Quote:He does realize that what he's talking about is the federal park program setup by Teddy Roosevelt? Because that's exactly what that is and what these people believe is that the government can't setup regulations regarding federal parks and protecting them from commercial exploitation. If these people had their way there wouldn't be the Grand Teton Park and Yellowstone wouldn't exist as well hundreds of other nature areas. Some of the most beautiful scenery in the US and the world would have been turned over to the kind of people who would strip the land of whatever was valuable on or in it. 

 

It's cool and also a general desire of the people that national parks exist and are protected. That's great.  But don't be deceived, the federal government is not holding all this land because it wants to "save the planet" or whatever. 

 

Just like everybody else, they are interested in the resources the land provides. They're sitting on an investment.  When the Middle-East one day is utterly depleted, the people in charge will need some place to turn. Oh look, we have this land to give to whomever we wish. They will sell it to a corporation they are heavily invested in. $$$$, power, control, ect. flows from that.

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