DENVER — Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn is asking Colorado's senators, both Democrats, to help save the Army's plan to expand a training site in the southeast corner of the state.
Lamborn said Friday that Colorado could lose the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site expansion project because of opposition from ranchers and some elected officials.
This is not a money maker for the people of Colorado, no matter what the government claims. Raising cattle for food is actually a useful and productive. Letting the land go to waste so a bunch of bureaucrats can blow things up, does nothing to improve the wealth of the nation or improve the standard of living for most people. The thing that we have to remember whenever someone from the government is making claims of economic benefits from this government program or that government program is that the government has no money of their own, so any economic benefits we may see comes only at the expense of people elsewhere. Besides the government already owns 36.6% of Colorado and more in other western states, why do they think they need more? If anything we need the federal government to own less of Colorado, so the people of the state can make productive use of those lands.
Here is a great map that shows how much land the governmet owns or is in control of in each state.
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