Another criminal idiot in the National Parks

agesilaus wrote:
Gold Butte NM is in Utah, strange it looks like it is east of Vegas to me. As usual liberals always resort to personal attacks.

You are so off base and refusing to listen to our arguments that it is ridiculous. First, you accused me of not being able to have an opinion on the issue becuase I live in MD - and yet you live in North Florida per your profile so the same logic should fit? You are entitled to your opinion but I'm not?

Then you make blanket statements about liberals to all of us who oppose you. I have never voted for a single Democrat in my life and I'm a staunch conservative but I have a brain for myself and the both parties have issues where they are right and where they are wrong.

Some conservatives are couching this as big government when it's protecting a natural resource and alllowing the public access to land. I grew up in Louisiana and I could hunt all I wanted because most land was owned by people I knew if not cousins and the timber companies let folks hunt on their land. Because of idiots like in the original post driving on the salt flats the timber companies restricted access and I don't blame them. What about the person who lives in the city and doesn't have access to rural land? Public land is the answer.

State control is the worst of both worlds because they restrict the public but it's still not in private hands. It's possible to allow access to gas and oil on public land to the benefit of the tax payer and the public.

You could sell off all BLM and other Federal land and still be in debt and yet the natural resources would be lost forever to future generations. The answer to the debt is to cut spending. I can sell everything in my garage and have a 50 percent down payment to that new toy hauler I want but as soon as I want to take a cross country vacation I need a new revenue source.