[wattsmag2]

When one looks up Crockett's term, oddly, the thing he is most remembered for is advocating free land for squatters, i.e., the government giving land to Tennesseans.

You mean the government offering land to those willing to risk their lives and fortunes if they would just help the US settle new territories? Do you think of this as a giveaway? Do you think all the people who settled land in the land rushes were given something akin to welfare? What a crock.

[Walt Griffith]

The government still should not own any land!!!

[Huck]

You mean the government offering land to those willing to risk their lives and fortunes if they would just help the US settle new territories? Do you think of this as a giveaway?

I think of giving away land as a giveaway. Yes.