You're not going to believe this. Well, maybe you will.
A year ago, I diaried (and also here) about the Bush administration's attempt to sell over 800,000 acres to pay for schools. Thankfully, with bipartisan opposition, this crazy attempt was foiled.
But, now, it's back:
The Bush administration again proposed selling off hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland to help continue a program that is vital to Oregon county and school budgets.
In his budget released Monday, President Bush proposed raising as much as $800 million by selling nearly 275,000 acres of Forest Service land deemed "isolated or inefficient to manage."
I haven't looked at precisely what property if for sale, but the last time this came around, I mapped some property that was included.
Here is land in the Columbia River Gorge that was slated for sale:
And land near Detroit Lake, Oregon for sale:
And near Bend, Oregon:
And in California:
It is outrageous that Bush more or less bankrupts our country with his crazy war, and, then, to pay for SCHOOLS he proposes to sell off our national treasures. Perhaps this is all part of a means to privatize everything...
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