Trump - Who should own America? The Feds or the States
From a Field and Stream Interview last week (Jan 22, 2016):
Interviewer: I’d like to talk about public land. Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now, there’s a lot of discussion about the federal government transferring those lands to states and the divesting of that land. Is that something you would support as President?
Donald Trump: I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don’t think it’s something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land. And the hunters do such a great job—I mean, the hunters and the fishermen and all of the different people that use that land. So I’ve been hearing more and more about that.
Interviewer: I’d like to talk about public land. Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now, there’s a lot of discussion about the federal government transferring those lands to states and the divesting of that land. Is that something you would support as President?
Donald Trump: I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don’t think it’s something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land. And the hunters do such a great job—I mean, the hunters and the fishermen and all of the different people that use that land. So I’ve been hearing more and more about that.
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Well, what about the Federal government selling those lands? With $19 trillion of National Debt, and $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, I think we could say the Federal government is in trouble. I know he's talked many times before about the country being in trouble, and Federal debt and liabilities are a big part of the trouble. This is why I don't like Trump; he'll say anything to appeal to as many people as he needs to get elected. Then what he does when he gets into office will be a big surprise to many people.
Sales people have a knack at that.
Any State wishing to expand their geographic responsibility only has to apply to Congress for for a transfer of title from Federal to State. Some pieces are given by the Federal Government an example being the Planet Ord or Fort Ord near Monterey California. When the base was closed it went under local government ownership. Same with El Toro Marine base and aviation site which was turned in to three or four golf courses with private air plane airport and a lot of illegal aliens but the local citizens got to pay for the water to keep the greeens green.
Who should own the land? The citizens of the country instead you just get to pay for the cost. Just think of it as condo ownership. First you buy then you rent and then you pay taxes same as any land 'ownership' in the USA. You only get the right to mantain, assume laibility, and pay annual rent. End of property rights.
Yes, my above statement is sarcastic and a failure for answering your question. You can still get yourself arrested, though.
Thus ends the ConLaw lesson for the day. The right to own land was a right granted Temaklos found 'use of land ' but not ' control of land.' Have to read the whole document.
Moot point. With the Bill of Rights effectively gone whose to stop them doing what they want?
Should have paid attention to the New Years Eve speech of our Dictator in Chief and his heavily supporting power base in the US Congress.
Overwhelming majority both sides of the ha ha aisle You elected and sent them.
owned in the first place. And I have a problem
with the notion that the only government oppres-
sion is Federal power. The land should belong to
whoever first fences it in and cultivates it. (Or at
least, fences it in). As the the present "govern-
ment" land (uncultivated, I mean), it should ei-
ther be put up at public auction, or thrown open
to people going in and settling it.
I don't like state government oppression,
either: for instance, slavery and Jim Crow.
I could attribute several meanings to his sentencing. I think he answers that way so that different people can hear what they want to hear. Some hear what they don't want to hear, and for them, since what he said was in reality unclear, he can change the meaning to suit them. He's a negotiator alright. Can we get rid of him? Maybe offer him one of the small Hawaiian islands?
Sanders is honest at least, which I give him credit for, but he assumes there is a money tree out there that just grows and grows by itself without human intervention and can supply everything that anyone would ever want.
Hillary is a chameleon. I have no idea what her positions are, since it depends on the wind. She is in a race with Sanders to figure out how to increase taxes.
At least Trump will slow down the movement to socialism in the USA. He wont stop it, because the president cant on his own, and he isnt very consistent on the subject of private property and human rights. BUT, he is a businessman and will undoubtedly be a good administrator of the federal government.
Its my understanding that the Feds hold the land of territories in trust until they become states, when the state takes possession and control of undeeded real property.
What authority grants the deed to previously undeeded and undeveloped land?
Neither understand the meaning of private property.
Trump is a Teddy Roosevelt kind of republican... in many unfortunate ways.
Regards,
O.A.
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