“Be a little more specific. What kind of land does the constitution say the feds can own?”
Given that the ratifying states then handed over large swathes of land to the US government, I’d have to say the original intent allowed the US government to own large swathes of land:
“Federal land ownership began when the original 13 states ceded title to more than 40% of their “western” lands (237 million acres between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River) to the central government between 1781 and 1802. Federal land acquisition from foreign countries began with the Louisiana Purchase (530 million acres) in 1803 and continued via treaties with Great Britain and Spain (76 million acres) in 1817 and 1819, respectively. Other substantial acquisitions (620 million acres), via purchases and treaties, occurred between 1846 and 1853. The last major North American land acquisition by the U.S. federal government was the purchase of Alaska (378 million acres) in 1867.”
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/crsdocuments/RL34267_12032007.pdf
Are folks suggesting we need to give Alaska back to the Russians? Or revoke the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
Tell us about Seward’s Folly when you’re forking over $20 for a raw steak, having paid $8 a gallon for gas to get to the store.
And I ain’t just awoofin’. Who thought gas would be $4 @ gallon now? I paid $10 for a strip steak a few days ago, at Aldis.
I don’t know about Nevada, but drive through the Cimarron county, western Oklahoma, and you’ll see Angus grazing right up next to oil rigs.
This is Cloward-Piven: Obama & Co. hate meat and oil, unless it’s Kobe beef or jet fuel for their vacations. Grazing cattle aren’t hurting them, they just want to hurt us.