Posted on 04/25/2014 11:34:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
IMO, it's not a trap, it's quite plainly spoken right here:
If BLM indeed does not intend to claim any land which it does not already administer along the Red River, the answers to these questions should be quite straightforward.
'claim any land which it does not already administer' means he's differentiating between the 'new' claim of the land and the land which they have overseen in the past.
This followed by the demand:
the answers to these questions should be quite straightforward.
Which basically means "Tell me EXACTLY what you're talking about, or shut the Hell up"!
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That's the way I read it, anyway. :-)
The federal government has massive amounts of debt. Much of it could be paid off by permitting oil drilling, fracking and coal mining on these lands, with the lease revenue generating a lot of money.
The government would make a massive amount of money selling a lot of these managed lands to local people. For example, Ted Bundy might buy those acres he’s been grazing. The government gets money from the purchase, and Nevada then gains property taxes on it.
The problem is the government borrowing to lock up land from development and paying to manage it, because it has let the environmentalists take over.
I couldn’t agree with you more. Almost all the comments on Cruz’s facebook page were posted by conservatives who were 100% pi$$ed. I wrote him an email asking him why..and if wanted to lose the next election. I can’t believe how stupid he is to do this....really shows he’s out of touch. He better do what you suggest...and quick. Libs relish this picture.
Thanks for these links. Very interesting, and sheds some light on the issues between the two states, and the Feds.
However, the Feds, and the States, can only make agreements relating to land in the “public domain”. They can not just sign away individual rights that may predate the agreement, unless they go through the process of imminent domain or mutual agreement and compensation.
I should email him too. It’s a small thing but could be blown up big. It would be even better if he’d go to a big cat sanctuary and get a great photo with him petting a tiger. Then if he’s attacked, he could counter attack with “lobs never let anything go” (which is true!) and his sort of manly persona would go well with petting or hugging a tiger. But these days you have to be VERY media savvy.
Awesome graphic Windflier! Thanks for the ping!
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