The 110th Congress
should
- begin taking steps to abolish the
Department of Interior by
- selling land to fund Social
Security obligations (DOI manages 507
million acres of surface land, or about one-fifth of the
land in the United States, including:
- terminate socialist oil industry operations: The Minerals
Management Service has jurisdiction over approximately 1.76
billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf, on which it
manages about 7,600 active oil and gas
leases on 40 million acres.
- privatize "Recreation
and Cultural Opportunities" managed by DOI, by
selling assets to charitable conservancies or Free Market
recreation and entertainment industries.
- terminate corporate welfare provided by DOI research.
- terminate Soviet-style production of energy and water (DOI's
Bureau of
Reclamation is "the largest wholesaler of water in
the country" and the nation’s second largest producer
of hydroelectric power, generating more than 40
billion kilowatt hours of energy each year from 58
power plants. Government should be neither
"wholesaler" nor retailer.)
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