welndmn
04-05-2001, 11:49 AM
CARA Land Grab*** Vote Delayed!
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American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network
PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: <alra@pacifier.com> -
http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003
Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com
***CARA Land Grab*** Vote Delayed!
A vote on the CARA Pork Barrel Land Grab was put off until Thursday or
Friday, April 5 or 6!
YOUR EFFORTS moved several Senators into action to defend private
property
rights and fiscal responsibility!!! (see below who some of our
HEROES
are)
YOU HAVE succeeded so far - please keep going for two more days and we
will win another round.
CARA, which would provide over one billion dollars per year to government
agents to condemn private land for almost any reason, from historical
preservation
to baseball stadium construction to more wilderness, was
derailed - for
at least one day.
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's last-minute amendment to add CARA as part
of the Federal Budget guidelines was put off and not introduced on
Wednesday.
However, the Senate debate on the Federal Budget guidelines
will continue
on Thursday and conclude on Friday. The Landrieu CARA
amendment could
be introduced at any time on those two days.
The Landrieu CARA amendment would include room for CARA in the Federal
Budget guidelines being debated this week. It is not a vote directly on
CARA, but a vote on making it part of the budget plan, which would increase
CARA's chances if it is brought up later this year.
"CARA" is the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. However, it should be
called the Condemnation and Relocation Act because of the massive,
unprecedented
land acquisition funding in the bill.
It could also be called the Congressional Abdication of Responsibility Act
because in addition to the land acquisition, it creates a trust fund of
guaranteed money for pork barrel spending projects, mostly for Louisiana.
And guess who wants to load up the federal budget with this disaster -
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Senator Landrieu has decided to say "Take
a Hike" to land owners, because CARA also includes three hundred million
dollars per year for bridges, roads, levee construction, courthouses and
more - whether it is justified or necessary or not - guaranteed for
Louisiana.
That's a pretty good deal, except for the taxpayers of the
other forty-nine
states!
Public works projects are necessary and we all need them. But why should
Louisiana get a special deal at everyone else's expense???
CARA establishes a Pork Barrel Land Grab trust fund - guaranteed money
for
two purposes - land acquisition and pork barrel spending.
Spending for national defense is NOT a trust fund - it is part of the
annual regular appropriations process. So CARA proposes to make land
acquisition and Louisiana pork a higher priority than national defense!!!
OUR HEROES - here are SOME of the Senators who we know are fighting
FOR
private property rights and AGAINST more government lands and wilderness
designations that will result from CARA:
Senator Craig Thomas of Wyoming.
Senator Conrad Burns of Montana.
Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma.
Senator Larry Craig of Idaho.
If you live in their states, be sure and THANK them.
ACTION ITEM:
CALL, FAX AND E-MAIL YOUR SENATORS. The call and fax are best.
DO NOT TAKE ANY SENATOR FOR GRANTED.
Do Not Fail To Make Your Calls - Please!!!
Here is a temporary FREE NUMBER to call any Senator: (800) 648-3516.
EVERY SENATOR MAY BE CALLED AT THE REGULAR CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD
(202) 224-3121.
URGE THEM TO
VOTE NO on the Landrieu CARA amendment! NO land grabs!
Two more days - Thursday and Friday - and we will win another round!
Reasons to fight CARA:
***It creates a trust fund that makes land acquisition a higher priority
than defense spending!
***It includes over a billion dollars per year GUARANTEED to hand over
to
state and federal government agents to condemn private land!
***Land acquisition and condemnation has always been used as a weapon by
the Federal land agencies to regulate and control private landowners.
***CARA could cause hundreds of small communities in existing Federal areas
to be wiped off the map.
***CARA sets aside $3 billion per year, $45 billion over 15 years that does
not have to compete with medical care, education, defense or any other
social need. Most of this money goes for land acquisition.
***It gives money to giant land trusts like the Conservation Fund and
Nature
Conservancy to buy more land and turn it over to government agents.
Of
course, the land trusts make a "profit."
***CARA will destroy farms, ranches, access to minerals and forests and
undermine the economic survivability of resource dependent communities
nationwide.
***CARA will provide millions of Federal dollars to State Game and Fish
agencies to impose many new Endangered Species Act designations and
regulations.
***Access by geologists for exploration, discovery and development of
important
mineral sites will be limited because CARA will enhance large
scale land
closures and the purchase of potential mining properties such as
the New
World Mine in Montana. CARA will cost jobs.
***CARA will undermine the economic ecosystem of rural America. As farms,
ranches, mines, forestry operations and other private property are
purchased
by Federal and state land acquisition, small towns and whole
communities
will begin to wither and gradually die over time.
***The Federal land agencies have purchased over seven million acres of
private land since 1966. Rural America will be damaged beyond repair if
CARA becomes law and funds the acquisition of as much as 20 million more
acres of rural land in and around small towns and communities over the next
15 years.
***With land acquisition funding well over $1 billion per year, the greens
will lobby for more and more before every election. No matter how much
they get, it will never be enough.
***CARA buys private land converting it to Federal land which means a lot
of it will go into new Federal natural management locations and Wilderness
areas where hunters and fishermen have little or no access. CARA should
require no net loss of lands available to hunting.
***Federal land acquisition buys private land and removes it from the tax
rolls thereby increasing the tax burden of other local taxpayers and
reducing
important services such as schools, hospitals and libraries.
***CARA sends hundreds of millions of dollars to the states and local
governments
in a smoke screen for Federal dollar control with strings
attached about
how the money is spent to meet Federal land use planning
goals.
***CARA vastly increases the amount of funds to convert tax paying private
land into over regulated Federal land controlled by the Park Service,
Forest
Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM. This is a bad idea.
Call both your Senators!
Forward this message to at least five other people.
Call five friends and have them call.
------------------
WELNDMN!WELNDMN!WELNDMNWELNDMN!
ahh screw it call me Mark :D
No matter what you do or say someone will take it too seriously
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network
PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: <alra@pacifier.com> -
http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003
Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com
***CARA Land Grab*** Vote Delayed!
A vote on the CARA Pork Barrel Land Grab was put off until Thursday or
Friday, April 5 or 6!
YOUR EFFORTS moved several Senators into action to defend private
property
rights and fiscal responsibility!!! (see below who some of our
HEROES
are)
YOU HAVE succeeded so far - please keep going for two more days and we
will win another round.
CARA, which would provide over one billion dollars per year to government
agents to condemn private land for almost any reason, from historical
preservation
to baseball stadium construction to more wilderness, was
derailed - for
at least one day.
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's last-minute amendment to add CARA as part
of the Federal Budget guidelines was put off and not introduced on
Wednesday.
However, the Senate debate on the Federal Budget guidelines
will continue
on Thursday and conclude on Friday. The Landrieu CARA
amendment could
be introduced at any time on those two days.
The Landrieu CARA amendment would include room for CARA in the Federal
Budget guidelines being debated this week. It is not a vote directly on
CARA, but a vote on making it part of the budget plan, which would increase
CARA's chances if it is brought up later this year.
"CARA" is the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. However, it should be
called the Condemnation and Relocation Act because of the massive,
unprecedented
land acquisition funding in the bill.
It could also be called the Congressional Abdication of Responsibility Act
because in addition to the land acquisition, it creates a trust fund of
guaranteed money for pork barrel spending projects, mostly for Louisiana.
And guess who wants to load up the federal budget with this disaster -
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Senator Landrieu has decided to say "Take
a Hike" to land owners, because CARA also includes three hundred million
dollars per year for bridges, roads, levee construction, courthouses and
more - whether it is justified or necessary or not - guaranteed for
Louisiana.
That's a pretty good deal, except for the taxpayers of the
other forty-nine
states!
Public works projects are necessary and we all need them. But why should
Louisiana get a special deal at everyone else's expense???
CARA establishes a Pork Barrel Land Grab trust fund - guaranteed money
for
two purposes - land acquisition and pork barrel spending.
Spending for national defense is NOT a trust fund - it is part of the
annual regular appropriations process. So CARA proposes to make land
acquisition and Louisiana pork a higher priority than national defense!!!
OUR HEROES - here are SOME of the Senators who we know are fighting
FOR
private property rights and AGAINST more government lands and wilderness
designations that will result from CARA:
Senator Craig Thomas of Wyoming.
Senator Conrad Burns of Montana.
Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma.
Senator Larry Craig of Idaho.
If you live in their states, be sure and THANK them.
ACTION ITEM:
CALL, FAX AND E-MAIL YOUR SENATORS. The call and fax are best.
DO NOT TAKE ANY SENATOR FOR GRANTED.
Do Not Fail To Make Your Calls - Please!!!
Here is a temporary FREE NUMBER to call any Senator: (800) 648-3516.
EVERY SENATOR MAY BE CALLED AT THE REGULAR CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD
(202) 224-3121.
URGE THEM TO
VOTE NO on the Landrieu CARA amendment! NO land grabs!
Two more days - Thursday and Friday - and we will win another round!
Reasons to fight CARA:
***It creates a trust fund that makes land acquisition a higher priority
than defense spending!
***It includes over a billion dollars per year GUARANTEED to hand over
to
state and federal government agents to condemn private land!
***Land acquisition and condemnation has always been used as a weapon by
the Federal land agencies to regulate and control private landowners.
***CARA could cause hundreds of small communities in existing Federal areas
to be wiped off the map.
***CARA sets aside $3 billion per year, $45 billion over 15 years that does
not have to compete with medical care, education, defense or any other
social need. Most of this money goes for land acquisition.
***It gives money to giant land trusts like the Conservation Fund and
Nature
Conservancy to buy more land and turn it over to government agents.
Of
course, the land trusts make a "profit."
***CARA will destroy farms, ranches, access to minerals and forests and
undermine the economic survivability of resource dependent communities
nationwide.
***CARA will provide millions of Federal dollars to State Game and Fish
agencies to impose many new Endangered Species Act designations and
regulations.
***Access by geologists for exploration, discovery and development of
important
mineral sites will be limited because CARA will enhance large
scale land
closures and the purchase of potential mining properties such as
the New
World Mine in Montana. CARA will cost jobs.
***CARA will undermine the economic ecosystem of rural America. As farms,
ranches, mines, forestry operations and other private property are
purchased
by Federal and state land acquisition, small towns and whole
communities
will begin to wither and gradually die over time.
***The Federal land agencies have purchased over seven million acres of
private land since 1966. Rural America will be damaged beyond repair if
CARA becomes law and funds the acquisition of as much as 20 million more
acres of rural land in and around small towns and communities over the next
15 years.
***With land acquisition funding well over $1 billion per year, the greens
will lobby for more and more before every election. No matter how much
they get, it will never be enough.
***CARA buys private land converting it to Federal land which means a lot
of it will go into new Federal natural management locations and Wilderness
areas where hunters and fishermen have little or no access. CARA should
require no net loss of lands available to hunting.
***Federal land acquisition buys private land and removes it from the tax
rolls thereby increasing the tax burden of other local taxpayers and
reducing
important services such as schools, hospitals and libraries.
***CARA sends hundreds of millions of dollars to the states and local
governments
in a smoke screen for Federal dollar control with strings
attached about
how the money is spent to meet Federal land use planning
goals.
***CARA vastly increases the amount of funds to convert tax paying private
land into over regulated Federal land controlled by the Park Service,
Forest
Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and BLM. This is a bad idea.
Call both your Senators!
Forward this message to at least five other people.
Call five friends and have them call.
------------------
WELNDMN!WELNDMN!WELNDMNWELNDMN!
ahh screw it call me Mark :D
No matter what you do or say someone will take it too seriously