Thursday, June 26, 2025

Land grab? Maybe that has already happened

Here's a long essay on a subject that interests me somewhat, but that I don't know enough about in order to make a reasoned opinion at this time.

 

It is about public land sales in the West.


Texas was mentioned, and I can discuss a bit about that. When Texas entered the union, it retained control over its public lands. This is not the case for many states out West. Consequently, the Federal government controls the lands out west. Therefore, the issue has been raised in the recent budget talks as a means to solve a few problems with the sale of these public lands.


In addition, there may have been some mention ( not in this essay, but I did not finish reading it ), of the MINERAL RIGHTS in these lands. The MINERAL RIGHTS can be very valuable.


Locking up these MINERAL RIGHTS may not be such a good idea. That is where I'll throw my two cents in.


Lefties love to keep the lands public. Crooks and traitors might be willing to part with these lands in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of the country. Lefties might prevent some of that, but at what cost?


Naturally, a decent person wouldn't want bad people making public policy. But no policy should be sacred, particularly if that policy is part of the problems that we are having. Our current policy in many respects, leaves a lot to be desired.


That's all for now.




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