Bush calls for sell-off of Western public land

[sasha031]

Washington - President Bush wants to sell more public land across the West to raise money for schools, conservation and deficit reduction.

Bush's proposed 2007 federal budget, sent to Congress on Monday, calls for granting the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management new authority to sell off land. Those agencies together control hundreds of millions of acres in Western states.

Democrats and environmentalists compare the idea to recent proposals by Tom Tancredo and other Republicans in Congress to sell federal land to pay for hurricane relief and invigorate the mining industry.
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_3485264


It's Not Der Leader Land To Sell!

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. This is what it was all about.

Cut taxes for the rich, and sell off public lands.

How much you want to bet that Cheney and all the Bushes plan to live in a country outside of the U.S.A. after all this is done, because I can't imagine them being well received here by Americans, after all the damage they're doing.

[rkc3]

2. I hear France might be interested in buying back the Louisiana Purchase.

[wtmusic]

7. China has first dibs nt

[rkc3]

16. They have dibs on the rest too. Well, except for what the Saudi's

don't already own.

[wtmusic]

21. I'm sure they can work out a deal

Cheap labor for oil? Sounds like a winner to me.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. please oh please oh please?

I could learn French.

[Theres-a]

3. Damn.

Well,I guess it's too much to ask,that we keep some areas clear of developement. The whole country's for sale.Including the elected officials.

[Warpy]

4. Woops! He screwed the pooch this time.

If the Dems would only WAKE UP and realize that this is the type of thing they can use as a wedge issue out west while talking populist economics, the GOP will lose the west completely and quite possibly never get it back.

Dammit. I hate seeing all these golden opportunities squandered by the DLC establishment in the big east coast cities!

[hatrack]

8. He is also going to get FLATTENED by the real estate industry

What could possibly be worse for their collective net worth than millions and millions of federally subsidized acres suddenly coming on the market?

Same thing happened to Whore Crew, V. 1.0 back in the early 1980s when Watt and company proposed the same thing.

[rkc3]

26. See Spiral Hawk below.

IIRC correctly, Watt was laughed out of a meeting because he mentioned Jesus wouldn't come back until all the trees were gone.

This time around, guys like Watt would be applauded.

[liberal N proud]

5. If we sell all the land the what the hell is left to conserve?

Damn Dumb ASS!

[fasttense]

6. I'm sure it is being pushed by a corporate lobbyist who

has a deal already set up to get his hands on taxpayer's lands for practically nothing. More welfare for corporations and less for the American taxpayers. Oh to be a rich neocrazy white man and get a piece of America for nothing.

[wtmusic]

9. they mean: sell-off land to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy

let's call it what it is.

[rodeodance]

10. my gawd. It is the Peoples land and they want to sell it for the war--yes

it is the war money they want need.

[SpiralHawk]

13. "We won't need no stinkin land after the Rapture." - Domionist NeoCONs

"So shut up, sit down, and wait docilely for the next bus to your Freedom Camp."

[ochazuke]

11. Typical. Absolutely typical.

Not the first time it's been proposed, either. I think Reagan did. It's another Grover Norquist dream. It'll never happen. Because...

WE
ARE
AMERICANS

[AndyA]

12. Surely he can't be an American!

Why not sell the Grand Canyon to the Chinese?

Yellowstone National Park to the Russians?

France can buy back Louisiana.

America is becoming the HO and Bush is PIMPING us to the highest bidder!

Shameful - disgraceful - unpatriotic!

[sasha031]

18. if we could get calls into CSpan about this

nobody knows about it....

[The Whiskey Priest]

15. I love it.......

less than 30 days ago Bush came out with some program, think it was increased logging.....it was shot down....what he forgets is that those are all RED states he is pissing off...they dont want federal land sold.

[SoCalDem]

17. Oil sands ..Oil companies get cheap land.... n/t

[lpbk2713]

19. An admission that he's driven the US Treasury into bankruptcy.

It finally has sunk in that he has three more years left in office and he has to have money to run the government until it is someone else's watch. He came up with this idea as a "yard sale" to hold off the inevitable. Naturally BFEE will get a piece of the action. I hope the voting public remembers all the damage this irresponsible asshole has done.

[sasha031]

20. FOLKS KICK THIS....PLEASE

:kick:

[stepnw1f]

22. Bankruptcy... thanks Neo-Cons!

you sick putrid criminals.

[stepnw1f]

23. Bankruptcy... thanks Neo-Cons!

you sick putrid criminals.

[flamingpie2500]

24. So who wants to buy a small isolated tract for $5000 an acre?

Big Oil?
Lumber?
Mining?

What the hell does the National Forest System "need"?


"We have 350,000 acres of small, isolated tracts that are difficult to manage and no longer serve National Forest System needs,"

[Trevelyan]

25. K & R UNBELIEVABLE -- Kos has a diary on cities voting for Impeachment

they link to http://www.ImpeachPac.com for more information...get involved locally and have a sea of cities and states demanding impeachment.

Sensenbrenner and other repukes had a bill 6 months ago linked by TPM Cafe to the government site with a copy that would abolish term limits for Preznit.

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[lpbk2713]

27. Next thing you know they'll be using their new eminent domain laws

to sell off Manhattan, Miami Beach and Las Vegas just for starters.

Hell, they've got three more years to pull of whatever they want to. We all have seen they will do whatever they want to because they know they are accountable to no one.