As if selling the american public a bill of goods about 9-11 and Iraq, and tax cuts for the top 1% of the wealthist amoung us, wasn't enough for our slimey semi-elected representives.
Now to pay for all of the above; education, veteran's benifits, disaster relief, enviromental protection & clean-up, miner & worker safely, and highway maintance have all been de-funded.
Our ports are not the only thing that have been put up for sale, now this cabal in Washington D.C. has put our country on the auction block. OUR LAND, our national forests that have been held in a public trust for over 100 years are now for sale.
Forget, road and snowmobile access, forget hunting, fishing, hiking and camping, forget having sustainable use plans and grazing rights, when this land is sold it will be PRIVATE, and have signs posted all over the place saying STAY OUT. Hugh parcels of BLM land have already been sold to oil, gas, mining and timber companies with some being sold at rock bottom price compared to the resource assements on the land.
This land sale is a warning to all my fellow westerners.
The last election was not about gay marriage, abortion, and gun ownership, it was about giving up our LAND & RIGHTS to the greedy, raping and pilaging horad of NEO-CON's that you helped to RE-elect.
In November of this year you will be given another chance to set things right. I hope and pray everyday that my fellow westerners will get sick and tired of being used and abused by the politicians in Washington and start a REAL sagebrush rebellion, not that half-hearted con job Reagan pulled over on us but one more reminicent of Lexington & Concord in 1776.
If the though of voting for a party that you have been taught to hate and revile for the last 20 years is hard to do. Then think of it this way, you aren't voting for an ideaology but for your neighbor. The one that has to work in a mine that hasn't been properly inspected for four years, or your neighbor that has to work in a lumber mill or on a oil rig that no longer mets OSHA standards. Do it for the neighbor that has just lost her apartment because she couldn't pay the rent and buy food for her kids on the wages from three jobs she was trying to work at. Do it for the last of the family owned ranches that still exsist in your valley, and do it for the neighbor that hunts every years so he can put meat on the dinner table. Do it for your children so that they can grow up in the shadow of forest covered mountains and awsome vistas, not blighted by clear cuts and oil rigs.
The national forests and parks in the west are westerners gift and legacy to the rest of the nation. We have cared for and supported them for well over 100 years. Now we have to fight for them, and we have to fight for ourselves, so we don't go back to the bad old days when cooper kings and cattle barons ruled the west.
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Links to articles concerning the sale of federal land
National
Planet Ark
Regional (Rocky Mountains)
New West
Montana
Helena Independent Record
Wyoming
Casper Star Tribune
Colorado
Grand Junction KJCT
Summit Daily
Coloradoan
Loveland FYI
Counterpunch
Utah
Salt Lake City Tribune
New Mexico
The Albuquerque Tribune
