Santorum In Idaho: Sell Off Public Lands To The Private Sector

[Emit]

Speaking at a campaign stop in Idaho Tuesday night, Rick Santorum continued the Republican presidential contenders’ recent pattern of calling for the selling off of public lands. According to the Idaho Statesmen, Santorum told Idahoans that:

But there’s a lot of land out there that is land that can and should be managed by stewards who care about that land. I believe the land is there to serve man, not man there to serve the land. If we turn that, obviously, BLM, they just don’t — look, we’re not going to have the resources to manage this land correctly. The federal government doesn’t care about it, they don’t care about this land. They don’t live here, they don’t care about it, we don’t care about it in Washington. It’s just flyover country for most of the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

We need to get it back into the hands of the states and even to the private sector. And we can make money doing it, we can make money doing it by selling it. So I believe that this is critically important.

~SNIP~

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/16/426828/santorum-in-idaho-sell-off-public-lands-to-the-private-sector/

[Angry Dragon]

1. Santorum has it backwards

His god said man was suppose to serve the land .......... that is what a steward is

and after Santorum sells all this land is his god going to make more??

'we don’t care about it in Washington' ... very telling words by rick ......... he does not care about it


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[tabatha]

2. Don't you dare.

A large majority will oppose it.

[IDemo]

4. A large number of righties and state rights people here in Idaho support it, though

See: sagebrush rebellion

[Larkspur]

3. Santorum is the anti-Teddy Roosevelt

It was a early 20th century Republican President, Teddy Roosevelt, who championed the preserving of public lands, like Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, etc., for future generations. These lands are our nation's treasures and needed to be protected for the benefit of the People.

Santorum & Co. are the incarnation of crony capitalism. He may call himself a Catholic but he worships Ceaser, not Christ.

[madinmaryland]

5. I was thinking the same thing. These guys bear no representation to the original republicans

like Teddy Roosevelt. TR would be rolling over in his grave if he could hear the bullshit from these guys.

[hifiguy]

7. If TR were to appear today and hear the Repukes

he would load his elephant gun with rock salt and engage in a little target practice on the seats of their trousers.

[montanacowboy]

6. In the late 80's here in Montana

it was known as the Sagebrush Rebellion

where all public land would be sold to private interests

It didn't happen and hopefully will die along with Sancto Santorum's pathetic presidential bid.