You ingrateful sot you.
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I’m not the ungrateful snot. The citizens of Alaska that want to become an independent nation are the ungrateful folks.
There probably isn’t a state in the union that doesn’t have more federal land than they would like to see. Land that someone would like to use and or exploit for profit. Pffft.
re oil: Alaska doesn’t ‘own’ the oil. A big oil company owns the oil.
But they do own all the rights to all the oil... Alaska has all the Lower 48 needs, and would love to develop it, but the Federal Government says no.
Where does all this "tremendous money drain" go? I think if you look at the actual dollar amounts, far less money goes to alaska than goes to any other state. The people who want to complain about the ungrateful Alaskans who are trying to develop the frontier with both hands tied behind our backs, always couch their figures in a per capita way. After all, since only 600 thousand people survive the winters up here to try and make a living, every dollar spent on the federal park that is larger than your entire state looks real impressive, if you charge it to the 600k.
How about you charge it to the square mile?, heck, throw in all the private property for free. We get less money than ANY State.
That the problem with statistics, its damn easy to whip the sheeple in a frenzy with them.
Alaska gets less dollars per square mile of land taken by the federal government than any place, including Hamas in Palestine. And that is why I have a bad attitude. You are a victim of Class warfare against people you have never met.
Get over it, and know your true enemy. The Feds who personally TOOK YOUR MONEY, not Alaskans.
Thank you for your time.