[Black Agnes]

I’ve long suspected the environmental drama wasn’t about the environment so much as it was about saving the resources for the ‘new owners’.

[Cold Heart]

Clinton ties up coal & forests, carter ties up oil & forests, obama ties up everything else. I'm very sorry, but you are right

[43north]

You are exactly right.

Both branches of the Big Government Party know that there is no way to pay off the debt they have accrued giving out freebies to the very rich and the very poor. They know the US will eventually default. That is not going to make the creditors happy.

Not to worry - the creditors will get land and resources in exchange for the debt. Meanwhile, all the welfare slugs will be placed into concentration camps where they will no longer be a burden on the elite rich and the former middle class will become the new serfs.

[Therapsid]

Thats what alaskan oil has been about for 20 yrs...