Crazy RWers (okay, that's redundant) now talking about national "yard sale" of government assets

[highplainsdem]

I noticed this story at The Daily Caller yesterday

http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/25/government-yard-sale-could-help-bring-down-national-debt/

and heard the phrase again when I was channel surfing this morning and checked Fox News. On Fox, some idiot whose name I didn't catch was suggesting that the national parks could be sold to Disney.

Of course this is all really about ripping off the national government, taxpayers, and future generations, for the immediate profit of the rich.

But they're framing their plan for grand larceny in such cozy language to lull the people they'll be trying to rob.

Yard sale. Just getting rid of junk you don't need to make a little extra cash. And what will be sold is just "crap" anyway, according to the Daily Caller:

So what kinds of crap can we sell off?

The federal government reportedly owns more than one fourth of the land in the United States. According to the “Budget of the U.S. Government for FY2010,” at the end of FY 2008, the federal government held $767 billion in land, and $421 billion in “mineral rights.”

In addition to land, the Office of Budget and Management reports that Uncle Sam also owns more than $1.17 trillion in fixed reproducible capital (things like buildings and machinery) and $290 billion in inventory.

Yeah, all the federal land and mineral rights are just "crap" that taxpayers shouldn't mind being sold off. And all those buildings and machinery -- who needs them? The people and corporations who'll buy them will be doing us such a big favor...

:sarcasm:

The BS from the right never stops. The estate tax is the "death tax" and supposedly hurts lots of people. It's only "class warfare" if anyone suggests that the rich start paying slightly more taxes, after their taxes have been reduced so drastically the last few decades that income inequality in the US is among the worst in the world.

And now RWers want to have a "yard sale" to get rid of "crap" like national parks and mineral rights.

[gateley]

1. OR rescind the tax cuts to the top 2 percent, stop paying companies to do business

overseas, stop giving tax breaks to behemoths like Exxon, stuff like that.

Don't these people have any common sense?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. What can you say, they are the enemies of America. n/t

[underpants]

3. Yeah uh who do they think has the resources to buy all of it

You think the Kock brothers and their kind would love to get their hands on Yellowstone or any other park land?

:eyes:

[catabryna]

4. Anyone who tries to tell me that Glacier, Yosemite, Yellowstone...

and, the list goes on, are worth $767 billion is out of their mind. These national parks are worth infinitely more than that. In fact, I couldn't even put that price tag on each of them individually. That's just crazy.

[highplainsdem]

5. kick

[deacon]

6. Sickos.