Montana senator blasts Bush's public land sell-off

[montana500]

wilderness-sportsman.com (follow this issue in the news section )


http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/02/24/news/top/news01.txt

"Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., urged a standing room only crowd Thursday to remain vigilant on what's become a recurring issue of selling public lands for everything from paying for rural education to reducing the national debt.

“It's an issue that keeps raising its ugly head,” Baucus told the nearly 200 people crowded into a Missoula Children's Theatre meeting room. “We have to continue to be very vigilant. This is a very live issue that has a good chance of succeeding.”

“My experience in Washington is that it's never over until it's over and even then it's not over,” he said. “You can't assume anything.”



In a meeting billed as a “call to arms,” Baucus urged people to get involved in defeating a proposal contained in the Bush administration's budget to sell some U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands."

[CottonBear]

1. Selling off our public lands to pay short term debts is un-American,

shortsighted, stupid and, if I might go so far, treasonous.

[xchrom]

2. all so bush can get his war on!

[montana500]

3. it's very sad, and your comment sums it up. nm

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[Kansas Wyatt]

4. Bush isn't selling off public land to the House of Saud or the UAE

Is he?:shrug:

Could you imagine the reaction of Freeperville, Murika if they did acquire U.S. public land?