Posted on 01/12/2016 6:06:16 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Trump says Americans shouldn't let the government turn the West into a federally-owned frontier. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Forget China, guns or immigration. Donald Trump is taking on a new issue: federal land ownership.
In a new op-ed for the Reno Gazette-Journal, the Republican presidential front-runner rails against the "draconian rule" of the Bureau of Land Management and the Obama administration's "land grab" in the western United States.
"The BLM controls over 85 percent of the land in Nevada," Trump explains. "In the rural areas, those who for decades have had access to public lands for ranching, mining, logging and energy development are forced to deal with arbitrary and capricious rules that are influenced by special interests that profit from the D.C. rule-making and who fill the campaign coffers of Washington politicians."
On Thursday, Trump told the New York Times he would end an ongoing dispute between Oregon ranchers and federal officials, that's culminated with a group of armed protesters staging an ongoing occupation of a federal wildlife refuge, with a "phone call."
"You cannot let people take over federal property," Trump told the Times.
Now, Trump says Americans shouldn't let the government turn the West into a federally-owned frontier.
"Honest, hardworking citizens who seek freedom and economic independence must beg for deference from a federal government that is more intent on power and control than it is in serving the citizens of the nation," Trump writes in his RGJ op-ed.
Trump, a billionaire real estate developer, pushes the conservative argument that because the government owns millions of acres of land, specifically in Nevada, "the cost of land has skyrocketed and the cost of living has become an impediment to growth."
"Where are the city and county to get the land for schools, roads, parks and other public use areas if they have to beg Washington for the land and then pay a premium price for it? How are people who see a future in Nevada to find housing and employment if the federal government is inhibiting economic development?" he writes.
According to Trump, who's second in the Washington Examiner's presidential power rankings, the only way to solve the issues sparked by federal land ownership "is to bring to Washington a president who will rein in the federal government and get Congress to do its job."
"What is needed in Washington is a president who has the will, strength and courage to lead," he writes, adding, "When I am elected president, I will bring the executive branch back inside the Constitution and will work with Congress to put America first."
Boom goes the dynamite...
I’m surprised Trump beats almost everyone on most issues. Trump is a leader. The rest are just playing the game and trying too hard not to make mistakes.
The commies are intent on blocking use of the land for profit to keep the serfs broke. The connected, meaning Mafia types, like Reid can use the land the Feds steal to make tons of money. It is not surprising to me as I saw this illegal taking in 1970. The Feds and other governments are corrupt to the core.
Get the budget to balance, sell assets to pay off the debt.
I think somebody has talked with Trump and splained exactly what is going on out there. I posted on his FB page the other day to put pardoning the Hammonds on his list of things to do.
I think somebody has talked with Trump and splained exactly what is going on out there. I posted on his FB page the other day to put pardoning the Hammonds on his list of things to do.
I think somebody has talked with Trump and splained exactly what is going on out there. I posted on his FB page the other day to put pardoning the Hammonds on his list of things to do.
Rumor was a week ago that a Trump associate had gone to Haney County to assess the situation.
The Feds are not supposed to have all that land in the first place. The Constitution is pretty clear about it. You can thank Teddy Roosevelt for starting the land grabs.
You do know Trump supports Kelo don’t you?
So tell me what is the difference between Harry Reid making money off of someone’s land and Trump making money off of someone’s land he had the govt force them to sell to him?
Yet oddly enough, once Trump makes an issue of something, it invariably explodes into the realm of public discussion. Just ask Winnipeg Ted.
I don’t care what he once said about Kelo, if Trump gets this issue out into the public consciousness, more power to him.
Ping.
But the Trumpsters will still claim it was Trump’s idea first.
This is nothing more than Trump doing a CYA because he supports Kelo.
Time to get The Donald on top of the whole Agenda 21 thing.
Patriots don’t support Kelo.
It is a way to control us and to tax us to take care of what they should not have in the first place. the land belongs to the states.
This is a very potent issue out west. The more than a hundred years of federal land grabs has become a pestilence.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Map_of_all_U.S._Federal_Land.jpg
On the plus side, if a president could restore a lot of this land to the states, it would throw a monkey wrench into the UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 schemes.
According to Trump and his support of Kelo, the land belongs to whoever has enough money to take it from the rightful owner.
Baloney! Amazing how you Cruzers zero in on one incident and the world falls on that one thing. How about the number of times Cruz has voted to strip America of her Sovereignty? Doesn’t count, huh?
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