Should Public Lands be Sold to Private Owners?
Today's Peninsula Poll question is based on this article, which appeared in today's paper but for some reason is not found at the PDN website.
Should federal lands not in national parks and monuments be put up for sale, as proposed in congressional legislation?
Number of votes cast: 631
Should federal lands not in national parks and monuments be put up for sale, as proposed in congressional legislation?
Number of votes cast: 631
posted by Tom Harper at 1:25 PM
2 Comments:
So, this is the question being asked:
"Should federal lands not in national parks and monuments be put up for sale, as proposed in congressional legislation?"
This is a lot like the question the City of Port Angeles put before its' residents recently: "We can't afford everything we've committed you to pay for, so, what programs and services do you want cut?"
Realizing that raising taxes is not a popular or, in the case of Port Angeles, even feasible option, the staff and their politicians present the issue as, "What of YOUR things do you want to give up to accommodate OUR priorities?"
Interesting way to frame the issues. You note that they aren't talking about reducing THEIR pay, or benefits in order to balance the budgets. THEY keep THEIRS, while asking YOU to give up YOURS.
They aren't talking about reducing all the military bases all over the world, or reducing the arms shipments for all the groups fighting our proxy wars. That would reduce the profits to the country's biggest corporate welfare recipients, the weapons manufacturers. But, the public is to sell it's commonly held lands so the cash can keep flowing to the military-industrial complex Republican President and former General Eisenhower warned us about.
"Funny" how we're just doing all the things we can think of, to ruin our own country.
Somebody on the radio posed a question the other day: "Do you think Capitalism will destroy Democracy?"
Interesting way to frame the issues.
In today's PDN, we see another poll.
Demonstrating how poorly they understand the issues, the poll asks something like "Do you believe the current drought in the Olympics is caused by climate change".
There is no "drought in the Olympics". The area has received the normal amount of precipitation, and in fact, in some places, above average. Yes, it has been raining, as any of us who have been paying attention for the last few months will remember.
The problem is that it has been abnormally WARM, and the precipitation has been falling as rain, instead of snow. The problem is that there is no stored water in the form of snow for later in the year, when THEN it is anticipated there will be drought conditions in the area.
Anyways, what do you think the results of that poll will be?
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