[Torie]

Do you really think selling off "unneeded" government land would balance the books on this issue? What land do you have in mind?

[rb22982]

The federal government owns trillions of dollars worth of assets it doesn't need and shouldn't have. These include power companies, pipelines, idle military bases, business enterprises, over 400,000 buildings, oil and mineral rights, commodity reserves, and much more — including 29% of all the land in the United States. Estimates of the assets' market value have ranged from $5 trillion to $50 trillion.