Fire Sale! Everything must go!

Rachel Maddow on current proposals by Republicans to sell off federal property to bring down the deficit: "It's like cutting out your kidney to sell on the black market because you have abig credit card bill.". She also said that this whole thing started out as a joke in "The Onion!" :rofl:

this picture?

This has reached a level of insanity I thought I'd never live to see.

Let me get this. In order to pay for tax breaks for the Koch brothers and subsidies to international oil companies, the esteemed Republican Congressman from Florida proposed selling Utah. And he was not joking.

Okay, sure. Utah this year. Idaho next year. California is supposed to fall into the ocean soon, let's sell that next.

pundits everywhere (including on CNN as Rachel noted.)

I'm certain I must be hallucinating this.

Sell Utah? REALLY? Okay, those "the best snow is in Utah" ads irritate me too. But this is just going too far now.

My head hurts. It's beyond :wtf:

This is just sheer insanity. It reminds me of that old movie "Americathon."

“I’m not an economist, but I have maintained a household. The federal government owns 70 per cent of Utah, for example. There are federal buildings. If you need cash, let’s start liquidating.”

He wants to sell Utah?

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/05/17/adventures-with-debt-ceiling-politics


When I read this I laughed so hard I was Cryin!

Broke? Well,Lets just Sell a State!

BAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA!!!

I didn't see the show, but I assume they're talking about selling off protected federal lands, like national forests and parks and such? There are regularly moves to pull that kind of stunt in WI. Makes me sick. Once you sell a forest to a logging company or a mountain to a mining company, it's ruined forever. But, that's ok to republicans, as long as their big $$$$$ friends can make a buck.

In fact, in WI, a side-note to the union-busting bill was a provision in the bill that would allow the Governor's office to sell state-owned power plants and other resources to anyone he wanted for any bid his office thought was "reasonable." Disgusting. These guys can use a couple of years in power to befoul the state (or country) for decades, or perhaps even permanently.

don't give a damn about the people, they have fake religion, and they will sell out anyone/anything including the country to make a buck.

IMO they are more of a threat than any terrorist. The old republicans, the Eisenhower ones deals could be brokered and the ideas of the republicans and democrats gave reasonable solutions.

Today, we have none of that, the current crop of republicans are absolutely wacky.

....my luck in the market sucks to high heaven, so I need to find a better investment. How much they asking?

And the $64,000 question?.......


........will I have to pay a "state tax"?

would replace all of their senators and reps with non-repukes!

Sounds like a win-win to me!!!!!