Yep, Zeke, your right again, as you usually are.
The "Give Me" strategy is: Ask for 5 million acres, then, after fighting and fighting and fighting for the 5 million, you decide you'll settle down, if they'll "Just Give You A measly 750,000 acres.
Then they'll claim we're greedy if we can't give then just 750,000, after all they backed off from the 5 million they originally asked for. "A paltry 750,000 acres is hardly a drop in the bucket." Then they'll plead to the general public, explaining how greedy and mean we are because we "can't even give a tiny little bit, for future generations". When in fact, they had nothing to begin with, no right to anything, no reason for closing access in any way shape or form, and we end up looking like the mean, greedy ones.
They get the 750,000, which was the plan in the beginning. Then, two years later, they start the process all over again. In the end, they nip away everything, until there's nothing of value left.
The tried and true "You've got everything, surely you can spare a dime, in the name of humanity", trick.
It works every time. We know exactly what they're doing and are we too unorganized to do a damn thing about it. And we wonder why we worry about the Feds. managing public lands!
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