Daddy is coming home soon. And he is NOT AMUSED.
This is *our* land, not yours, you crypto-fascist impostors.
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Posted on 05/27/2010 9:59:38 AM PDT by Nachum
A leaked partial document produced by the Bureau of Land Management and obtained by Fox News suggests the Obama administration is considering a plan to lock up 13 million acres of land -- and the Department of Interior is refusing to answer questions.
First, a little background: The federal government owns about one-third of the land in the United States -- most of it in western states. For example, 84 percent of Nevada is owned by Uncle Sam.
But the government leases large parcels of federal land for all sorts of things -- grazing, mining, exploration, recreation.
Those commercial activities create jobs and tax revenue for the states. Tax revenues from commercial activity on federal lands often pays for local schools. However, with the single stroke of his pen, President Obama can use the Antiquities of Act of 1906 to turn federal land into National Monuments.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The list, ping
looking at these threads today, it is clear Obama is moving at breakneck speed to complete the takeover before November
It really was from day one.
The land should belong to the state in which it is located. Not the federal government!
Maybe they are “locking up” this land to create construction jobs for the building of re-education camps for the TEA partiers?
need to stop it
That land - and its resources - have already been pledged to China as collateral for our Treasury debt. No other way to keep them buying it.
Communists want to restrict freedom of movement, take all personal property, and make you come to them for every need. They want to box us in. Forever.
In fact, I think all that land the federal government holds might be part of the ticket out of their unfunded retirement liabilities. Since they're going to run out of money for all the SS funds because they wasted it in a Ponzi scheme, how about compensating with handing out that land to retiring people in lieu of some of the cash? I'd take some decent land if I could grow a garden on it and it wasn't more than 45 mins from a passable sized town...I know they hold tons of land I'd be happy with.
The U.S. Constitution addresses the relationship of the federal government to
lands. Article IV, § 3, Clause 2 — the Property Clause — gives Congress authority
over federal property generally, and the Supreme Court has described Congress’s
power to legislate under this Clause as “without limitation.”
“how about compensating with handing out that land to retiring people in lieu of some of the cash?”
uh, no. More likely go to the Chinese when we default and have nothing else of worth to give them.
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Yup...but it doesn't address the fact that the federal government has no constitutional authority to hold the vast tracts of land they do. Those should either be sold to reduce the debt (and ONLY the debt...no spending), or they should be given out to willing recipients in lieu of the federal government defaulting on SS benefits already paid to the gov't.
Got some bad news for you. This land will soon be sold to China. <end sarcasm
That passage says...
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations...
I understand you're saying that the SCOTUS has interpreted this to be unlimited control, but from reading the text, that seems to be another example of a "penumbra". Disposing is not holding onto...nor is making rules and regulations the same has holding land. I am not convinced that the constitution really gives authority of the federal government to hold land for any length of time. But I realize that the US is no longer a nation built upon the constitution...it's built upon a perversion of the constitution and moving away from even that.
I only got a glimpse of a report on Fox, but I “think” they reported that a much larger figure of 60 million.
Daddy is coming home soon. And he is NOT AMUSED.
This is *our* land, not yours, you crypto-fascist impostors.
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