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Galraedia

(5,026 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 07:26 PM Feb 2012

Ron Paul Wants To Sell Yellowstone

Some of my favorite childhood memories were family road trips (at least when I wasn’t fighting with my brother). We visited the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Glacier National Monument. We spent many weekends in Rocky Mountain National Park. If Ron Paul has his way, these treasured National Parks will be gone, or at least sold to the highest bidder.

In a Nevada campaign stop, Paul addressed the issue of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, an idea that’s almost universally disliked in Nevada and for good and pretty obvious reason.

From Think Progress:

Paul: I want as much federal land to be turned over to the state as possible—the regulatory approach to tell people how to do and what to say. So I was essentially other than the other members of Congress from this state — I very early on opposed the dumping of nuclear waste in Nevada, so I want the state to make a decision—

Questioner: This plan pertains to using ATVs and things like that on federal land.

Paul: Well, I’d be opposed to that. I don’t want the federal government dictating to Nevada, period. I’d rather see the land owned and controlled by the states


Here’s the video:

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/08/ron-paul-wants-to-sell-yellowstone-video/
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rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
8. The exact same words exploded into my consciousness when I read that headline...
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 08:04 PM
Feb 2012

I guess he must be one.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
3. Fork. Stick. Done.
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 07:31 PM
Feb 2012

Not just for him but for Libertarians in general. omg

Selling off the National Parks? FerfucksSAKE!

hunter

(38,317 posts)
4. Why not? Build some golf courses, a Holiday Inn Express overlooking Old Faithful...
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 07:47 PM
Feb 2012

... some geothermal power plants, lots of souvenir shops and chain restaurants, a Six Flags over Yellowstone, a Steamin' Hot water park, Yogi Bear's picnic garden, Buffalo Bill's jerky company.... Most of all PROFITS!


Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
14. This takes me back to Ken Burns' National Parks
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 10:46 PM
Feb 2012

series a few years ago. There was a reason that the national parks came under federal jurisdiction....side shows, exploitations, money-grubbing, destruction of natural resources. Do we think it would be different now???

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