Posted on 02/19/2016 1:04:30 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Anything else simply invites favoritism and fraud. Exactly what do you have against Capitalism and preventing fraud? Would you prefer the EPA choosing who gets what, and at what price? SMH
Rock on, Ted!
Natelson says:
http://constitution.i2i.org/2016/02/
But within state boundaries the Constitution grants no authority to retain acreage for unenumerated purposes, such as land for grazing, mineral development, agriculture, forests, or parks.
* Once a state is created and is thereby no longer a territory, the federal government has a duty to dispose of tracts not used for enumerated purposes.
* In the process of disposal, the federal government must follow the rules of public trust. It would be a breach of fiduciary duty for the feds to simply grant all of its surplus property to state governments. Each tract must be disposed of in accordance with the best interest of the American people. For example, natural wonders and environmentally sensitive areas (such as those now encompassed by the national parks) might be conveyed under strict conditions to state park authorities or (as in Britain) to perpetual environmental trusts. Land useful only for grazing, mining, or agriculture should be sold or homesteaded, with or without restrictions. The restrictions might include environmental protections, public easements, and protection for hunters and anglers
The federal government has NO right to own these lands. The feds may BUY land for “needful” buildings, with state permission, but their wholesale taking of most of the land in the West is just plain wrong.
Look into some of the incredible abuses that prompted the armed standoff in Oregon. The feds have been playing very dirty with “our” land.
Difference is that there is already a bill passed for a wall to be built.
Trump can just enforce it.
And the states can do that - they are better conservators and guardians - and they can use money from the parks for their citizens (since it’s their land) and make decisions about sale or lease.
And this would through a wrench into the idea that the Feds can lock up land.
Compared to the great many political promises that Trump has delivered on...
Hint: The entire conservative movement ha been a dismal failure in delivering anything that we want. I guess you're all for abandoning the entire movement then... as clearly demonstrated by the support for Trump.
Won’t be the first impact area that gets cleaned up.
Cruz is great at promising things. However, when it comes to actually delivering something he is a complete failure
Where is the law suit Trump promised if Cruz didn’t pull his ad?
Trump is all talk
Yet another parallel with a fledgling senator from the same Uniparty—like Obama, using the senate as a stepping stone.
Elected in 2013, Cruz really hasn’t done much but campaign and grandstand, again, like Obama filibustering conservative judges, making a name for himself, duping the desperate, and now this extravagant promise from Rafael “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Cruz.
I don’t know, but strongly suspect one of Trump’s favorite sayings may be, “Money talks, BS walks.”
I’m going with someone who can actually deliver on his proposals: Donald Trump.
We’ve suffered for seven years with a `wunderkind’ who promised to lower the Earth’s ocean levels and temperature, and other fantastic bullshit, when in fact his real goal was simply to win the WH, then golf-around-the-clock while rubber-stamping destruction of the country vis a vis his stooges and his feckless disengagement from leading.
We can’t go on like this. It’s time to put a grown up behind the wheel.
There goes plans for my lakeside retreat...
Senators are all talk. By definition.
Aint the federal governments in the first place.
That land is held and managed under a trust.
BTW, quite a lot of that land in southern NV/UT and N AZ is contaminated from the NV test site.
The cast and crew of the movie about the mongols staring John Wayne? 90% died of cancer. They filmed near St George UT.
I don’t know .... It’s not an issue I’ve seen him address. Has he addressed it?
Why he'll do it the same way Trump will bill the wall and send all the illegals home and everything else he promises? What Truthful Trump wouldn't make promises he can't keep he's not a, no that's not right, he used to not be a politician. I know we don't question Trump because he says we should just trust him, he has a plan.
I’m trying to remember Teddy saying any of this at the debates.
“Like how is he going to do that anyway?”
Defund BLM to start. If the traitorous Congress won’t defund BLM, President Cruz can order BLM to knit socks and not interfere with the states taking control of BLM land.
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