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To: billbears
Your car is yours, it's YOUR responsibility. The land belongs to ALL of us, at least that portion we've put aside for future generations. If we don't maintain it properly, we end up with wild, raging forest fires that rob people of their personal property, property they bought and paid for with their hard earned cash.

Sounds like you're one of those "free spirits" who believe everything should be free. Well, it doesn't work that way. Anything worth having is worth working for, that includes the vast expanses of this country that WE are responsible for. That's why we have to have fire roads, we have to allow proper thinning of the forests, and we have to return to allowing grazing rights since that clears the underbrush.

Too bad about your car, you really should take better care of things, but then, it's yours to do with as you please. You can even go around looking like a pig because you haven't bothered to maintain the paint job.

26 posted on 08/16/2003 7:52:21 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: McGavin999
The land belongs to ALL of us, at least that portion we've put aside for future generations

Well I don't think Mr. Jones down the street is going to be happy when I set up shop on his land (it'll probably be annexed by the national government sooner or later anyway), but I'll just tell him McGavin999 said it's alright....

Look, I do not think I should have to pay for what's done out in Colorado or Wyoming. Let the people of Colorado or Wyoming pay for it through their state legislature. But the amount of land that has been 'set aside' by the federal government for 'future generations' is getting to be obscene. And I don't think someone in the Southeast should be paying for the upkeep of land in the far west. Sorry you have a problem with that, but it's not the business of the national government

Too bad about your car, you really should take better care of things, but then, it's yours to do with as you please. You can even go around looking like a pig because you haven't bothered to maintain the paint job.

Wow, thanks for assuming I'm a pig. It's a r-e-s-t-o-r-a-t-i-o-n project, not a piece of junk. And I would probably be a lot further down the road on finishing it if so much of my money was not stolen out of my pocket from the national government to pay for tree care in Nebraska or AIDS in Africa

28 posted on 08/16/2003 8:59:17 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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