Sell the National Forests???
Here's another brilliant idea from the W. Bush- leaguers . Make up for the billions blitzed on Iraq and the further billions foregone in the upper crust tax cuts by selling off big pieces of our national forests! Did you hear about that? Probably not unless you are in a Knight Ridder Publishing city. Note: Published on Friday, February 10, 2006 by Knight Ridder Bush Administration Moves to Sell National Forest Land by Seth Borenstein Feb 10... and very little national pick-up of the story. I found it because one of Netscape's newshounds noticed it on CommonDreams .Org and posted it yesterday. The full story is at: www.netscape.com today (Sunday 2-25-07) Here are a few excerpts: WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will unveil a proposal Friday to sell up to 200,000 acres of national forest land in "isolated parcels" ranging from a quarter of an acre to 200 acres, much of it in California. "I am outraged, and I don't think the public is ...