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Subject: Obama in Charge of Bizarre Federal Land Grab

Congress to transfer
huge federal acreage and Obama will grab it by decree to remove more
US jobs...NOT CREATE.

While we work and vote, Congress & Obama,
hides, robs us, our children, and our futures blind.

WA DC owns nearly 30% of the US and wants much more of our land.
They will stop natural resource use and shut down more American jobs.
No more timber, mining, water, access by the public ( closed-down
& removed bridges & roads), and a lot more
unemployment by lost jobs. They also refuse to maintain what they already
have, and have created more use taxes/fees for national land use!

Wild Olympics is another plan to lock up land by Rick Larsen, the enviro's. and the Dems. WA schools and teachers lost timber sales revenue via
the creation of the WILD SKY wilderness area. We all will continue to lose
more land and jobs with the planned creation of other areas all across the
nation.

Never before has this happened. So what is really happening behind
our backs? While we work and vote, Congress hides, robs us, our
children, and our futures blind.

VOTE THEM OUT...RECYCLE CONGRESS...LARSEN, INSLEE, MURRAY,
ETC. db

This Land WAS Your Land:
Administrations Bizarre Federal Land Grab

Obama in Charge of
Bizarre Federal Land Grab

http://www.newsmax.com/Murdock/barackobamaBureauof/2010/10/01/id/372219

Friday, 01 Oct 2010 10:52 AM

By: Deroy
Murdock

The next Congress should
enact a moratorium on land nationalization. The feds should stop fleecing
exhausted taxpayers for fresh billions to purchase new acreage for Uncle Sam to
mismanage.

Washington, D.C., already
lords over some 650 million acres, or 29 percent of America's land. The federal
government owns 45.3 percent of California, 48 percent of Arizona, 57.45
percent of Utah, 69 percent of Alaska, and 84.5 percent of Nevada.

No state from the Rockies west is less than 30 percent federal, as are Montana
and Washington.

But that is not enough.

Uncle Sam is like a hyperactive brat who trips over his abandoned train set and
stumbles over his Legos while running out to slap a
shiny, new dirt bike on Daddy's credit card. Washington constantly expands the
federal estate, even while mishandling its existing properties.

In March 2009, President
Obama designated 2 million federal acres as "wilderness," thus
limiting public access and uses thereon.

Unsated, Obama last April announced
America's Great Outdoors Initiative, a national listening tour to concoct new
ways for Washington to interfere in natural-resource matters.

A report due Nov. 15 will include ideas for "creating corridors and
connectivity" across exterior spaces, most likely through land
procurement.

Even scarier is a secret
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) discussion paper leaked to Sen. Jim DeMint, R,
S.C., and Rep. Robert Bishop, R, Utah.

Labeled "Internal Draft — NOT FOR RELEASE," this document
confirms the federal government's infinite desire for physical enlargement.

BLM advocates "expanded landholdings" and "acquiring parcels
adjacent to its current holdings." These envirocrats
also argue that "Should the legislative process not prove fruitful . . .
BLM would recommend that the Administration consider using the Antiquities Act
to designate new National Monuments by Presidential Proclamation."

So, if Congress fails to grip federal acreage even more tightly, Obama should
grab it by decree.

BLM lists 14 such potential monuments, from New Mexico's 58,000-acre Lesser
Prairie Chicken Preserve to California's 3 million-acre Modoc Plateau.

All told, these "Treasured Landscapes" represent approximately 12.85
million federal acres that would shift from mixed-use to virtually untouchable
status.

BLM also cites seven prospective "land-rationalization" efforts, from
80,000 acres on Montana's Upper Missouri River (estimated cost: $24 million) to
1.62 million acres in Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley ($2,383,260,000). BLM
wants $4.1 billion to nationalize at least 1.8 million acres.

"This is only part of the entire document, and just addresses BLM," says Melissa Subbotin, spokeswoman for the Congressional Western Caucus.
"The Obama Administration has refused to turn over the rest of this memo,
even though they publicly have acknowledged that there are sections concerning
the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service. The true designs
of this entire document are enormous."

The notion of even more soil under Uncle Sam's boot is aggravating given the
chaotic state of the federal land portfolio.

According to the Congressional Research Service, BLM already has a deferred-maintenance
backlog of at least $480 million.

At the Fish and Wildlife
Service, $2.4 billion in fixes cry for attention. The Forest Service needs $5.3
billion of work, while the National Park Service awaits $8.2 billion in road,
trail, and building renovations. Why not perform these repairs before nabbing
more land to neglect?

Failed federal stewardship
— from refusing to thin dense foliage to restricting salvage logging of
dead trees — lets lightning bolts transform forests into ashes.
Nationalizing more acres will mean even more wildfires, which will cremate
birds, butterflies, and other creatures.

"In business, insolvent organizations typically don't buy more,"
observes Reed Watson, a research fellow at the Property and Environment
Research Center in Bozeman, Mont. "Instead, valuable parts are broken up
and purchased by more effective managers who, then, increase revenues and
generate profits. Uncle Sam is doing exactly the opposite."

With America $13.45
trillion in debt, spending reduction must start somewhere. Freezing
Washington's real-estate empire is an excellent place for the incoming Congress
to exhibit a scintilla of fiscal sanity.

Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a
media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at
Stanford University. E-mail him at [email-masked]