Nations public lands may soon be up for sale

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com

""This land is your land. This land is my land."

There are a few common, uniting elements in our national life—the mortar binding our considerable diversities. Among the most important are: our currency—the dollar; our language—English; and our mutual ownership of the natural resource—public land. Those binding components have, perhaps more than any others, given meaning to the word united in the term United States and made whole the phrase “E Pluribus Unum.” We must neither underestimate nor misunderstand the essentialness of these simple common bonds in our American society with all its dissonance, racial, ethnic and economic conflicts.

That each of us individually have a claim to ownership of the publicly-held national land base is of intrinsic importance to our being Americans—genuine stakeholders in our magnificent landscape. To tinker with that bond is to gamble with our unique national unity.

On our behalf, the United States Congress has reserved the authority to determine the fate of the national landscape. For more than a century and virtually without exception, the Congress has carefully guarded the public’s land base. Very occasionally, following exhaustive review and lengthy public hearings, small land swaps have occurred between the public and a private party. The result was usually the enlargement, not diminishment, of the overall public land base. "

[texpatriot2004]

1. What can we do Montana? nm

[montana500]

3. hi Tex!

Check out this thread for some action info:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5503606&mesg_id=5503606

[DenaliDemocrat]

2. Everyone who hunts, hikes, fishes, rides horses, or x-c skies

needs to be aware that this is going to affect them. Take note, this is a REPUBLICAN sponsored bil. The bastards want to sell your public lands.

[montana500]

4. yep.

That about nails it.

[Jose Diablo]

5. Do you think I could get the deed for a couple miles of an Interstate

Highway, preferably in a high population city.

I could then put-in toll booths with an electronic counters that for a small fee, users could buy a card the counters would read and I would then send a monthly bill, paid in advance naturally, to make using the toll road unobtrusive to prepaid users. Others that used the high speed toll booth that had not prepaid, well in that case there would be camera's to record who they are and you can bet those scofflaws would get a day in court. I figure it as a normal business expense, the cost of lawyers. And the scofflaws would end-up paying for the lawyers too.

Now for those that did not prepay, there is always the slower manned toll booths, using the elderly at the going min rate of pay. Of course, the non-prepaid fares would be higher because my costs would also be higher.

I have just given you a view in the Republican mind in operation.

[kansasblue]

6. I saw an article that said Roosevelt Island, Wash DC could be on the list

[texpatriot2004]

7. kick nm