Developers pull plans for New Mexico ghost town

All the lumber, all the oil, gas, all the coal, all of it...belongs (or should) to us all. It's OUR stuff. If someone doesn't plant it and water it and fertilize it, then it doesn't belong to them. If it was there before this country was formed, it doesn't belong to anyone...it belongs to Everyone.

Same with the moon - or an asteroid if we ever manage to land on one and find it's solid gold. The idea that the first own there should own it is preposterous. Oh, and if we do find one made of gold, it will be amusing as hell to watch as the price plummets.

Yes, if extraction costs money in materials and labor, the operator should receive part of the value of the extracted material. But ALL of us should get the lion's share. It's OUR resource, OUR wealth. Men and women died in battle to protect OUR wealth, and the idea that a few old white men should or control it because they were here first and/or lied & cheated is obscene.

By the way, WE have enough natural gas - which doesn't require nearly as much effort to extract as much of the oil - to fuel every car and truck at low cost for 75 to 100 years. Buying oil from overseas is crazy. It enriches bad or at least questionable people, it requires us to fight wars, it makes millionaires out of cowards and widows out of the ordinary man.

If that's the American Way, then we need a new America or a new Way.

These are exactly the kind of endeavors that politicians like to get tangled up with. Just take a good look at what happened over in Iraq with the 100 Million in US Iraqi money that was lost, squandered, stolen. The military as diligent and process needy as they are hired a fake company to manage the money. The owner of the company lives in san diego somewhere. The address of the company is a PO box in the bahamas or something of the sort that has been used time and time again for scams. No one bothered to check that the company didn't even have employees. The guy and his wife declined commenting other than they knew nothing other than having ownership of the crooked company. Where'd all the money go? Accroding to the general in charge "I don't know and I don't care, it was their money". There are pictures of pallets of money that was shipped with US soldiers guarding it. Why do you have to ship cash to a place like that? Why not simply wire it? Unless your plan is to simply steal it all back somehow.

Corrrupt, corrupt, corruption is all I see in this little ghost town project along with the crazy spacepork.

dropthebiatch already wrote:

These are exactly the kind of endeavors that politicians like to get tangled up with. Just take a good look at what happened over in Iraq with the 100 Million in US Iraqi money that was lost, squandered, stolen. The military as diligent and process needy as they are hired a fake company to manage the money. The owner of the company lives in san diego somewhere. The address of the company is a PO box in the bahamas or something of the sort that has been used time and time again for scams. No one bothered to check that the company didn't even have employees. The guy and his wife declined commenting other than they knew nothing other than having ownership of the crooked company. Where'd all the money go? Accroding to the general in charge "I don't know and I don't care, it was their money". There are pictures of pallets of money that was shipped with US soldiers guarding it. Why do you have to ship cash to a place like that? Why not simply wire it? Unless your plan is to simply steal it all back somehow.
Corrrupt, corrupt, corruption is all I see in this little ghost town project along with the crazy spacepork.

I think you meant 100 BILLION.

If you owned oil or defense stocks, or had an interest in a mercenary brokerage, you made out like a bandit. Everyone else watched as the deficit skyrocketed, gas cost more, sons and daughters got maimed and killed, and the GOP rode a wave of profitable patriotism.

Some people call that the American Way. And those people ought to be ashamed... but never are. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy....the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Only in America!

Everyone should be like us. What's all this religious stuff? Worship material things like we do here.

Money and those with it are the true Gods in this country. People go to churches with images of Christ on the walls to deflect attention away from their avarice. This irony is not lost on those who know what irony is.