If Alaska were it's own country, because of its size and land mass it would rank 33rd among all of the world's nations.
If Texas were it's own country, because of its size and land mass it would rank 40th among all of the world's nations.
If California were it's own country, because of its size and land mass it would rank 59th among all of the world's nations.
But what of the BLM - the Bureau of Land Management, an out of control behemoth of a federal agency filled with progressives and bureaucrats that you never elected - which, BTW, owes its existence due to the lineage going back to the work of big government Theodore Roosevelt - where would it stand?
If the BLM were it's own country, because of its size and land mass it would rank 26th among all of the world's nations.
Naturally, the BLM would knock Alaska down to the 34th country, Texas to 41st, and California down to 60th, respectively.
You still don't think progressive governance is a problem?
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I wanted to issue a small correction/update:
ReplyDeleteThe BLM as it exists today was formed in 1946. However, much of their current holdings, as well as their current culture as a modern progressive bureaucracy owes much to Roosevelt's run-arounds of congress and his 1000+ executive orders, most of which were related to convervationism. Over the last hundred years of progressive governance, there has been much overlap and passing around of land between the Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, and others.
My comment was primarily aimed at the culture that was created within government by the 26th president, not so much the minutae of which department ended up owning which parcels of land on an executive order by executive order basis, and how it would have shook out later over time.
It should be noted that the National Park Service was not created until 1916, roughly 8 years after TR left office. Prior to the progressive era, government engaged in considerably less land hoarding. Nowadays, environmentalism and land use are synonymous terms to out of control, bossy government.
See my posting on July 9, 2016.