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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (71224)	12/4/2005 1:58:45 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bloody looters, raping this country. Time to expose the "left wing fangs" and frighten the crap out of them. While you were watching Iraq, Bush was giving our store away WHILE the short-attention-span theater that is American politics has swung back to Iraq, the administration has continued apace with its domestic agenda. To scant public notice, it is busy giving away the store. Poof! There goes much of the land you own in the West. Poof! There goes Amtrak. Poof! There go public radio and television. None of those ends has been achieved yet, but each is afoot, and there is every reason to suppose they will occur, unless a disturbed public bestirs itself from its lethargy and indifference to its own interests. A Republican Congress cant be counted on to balk. All three moves are the work of a doctrinal politics that disdains federal enterprise and dismisses any public, common purpose that isnt the incidental spin-off of private sector activity. The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would open 6 million acres in Western states to purchase by mineral companies and individuals, taking the land out of play for hiking, fishing and other outdoor recreations. Even sections of some national forests and parks are at risk. Speculators could buy tracts with commercial potential for as little as $1,000 an acre and either develop or resell them at higher prices to other developers. Many in the West appreciate the regions public lands as environmental and economic assets. Vacationers dont travel hundreds of miles to gawk at the grandeur of strip malls. Other Westerners — well-funded, commercially aggressive and allied to a predatory politics — clamor that public land denies them a birthright that ought to be theirs for the taking, booty snatched by a distant and contemptible government. But this land is your land, this land is my land, just as Woody Guthrie sang. Perhaps the Senate will hold insidebayarea.com