• 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:
    • 262 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management
    • 95 million acres managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service
    • 84 million acres managed by the National Park Service 
    • 8.6 million acres managed by the Bureau of Reclamation associated with reclamation projects
    • 56 million acres managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs)
  • 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.)

• BUREAUCRATIC INCENTIVES, SOCIAL EFFICIENCY, AND THE CONFLICT IN FEDERAL LAND POLICY

• Budget reduction proposals

• federal ecosystem management: a "train wreck" in the making

• the privatization debate: an insider's view

• Ending Corporate Welfare As We Know It

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