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Originally Posted by crockett
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ement-chaffetz
This is what Republicans do for the people. They sell off our land for pennies and the tax payer gets shit.. 3.3 million acres of BLM land will be sold.
This is land that serves a lot of purposes. It's used by hunters, fishermen, campers, hikers and various outdoor uses some is leased for oil /gas drilling. Not to mention these large tracks of land are safe havens for endless amounts of wildlife.
?Last I checked, hunters and fishermen were taxpayers,? said Amaro, who lives in a New Mexico county where 70,000 acres of federal lands are singled out. In total, his state, which sees $650m in economic activity from hunting and fishing, stands to lose 800,000 acres of BLM land, or more than the state of Rhode Island.
?That word ?disposal? is scary. It?s not ?disposable? for an outdoorsman,? he said.
Republicans just want to gut the entire country so their big business benefactors can save a few tax dollars. We need to take some of them and drop them in the middle of that 800k acres and let them get lost forever..
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I'm not saying I agree with this sale overall, but I'm curious if you even read this based on how you are presenting it? The report was initiated by the Clinton administration in 1997. Were you up in arms over this back then?
"The acreage identified is drawn from a 1997 survey conducted by the Clinton administration, which sought to identify potential offsets to revive the Florida Everglades after decades of pollution from the sugar cane industry.
The actual language of the 1997 survey, which did not result in land being sold, prefaced its findings with a caution: ?Please note many lands identified appear to have conflicts which may preclude them from being considered for disposal or exchange.?