It's always OK to cut funds from the poor and then have sales like this but heaven forbid this administration gets serious about finances or thinks twice about delivering tax cuts that primarily only benefit the wealthiest Americans. We're a big country, so how about thinking about everyone and not just special interests?
The land is on a list of about 300,000 acres of national forest the Bush administration has proposed selling to help fund the operation of rural schools and offset cuts in federal aid.
Forest Service officials said yesterday that they do not expect to sell more than about 175,000 acres in order to reach their goal of raising $800 million. But auctioning any of the land would reverse more than a century of federal policy and law barring such sales of national forests.
Bamford and other critics contend that selling the public lands would not only be a betrayal but could set a dangerous precedent of liquidating federal property to fund other struggling programs, such as Medicare, as the government wrestles with an outsized budget deficit.
