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Originally Posted by crockett
see what coal strip mining and what private industry has done to unprotected land in this country.
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Isn't strip mining already forbidden? So that won't happen again.
Don't you think it's kind of fucked up that the Feds own 28% of all the land here in the U.S.?
I do.
It wasn't supposed to be like this.
"The Great Experiment" that our founding fathers created wasn't supposed to have a central govt. this powerful and rich.
Think about it for a second. It's not much different than when Kings owned most of the land.
How about GIVING that land back to the American PEOPLE. We could start with reparations. "40 acres and a mule" was promised but never delivered. How about that?
40 acres of land for every black family in America.
I'm for it. It wouldn't "cost" the govt. anything (though they would try to say it did by estimating the value of all that land.), and it would put some real wealth in the hands of black folks and put an end to this culture war.
Think about it Crockett...why on Earth do a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington D.C. get to have all that land and "we the people" do not?
EDIT: Found the link on strip mining:
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Looks like it can still be done? But the EPA stands over the whole thing watching it and keeping it under control?