[org.whodat]

That is for sale in lots of places. Go buy it.

[Smokin' Joe]

I'm not asking the government to give it to me. That isn't the problem here. I'm not looking for a handout. But I am looking at places where being within a few miles of Federal Land severely impacts what you can do on your own land. They call that a "Buffer zone".

Now, explain to me again what the Federal Government needs half of the land west of the Mississippi for, and why we are all paying to have them 'administer' it, instead of them selling some of that land off in small parcels to private citizens and retiring some of our debt.

That's a two-fer, removing an ongoing fiscal liability and converting it to cash to pay down the debt.