IDIOTS !!!

Land sale plan tilted in Northwest's favor

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Writer | March 4, 2006

WASHINGTON --More than a quarter of the $800 million the Bush administration plans to raise by selling national forest would benefit rural schools in Oregon and Washington, though just 6 percent of the sales would occur in those forest-rich states.

Why in the richest nation on earth is there a need to sell public lands? Isn't it enough that logging and mineral rights are often leased at below market prices? Set aside the question of "should", why wouldn't the revenue generated by forest sales stay with in the region?