’t need every inch of habitat sold to corporate interests to ruin, pave, and/or fill with foreigners. This isn’t the Homestead Act.
Cabela’s business depends in part on selling sporting goods to recreational users of public lands and waterways. I disfavor corporations getting into political advocacy unrelated to their operations. In this case, Cabela’s has a legitimate interest in the issue. Not sure why it bothers you so much.
If I recall correctly, Lee is also one of the major proponents of the H1B Program, and pushed a huge increase in the numbers of foreign workers brought into the US.
Either the federal government should long-term lease the land, sell some of the land or operate the land as a private landowner. Too much federal land in an area stifles economic growth. It makes privately owned land too expensive for the middle class to purchase. It increases the chance of wildfires because the government does not harvest trees or even clean up dead trees. The federal government does not agressively clean up and replant burned areas. It sounds great to have land protected from development, but in my area it is always the federal forests that spread wildfire and endanger whole communities. I am sick of their mismanagement or what can better be called no mamagement of the land.
Sales of lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains is largely responsible for paying off our enormous Revolutionary War debt.
If Congress got a hold (yeah, I know) on spending, western land sales to pay our current enormous debt would be worth looking into.
It really looks to me like we are headed for a civil war because of all of the deep, vicious divisions and disagreements over everything. If and when that happens, I will tell people at the appropriate time WHY so many things bothered me. At that time, they will not be able to do anything about it. It is coming down to fact that the element of surprise is all that matters now.
It is NOT what you don't know that will get you in trouble/hurt/etc./ad nauseum, it's what you know that AIN'T so. Have at it.
Like.
Yup, the elite would buy it for themselves and it would be lost to public use forever. And the best spots at that.
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