Can someone tell me why people are freaking out over the sale of public land?

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Bc Chiner man is asshoe and I don't want him near out military bases or growing anything......oh yeah I don't want any foreigner owning 'Merica

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okay so why is the Trump admin selling the public land?

Short answer - I'd rather land stay undeveloped rather than get turned into urban crap.

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okay so why is the Trump admin selling the public land?

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Pretty sure they pulled that part the bill the other day. Unless you’re referencing a different bill.

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Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah announced over the weekend he was removing a provision from the Senate's "big, beautiful bill" that would allow the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands for affordable housing and infrastructure.

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"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method." – Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

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Aside from the wisdom of TR quoted above, the idea that you would propose a plan that increases federal spending and sells assets for less than pennies of said debt is just a moronic plan.



The land is yours to use. It's more about National Forests and BLM lands than National Parks but could be a slippery slope. You may not utilize public lands often, or you might not realize that you do but it is a good thing to have swaths of land that are off limits to human expansion. It's good to have wild places that you are welcome to go to at any time and be free.

They were told to freak out over it and or they don't realize what and why it is being put up for sale.

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They were told to freak out over it

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Told by who? Even lefties no longer care about our forests. I told myself it was awful idea the second I heard Trump mention it

The feds should not own most of the west, they should only own national parks and military bases.

Return it to the states, let the people decide what to do with it.

Mostly due to misinformation and laziness.

For example, Shawn Ryan had a guest on last week, his credentials were “I killed a bunch of towel heads and grew up in the west and now sell coffee and knives on instagram”. His opening argument was that the bill would take grazing leases from ranchers and they would all go broke. I don’t know when the episode was recorded, but the initial House version, the initial Mike Lee version, and the first revision after the Parlimentarian adjustments all included the grazing exemption. It wasn’t until the final bill that they removed the grazing exemption for all BLM leases within 5 miles of a population center. Which is maybe 1% of all grazing leases in the country, ranchers are not leasing lands within 5 miles of Denver or Cheyenne or Boise they are out in bum frick where 99% of libtard hippies are not interested in visiting because it is not ‘Gram worthy selfie territory.

Another outdoors podcast I listen to was talking about how 80 miles of the Tahoe Rim Trail was going to be sold off for logging. The bill specifically excluded selling the lands for anything other than housing.

Sadly most people these days just get their information from uninformed retards on Reddit or X and just run with it so we end up with a modern day version of the telephone game and nobody knows wtf is actually gong on.


The initial House Bill included USFS and BLM lands that did not have high value for recreation or conservation. The initial Mike Lee Senate Bill was the same. The post-Parliamentarian Bill actually stripped ALL USFS lands and ALL BLM lands more than 5 miles from population centers. But not a single useful idiot was aware of these changes.


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Not a single one of these morons even has read the bill or knows what was in it. It did not permit selling lands that were already designated as National Park, National Monument, Wilderness, Refuge, etc. It did not permit selling lands to foreign nations or foreign residents. It did not permit selling the land to Black Rock or Black Stone or Black Whoever. It gave States the first right of refusal to purchase any property that went to auction. As stated above the final version excluded all USFS lands and BLM lands more than 5 miles form population centers so literally nobodies “severe camp in the middle of nowhere” was at risk in the final version. Sad.