Calling for Donors!
Give what you can
Or donate monthly, and a sponsoring FReeper will contribute $10
Lazamataz is our best friend!
Posted on 05/10/2011 9:16:35 AM PDT by 92nina
...The White house has created an interactive map that highlights over 7,000 of the underused properties the U.S. government owns. You can view it by state and see how many properties the government owns along with the type of structure it is, the name of the structure, the use of the building, and the size of it. In the District of Columbia, it lists 5 properties as being unused and in the state of California a staggering 1,151 properties are listed.
The White House defines excess properties to be an assortment of things, ranging from office buildings to labs to storage sheds and warehouses. It is basically what is deemed by an agency as no longer needed for mission or program performance. Once they are categorized as “excess,” these buildings can be offered up to other federal agencies or just abandoned.
The federal government owns about 30 percent of all U.S. land, which accounts for more than 650,000,000 acres. Most of this land is deteriorating or in complete disarray due to lack of maintenance. The land needs to be sold off as quickly as possible because when it is owned by the government it limits the access for recreation, mineral exploration, farming, and a lot more traditional uses...
(Excerpt) Read more at propertyrightsalliance.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
Hell the way our laws, taxes, and everything else are set up if the land was sold to developers tomorrow they probably wouldn’t be able to utilize an acre of that land for years if ever. The way the government is going we’d be better selling it off to the chinese as loan repayment at least the land would be productive.
We had a revolution to give power to the people, not the government. Maybe someone should tell the government.
Heh, I bet the manufacturers of blue helmets donated big to Obama’s campaign! </snark>
I have an idea.
Properties that are “partially used” should have those operations (if not eliminated entirely, now I’m fantasizing) moved to more appropriate locations, or consoldiated to another nearby partly used building.
The remaining unused should be sold. Real estate’s in the tank anyway, so why not sell cheap to a small business owner or a business looking to expand?
I like the idea, but I suspect a whole lot of Democrat operatives would be first in line to buy the cheap land. It's how things work.
What a great way to cut down the deficit. We can sell the land to individuals or companies and take the money and put it towards the 15 trillion. I wonder how much we could be down to if we seriously did this. For a government full of people who want to spend money, they don’t seem to know how to make that happen. Pay down the debt and then you can spend reasonably. These folks in the government (politicians) are so stupid.
The problem is the 70% they don't own. Once they overcome that issue then we'll have Utopia.
The problem is the 70% they don't own. Once they overcome that issue then we'll have Utopia.
They already control most of the mortgages through Fannie and Freddie. Have you noticed the foreclosure rates lately?
Most of the National Forests are overgrown and have thousands of beetle killed trees. Nothing is done to allow clearing out the dead timber, they won’t even allow people to cut a few little Christmas Trees without a “permit”, much less allow people to take the dead timber for firewood. The Forest Service is a joke, they are the ones that caused the great fire in Pike National Forest in Colorado. These people are out of control and should be fired. Ken Salazar has caused more damage to our Western Forests and parks than people have ever seen.
Garbage In, Garbage Out.
I'm pretty familiar with the properties in New Jersey on this list, they include flood control dams, road medians and road side ditches/greenways and small bridges in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Also includes old properties that were donated to or bought by the Park Service to backfill the Delaware National Recreation Area. The only reason they were not folded into the Park property is due to archaic Federal tax and state property records and zoning laws. How exactly would those be considered unused properties?
At a minimum, a full 120 of the the 208 properties in New Jersey are misrepresented.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.