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To: koan who wrote (9065)	12/17/2010 12:49:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

No Koan I'm not missing the point, the point you raise is false. I am not the government. Sure I get to vote, and to lobby and protest if I want to; that just means I have influence over the government not that I am the government. Something owned by the government isn't owned by me in principle, and isn't treated like it is owned by me in practice (except that I get to pay for the costs of this ownership with my taxes). do you think the state should sell that land to private Yes, I think a lot of government land should be sold to private individuals. people who would put fences and no tresspassing signs on it. Your making assumptions that are not necessarily correct, and that if correct are not necessarily bad. For example in terms of preserving nature, the right type of private ownership can be as good or better than public ownership. As for huge tracks of wilderness, well much of that won't have much demand for private ownership, and even if it is privately owned it doesn't necessarily mean fenced in or controlled to a greater extent than federally owned land is owned. Federal ownership is neither necessary nor sufficient for their to be a right for non-owners to wander around the property. A lot of federal land is heavily controlled with no such right given to the general public. OTOH privately owned land can allow for such roaming, either by legal requirement or by the decision of the owner of the land.