Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadre.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!idis!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Social Security Message-ID: <157@cadre.ARPA> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 11:28:36 EST Article-I.D.: cadre.157 Posted: Sun Jan 13 11:28:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:30:42 EST References: <222@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> <3244@alice.UUCP> <496@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Reply-To: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks) Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh. Lines: 26 Summary: >> The whole thing would be financed by selling off all the land >> that the Federal Government owns and has not developed. >> It turns out that the two numbers just about match. > >Sell undeveloped Federal lands? You must be joking! I like the idea that >some of this country is held in trust, that we don't have unfettered >"development" of the continent. I like wild areas. You sell off all the >land, and you're going to wind up with even more snowmobile parks and >K-Marts. > > SPECIAL OFFER:: OWN A PIECE OF THE GRAND CANYON! > >I've heard a lot of hare-brained nonsense on this network, but this idea is >just such a piece of horse pucky I can't believe it. Well, I wouldn't support selling the Grand Canyon, but maybe a lot of people don't realize that the federal government (bureau of land management) owns about 80% of some states like Nevada, New Mexico, etc. Most of this isn't forest, recreational area, etc. Just a lot of land that fat-cat ranchers lease at bargain-basement prices to run their cattle and sheep on. Why should the government own all of it? Let the ranchers buy it (at market rates) instead of using it almost free forever.