Posted on 02/22/2016 10:25:45 AM PST by magellan
Real estate mogul Donald Trump would not let states take control of federal lands, the Republican presidential candidate said in a recent interview.
"I don't like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don't know what the state is going to do," Trump said during a talk with Field & Stream magazine earlier this week.
The trade publication, sitting down with Trump at Las Vegas' Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, had asked about the issue of turning over federally controlled lands to individual states -- an idea previously floated by rival 2016 contender and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and supported by staunch states-rights activists.
The proposal has also received more attention in light of recent actions by radical conservatives like Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his son Ammon Bundy, who led an armed group earlier this month in occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal land use policies.
Trump cautioned, however, that states would be unpredictable in maintaining the designated lands.
"I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble?" Trump asked. "I don't think it's something that should be sold."
He added: "We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land."
The billionaire businessman suggested later in the interview that while he was a fan of oil and gas companies drilling and fracking on federal lands, protecting the earth should still be a top priority.
"I'm very much into energy, and I'm very much into fracking and drilling, and we never want to be hostage again to OPEC and go back to where we were. And right now, we're at a very interesting point because right now there's so much energy," Trump said. "And maybe that's an advantage and maybe--actually, it's more of an advantage in terms of your question because we don't have to do the kind of drilling that we did."
"I am for energy exploration, as long as we don't do anything to damage the land. And right now we don't need too much -- there's a lot of energy," he said.
The Feds reserved lands. Some were for the soldiers...particularly of the war of 1812.
It's the regulations and doing business. The Feds shouldn't have a hold on mining and oil in any state.
You need to get back on your meds and see your shrink.
If it was me, I would not turn a damn thing over to any government entity until I knew just what the hell they were going to do with it. Because if they leased it for mineral rights to the ChiComs, then I would be held responsible. Ain’t going to happen on my watch.
So I would have my Secretary of the Interior to study and design a plan for transferring control of federal lands to entities with a good business or stewardship plan.
With respect to business plans, I would prioritize small business startups that employ only Americans. With stewardship plans, I would look not only at state but also county plans for maintaining the lands including looking at their funding support to see if they can manage the lands over the long haul. I would also put in prohibitions on resale and transference of mining and logging rights to foreign entities and to cronies.
So there’s a helluva a lot to consider other than to listen to a bunch of pissants on this thread try yet again to cast aspersions on the frontrunner.
Suck it up losers!!!
“The tenth amendment-leave everything not in the enumerated powers to the States.”
Well then Trump is right. Read Article IV.
Being conservative isn’t a high priority with Trump supporters right now. The wall, the wonderful, the tremendous, magnificent wall is what they want and I am hoping he will deliver it, load up the illegals and put them on the other side. Because, everything else is being abandoned for the yuuuuuge wonderful wall and I hope it is painted orange.
You read into it what you will but you are imagining things.
He is simply saying slow down and have a look at the bigger picture.
Here is what I would do:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3400313/posts?page=102#102
Forget China, guns or immigration. Donald Trump is taking on a new issue: federal land ownership.
In a new op-ed for the Reno Gazette-Journal, the Republican presidential front-runner rails against the “draconian rule” of the Bureau of Land Management and the Obama administration’s “land grab” in the western United States.
“The BLM controls over 85 percent of the land in Nevada,” Trump explains. “In the rural areas, those who for decades have had access to public lands for ranching, mining, logging and energy development are forced to deal with arbitrary and capricious rules that are influenced by special interests that profit from the D.C. rule-making and who fill the campaign coffers of Washington politicians.”
On Thursday, Trump told the New York Times he would end an ongoing dispute between Oregon ranchers and federal officials, that’s culminated with a group of armed protesters staging an ongoing occupation of a federal wildlife refuge, with a “phone call.”
It is behind the Sierra club pukes and the BLM land grabs.
It is behind the attacks on ranching and farming. It is behind the EPA going after food production here, and believe me here in northern Michigan it keeps getting harder and harder to farm. And we do a ton of it here.
It is behind children in cages at school bus stops in New Mexico and wolves and grizzlies out of control.
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidspady/2013/10/28/kid-cages-at-school-bus-stops-spark-outrage-n1732543/page/full
http://www.agenda21course.com/lesson-3-wildlands-project/
" Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings-and healthy conditions for people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.†The preamble to The Vancouver Action Plan approved at Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (31 May to 11 June 1976).
They want all humans in apartments and are targeting single family homes out west aggressively. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/19/toole-stack-and-pack-to-save-the-planet/?page=all
“Where is it stated in the Constitution that the FEDgov. can retain real estate ?”
Article IV
Perhaps Cruz supporters distraught at Cruz’s sinking ship should do some research before posting.
“The United States Supreme Court has upheld the broad powers of the federal government to deal with federal lands, for example having unanimously held in Kleppe v. New Mexico[4] that “the complete power that Congress has over federal lands under this clause necessarily includes the power to regulate and protect wildlife living there, state law notwithstanding.””
So, if a state decides to take over some Federal land and then sells it to ConAgra because that's the Gov's biggest campaign donor, you would be ok with that?
It is hoped he would evolve on this. Federal Government owns too much real estate outside their own boundaries. The states should be the proprietors of the property - not DC. The existing, large National Parks would be the ONLY real estate under the DC cabal. States should have the right to do with their land as they please. Look how much slack California has been given.
Mr. T: Think about your answer to this before making any future statement. You have a right to believe what you will - but America has just as much right to oppose that decision. State’s rights should be a top premise in this administration.
That’s out there already, right? And doesn’t seem to be hurting him?
The man outright lies on where he stands. If anything thinks he is on the conservative side, they are downright fooling themselves.
I think I will take Trump at his word rather than what you hope he thinks. Though I like how you think.
Arizona just sold 2400 acres of Indian land to Australia. Harry Reid leased thousands of acres of southern Nevada to China. Didn’t I read Clintons are trying to sell the Oregon land to Russia.
Yes, Nevada needs control of some of this land, for mining and ranching. However, current Nevada politicians can’t be trusted to not sell it overseas.
Good luck.
Somebody should update Trump about it...
1/3 of all the US in fed hands isn’t right.
Could be said about every issue for Trump.
Good for someone here to cite the Constitution on the issue. The late Justice Scalia, may he RIP, would be proud.
It would be nice to be able to say 'I told you so' but there'll be no joy in that, either.
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