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To: B4Ranch; *landgrab; *Green; *Enviralists; farmfriend; marsh2; dixiechick2000; Mama_Bear; poet; ...
Environmentalists said opponents of the Everglades project are part of a small minority generally made up of extremists. They said the government intends to buy out any farms that would be flooded.

The result is farmers going out of business, and the willing sellers the government is looking for are folks who have no choice but to sell at a fraction of their original land value.
"Our land went from $300 to $400 an assessed acre to $28 an acre," Ransom said, pointing out pictures of farms where fields that usually grow crops held nothing but sand and dust. "This is a disaster that never had to happen," Ransom said, ... (see this post for info.)
Land is only worth whatever you can grow on it; cattle, crops, developments, or wildlands. There is necessity for each, but taking productive farmland out of the hands of the true conservationists and placing it in the hands of the watermelon enviralists is slowly strangling our society and will lead to the ruination of our civilization.

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Property and the inherent rights that go with
it are the foundation of Freedom; without them
and all they encompass you have not freedom
but slavery on bended knee to whatever the
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8 posted on 10/02/2002 5:38:39 AM PDT by brityank
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To: brityank
Your posts on this have been very eloquent. Thanks for taking an interest in people who need all the help they can get. God blesses such people.
9 posted on 10/02/2002 5:55:51 AM PDT by AAABEST
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Property Rights...Bump !!

The RATS are in disarray...eradicate the rodents !!

Fire Democrats, Hire Republicans !!

GWB Is The Man !!

Snuff Saddam, NOW !!

Death To all Tyrant's !!

The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

18 posted on 10/02/2002 9:28:51 AM PDT by blackie
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