Senate selling off public lands

[Toni]

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According to a budget blueprint released Wednesday evening by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the federal government would be required to sell off between 2.2 and 3.3 million acres of land owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service over the next five years.

The proposal stipulates that the sold land will have to be used to develop housing or “community development needs,” which it said could be defined by the secretaries of the Interior or Agriculture departments. The 11 states that would be affected by the proposal are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Apparently the land would be required to be used to build housing and meet other public needs.

Who else is convinced that parts would be open to mining and other parts would be used to build luxury homes for those who are losing their beach houses to rising seas. And of course more appropriate housing for those who are there to provide necessary services to the Uber wealthy.

 

[southernhybrid]

Didn't the felon say a couple of months ago that he was going to use land like National parks etc for drilling and mining? Nothing they do would surprise me at this point.

 

[Toni]

Didn't the felon say a couple of months ago that he was going to use land like National parks etc for drilling and mining? Nothing they do would surprise me at this point.

Yep and the Senate is willing to grant his every wish. In my state, there have long been efforts to mine in a very sensitive environmental area, most recently by a foreign financial that has an abysmal environmental record. Fortunately my state has kept them out but Trump of course is all for selling us out against our will.

 

[southernhybrid]

Didn't the felon say a couple of months ago that he was going to use land like National parks etc for drilling and mining? Nothing they do would surprise me at this point.

Yep and the Senate is willing to grant his every wish. In my state, there have long been efforts to mine in a very sensitive environmental area, most recently by a foreign financial that has an abysmal environmental record. Fortunately my state has kept them out but Trump of course is all for selling us out against our will.

I know what you mean. This disgusting felon doesn't care what he does to destroy the environment along with putting more precious wildlife in danger by destroying what's left of their habitats, taking away nature parks for citizens to enjoy etc. It's sickening and the Republican cult in Congress doesn't have the courage to stand up to their master.

 

[ZiprHead]

There's a good bit of federal land here in Michigan but most of it is in some pretty remote areas. Certainly not suitable for housing.

 

[Gospel]

There's a good bit of federal land here in Michigan but most of it is in some pretty remote areas. Certainly not suitable for housing.

Better keep this quiet, if the Saudi princes find out, Trump’ll sell it to them by lunchtime and they’ll have Vegas 2.0 up before dinner.