[Sopater]

The Federal Government is becoming the majority stock holder in the states.

[Truth29]

Obama view: 2/3 to go.

[cranked]

I would argue that it is more than a third....
http://standeyo.com/NEWS/10_USA/10_USA_pics/100528.federal.land.jpg

[cripplecreek]

And the states are grabbing up the rest of it.

[montanajoe]

“A protracted, ugly legal battle appears inevitable”

These states should not bother wasting taxpayer dollars on lawsuits..the Roberts court will uphold the Feds...

[SkyDancer]

IOW - the people. Who specifically in the federal government owns anything?

[wastedyears]

I think one argument to be perpetuated will be that the states won’t know what to do with the land, and as such the federal government must maintain control.

[liberalh8ter]

Very ambitious, considering Fedzilla isn’t supposed to own anything.

[thackney]

Utah, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho...

Much of this territory was ceded to the federal government close to the end of the Revolutionary War.

????????

Someone has got their years wrong.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That land rightfully belongs to the United Nations.

I wish I was being sarcastic.

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[Jacquerie]

Don't worry. The feds will eventually sell, and sell at fire sale prices when TSHTF. Greece is selling islands and an Uncle Barak Jr will someday be forced to do the same. Just expect buyers such as Soros to be tough negotiators.

[jdsteel]

That real estate is worth a lot. Sell it (over time, at a good price, on the market) with 100% going to debt reduction.

[crusty old prospector]

I want my twenty acres and a Mule from Obamao's stash.

[justa-hairyape]

The states should start charging the feds property taxes. Actually, make the taxes retroactive to revolutionary times.

[JimRed]

Since this is a “government of the people”, government owned means that we all own it. How dare they try to keep me off of my own land?

[BfloGuy]

But, but doesn't that mean it's the people's land? /sarc>

[Sarajevo]

I’m sure a lot of people would like to see housing developments all over Yellowstone or a business park in the middle of White Sands missile range.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Ivory says that federal control was supposed to be merely temporary. “It was a solemn agreement that was supposed to be performed in a timely manner,” he said. But Congress had other ideas. In 1976, it passed a law directing the Bureau of Land Management to hold land “in perpetuity,” rather than systematically disposing of it.

I'm certain this will come as a "SHOCK" to y'all:

94th Congress in 1976:

Senate President: Nelson Rockefeller

Senate Pres. pro tem: James Eastland

House Speaker: Carl Albert

Senate Majority: Democratic Party

House Majority: Democratic Party

ADD to that the fact that we had as our President one of the BIGGEST, WUSS, RINO's EVER, Gerald Ford (AND HE WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY HAVING LEFT THE REPUBLIC PARTY...FOREVER WHEN HE SAT BACK AND ALLOWED OUR ALLIES S. VIETNAM BE CONQUERED BY THE NORTH)and now we know how that "Bill" was able to become law.

[KrisKrinkle]

“One Third of all Land in the United States Owned by the Federal Government”

Proof or it ain’t true.

[dfwgator]

“Land....land.....Land, see Snatch.”