[Toddsterpatriot]

For bald-faced smoke and mirrors treatment of the manner in which they are ratified (of which your posts are but a shallow imitation),

That's pretty funny!! For some more laughs, why don't you explain again how US Treasury Bills are backed by water and mineral rights?

[SierraWasp]

No! No! Noooooooooooooooo!!! You're thinking of Fannie Mays, not T-Bills!!! They are backed by the full faith and credit of Jamie Gorelicker!!!

[Carry_Okie]

That's pretty funny!! For some more laughs, why don't you explain again how US Treasury Bills are backed by water and mineral rights?

Wayne Hage went to his deathbed with that knowledge. His mastery of that subject is one reason why he won on his regulatory takings case in the US Court of Claims.

Go ahead, find me a substantial American-owned hard rock mining company operating in the American West. Just keep yucking it up while China drills of our coast while American companies can't. That deal isn't on paper either. Just keep laughing while Vivendi buys up water companies in California, while having curiously little difficulty getting permits.

Meanwhile, try, just for once, defending your bald faced and ignorant assertion with an example.