Comments on: Anti-gay politics and Ron Paul: A match made in Iowa

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:05:06 +0000

This is all well and good and it gets the press, but it is not what bothers me about a Ron Paul a president of this nation. When I was young about the time of the 1964 election my father asked me if I was a conservative. I told him if being a conservative meant preserving our wildlife, forests and national parks then, yes, I was a conservative. Except as I grew up I learned that wasn’t the case.

Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of the Interior (DOI). DOI manages 500 million acres of surface land, or about one-fifth of the land in the United States, including:

•256 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management

•96.2 million acres managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service

•84.6 million acres managed by the National Park Service

•8.7 million acres managed by the Bureau of Reclamation associated with reclamation projects

•66 million acres managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs

The management of lands such as these allows also for the management of one of the most needed resources in any nation, clean water. Then there is the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture which manages 193 million acres of forests and grasslands. While Paul does not mention this specifically, it would certain ly seem to be in his gunsites for elimination.

At the same time Paul proposes selling off Federal lands in the amount of $40 billion. In my opinion Paul’s attempted rape of our national treasures are the best reason to keep him out of office.

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