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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRon Paul Wants To Sell Yellowstone
Some of my favorite childhood memories were family road trips (at least when I wasnt fighting with my brother). We visited the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Glacier National Monument. We spent many weekends in Rocky Mountain National Park. If Ron Paul has his way, these treasured National Parks will be gone, or at least sold to the highest bidder.
In a Nevada campaign stop, Paul addressed the issue of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, an idea thats almost universally disliked in Nevada and for good and pretty obvious reason.
From Think Progress:
Questioner: This plan pertains to using ATVs and things like that on federal land.
Paul: Well, Id be opposed to that. I dont want the federal government dictating to Nevada, period. Id rather see the land owned and controlled by the states
Heres the video:
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/08/ron-paul-wants-to-sell-yellowstone-video/
1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)would make a great place for his next Klan meetings
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)We do call them National Parks, don't we?
malaise
(269,157 posts)my dear California Peggy
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)I guess he must be one.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Not just for him but for Libertarians in general. omg
Selling off the National Parks? FerfucksSAKE!
hunter
(38,327 posts)... some geothermal power plants, lots of souvenir shops and chain restaurants, a Six Flags over Yellowstone, a Steamin' Hot water park, Yogi Bear's picnic garden, Buffalo Bill's jerky company.... Most of all PROFITS!
KansDem
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TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)series a few years ago. There was a reason that the national parks came under federal jurisdiction....side shows, exploitations, money-grubbing, destruction of natural resources. Do we think it would be different now???