The Land and Water Conservation Bill passed both the House and Senate sits on the president’s desk awaiting final signature. The New York Times quotes Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), “This package gives our country a million acres of new wilderness, protects a million acres of public lands from future mining, permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.”
Which must all sound wonderful to those believing the federal government is a good steward of the land, but according to economist Stephen Moore, it isn’t.
Rep. Garret Graves, R.-La., and an expert on natural resource issues, the bill “permanently authorizes $9 billion per decade for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to acquire new federal and state lands.” My Heritage Foundation colleague Nick Loris reports that the Department of the Interior already has a $16 billion maintenance backlog on the lands the government already owns but can’t take care of.
Too bad the federal government isn’t supposed to own land other than DC and military bases.
Ahh … the Gentle Giant … “Ducks Unlimited” has done more for “wetlands” than has the Federal Leviathan.
Standard Oil is what stopped the slaughter of whales, not “Greenpeace.”
Propaganda REALLY is a powerful force for Evil, isn’t it?
The House and Senate need be turned out – or hanged – whichever solves the problem.
izlamo delenda est …
I don’t see the problem. If conservatives keep up the good fight, the fight for communism, for a few more decades, maybe another century, there’ll be fewer, maybe far fewer, imaginary claims for reparations, when the whole thing is finally fixed. (I know, some people claim a genetic right to reparations, but that’s never gonna’ change.) If, on the other hand, this causes conservatives to flip, and decide that now’s the time to end commun… oh, you got me! Even I can’t troll that one all the way to the end.
The Fed’s or the States can’t manage the land. I did see The Department of Corrections inmates out clearing brush the other day. They even trust them with chain saws! But this isn’t even a spit in the bucket, thus they’re preparing for the next wave of arson fires this summer. I bet Trump vetoes the bill.
Maybe you should troll elsewhere then.
Shouldn’t the government be selling land to pay off that 20 TRILLION DOLLAR charge card???
If they REALLY wanted to protect nature, the environment, public lands and our natural resources, congress, how about stop letting in millions of third world invaders every year!
@Joe Biden March 5, 2019 at 9:42 am
u mad brah?
Texas is virtually immune from this land grab as all public lands in question in Texas belong to Texas. It was a stipulation agreed upon when Texas joined the United States in 1836. Believe me, the ranchers and private land owners take better care of the land than the federal government does.
“Texas is virtually immune from this land grab as all public lands in question in Texas belong to Texas. It was a stipulation agreed upon when Texas joined the United States in 1836. ”
…and once a Democrat is President again, @Hambone, what do you think the odds are that they are going to care about it? After all, it’s just another old document by a bunch of probably rayyciss dead White men, and THEY are SO much smarter than WE about absolutely EVERYTHING…
…once the Democrats take over again, State’s Rights will be back OFF the table. Just like under Obama. There’s a lot of OTHER things that will start the now-inevitable Civil war besides THIS, though, so maybe once the shooting starts, it will be awhile before they get around to Texas land grabs again…
One has to wonder how on earth this nefarious land grab got past the Republican held Senate in the first place. What good is it to hold a branch of government if they just rubber stamp bad Democratic policy?
The entire govt. conservation bureaucracy is out of control. My daughter and son in law work for the forest service and are convinced their job is to be the “protector of wilderness”. Anyone who disagrees is a corporate shill. They’ve been well indoctrinated.
yea, they’ll regulate drain water, seasonal ponds, and wells I believe. controlling water is every RATS dream.
…I think there was a Mad Max movie about where that ends up, @carter…
I know, I’m the one with the binoculars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d605rM0U3x0
DC FORTS & PORTS only.
I get royalty checks for those words, “It’s coming, get ready”.
To date, I think, 2.6 mil.
…so does that mean Bill Clinton gets a royalty check for “I’M coming, get ready”, @carter?
Rain that falls on you property does not belong to you.
I’ve decided our Government will continue to try and control ALL the land mass so the can keep us living in small condensed areas. We’re easier to kill that way.
@Bad_Brad March 5, 2019 at 1:33 pm
> We’re easier to kill that way.
And cheaper to farm.
We need the Republican names that signed into this shit.
Cruz & Lee are the only ones I know of that voted against it.