Jeb Bush trying to sell part of Ocala National Forest for education.

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Sounds like these Bush brothers work in unison. Just like his brother, Jeb Bush plans to give away our national treasure, probably to one of his lucky cronies. They act like spoiled children, those Bush boys, like they have never had to work hard in their life, but have been given a huge inheritance. You can tell they didn't earn it themselves because they haven't learned to live off the interest, and are instead going deep into the principle. Except, it's not their inheritance, it's ours.



Editorial from the Orlando Sentinel.

A Land Grab

This is a joke, right?

The Bush administration wants to support "rural education" by selling 300,000 acres of forestland, including almost 1,000 acres in the Ocala National Forest.

Doesn't this rob the communities of the very thing that defines them as rural? Are we missing something here?

Not only does this idea threaten the very communities it claims to provide for, it doesn't even make sense financially.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-ed01106mar01,0,3881444.story

[Metta]

1. A thin Republican excuse to privatize public resources.

How can the governor of a state sell anything federal?

[AzDar]

2. It almost frightens me that the aren't even trying to CLOAK their

corruption anymore. Like frenzied auctioneers: the ports, forests, the Alaskan Wilderness.
Someone needs to smack them upside their deluded little (Jeb's notwithstanding) heads and let them know : AMERICA DOES NOT BELONG TO THE BFEE to sell piece-by-piece!!

Disclaimer to lurking agents: I am not advocating actual violence toward the Bush Brothers; although the whole world knows they could use a good smackdown...

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4. The Republicans have raised the bar for corruption so high that

they could sail a cargo ship through it.

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3. There's a plan...

...to sell 300,000 acres of national forest in 41 states.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11617564/

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5. We need to watch to see who bids for the land and who gets it.

I bet there will be a lot of cronyism involved.