Is anyone else bothered by this? (Oil and minerals related).

[peacetalksforall]

We pay for space exploration.
Photographic technology keeps improving.
Photographs find potential mining riches.
Photographs owned by us, but we're not in on what happens.
Corporations and investors have access to all the riches by knowledge gained and secret manipulation with the help of our leaders.
Leaders want to sell our national lands and parks.
Privatized/sold out from under us and turned over to corporations.

True or false?
Bothered or not?

If true, how many ways are we being screwed?
If true, are Republican nature lovers happy?
If true, are ordinary Republican conservatives disturbed?

[enigma000]

1. Leaders want to sell our national lands and parks.

Can they do that? Oil drilling, sure, that's one thing. But selling a national park?

[BeFree]

2. They want to

And if they could, they sure would. They eyeball those last pristine pieces with an evil eye, and hate the fact that such preciuos places have to be shared with everyone.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Yes - do a search. Bush has already proposed it and I believe it has

happened already in some places.

[enigma000]

4. I did not know that n/t