Since the debt is all of the money that was loaned into existence by the Federal Reserve to pay it off would amount to removing all money from the economy and still owing the interest on the debt which would then be impossible to pay off because there would be no money. Asking private enterprise to pay for land the Federal government is not allowed to own is like asking me to buy a car from you that you stole and does not address the debt. The only way to get out of the national debt is to recognize the immorality of fiat currency and declare the debt void because of conspiracy and fraud. Start with a currency that has value and is money. Paying down a fiat currency debt reduces available currency increasing interest (and debt) and continues to confound the average citizen as to why they are enslaved to debt.

Why would this happen?https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/op... McCain is a dirtbag. I am a veteran and he disgusts me. Did you see where he came right out and said "Rand Paul works for Vladimir Putin."? Question everything because that line you are standing in might not be all it is cracked out to be.

Good old-fashioned comedy of the brand-new talkies

Here is a house made of stucco...boy!...will you get stucco.

No smoking sir...
I'm not smoking!
You have a cigar in your mouth.
Yea...got my shoes on too!.. but I'm not walking.

Sounds like a plan to me...

Yeah. Just sell it all off. Hell with it. Then, when there's nothing left to sell off I'll be on a yacht in the Bahamas anyway. Great planning...

I kinda had something else on my mental back burner. It's spelled cocoanuts? Spell checker doesn't like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dgj8...
A Duck Soup Republic may be better. The flick has royalty in it~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw9j...

Thank you for your cooperation.
For a civilian to civilly address our POTUS The Donald as President Trumpet is similar
to a uniformed member of the US Armed Forces saluting his/her Bad Hair Day Commander-In-Chief.
It's oorah oorah yeehaw e pluribus unum, y'all.

Thank you.

Excelent.

Well, my thought was, selling the land for use by the energy and resources sectors, then, when or if the land gets played out, return it to the states...the sectors that made a profit off the land, would no longer have a use for it and it should be up to the states population as to what use the land serve the state best...ie housing, grass lands. industry or maybe recreation.

There is no reason it can't work this way...everyone or more specifically the people make out all the way around.

Naturally the proviso would be no cheating or stealing...it's just an interesting idea right now and would likely get the same push back our new Supreme court judge got from the collective left.

Like CBJ said, the plan would have to be on the back of some serious governmental reforms. Term-limits would make the under the table deals worthless because there's no guarantee the lawmaker would be around to help the crony. Constant fresh butts in the seats mean it would be hard to get the votes necessary to pass turkey and crony legislation. A balanced-budget with no CR's amendment would help as well. The reforms would have to come first.

True...

Maybe...coconuts could take a much harder knock without bruising.

First off READ the Constitution. No seriously READ the Constitution because it is "the Supreme law of the land" article 6 paragraph 2 and in th either part it says that the "10 square miles of Washington D.C." shall be the location of the government with the only exceptions being post and forts and land DEEDED to the federal Government BY the states.You are welcome for the civics lesson.

I would suggest another method: audit the Fed. Let's pull trillions of that funny money back off the market. It was invented in the first place as was the debt it underwrote.

Amen. Like the Malheur Refuge to start...

Agreed. The Federal Government shouldn't own any land outside of Washington, D.C.

This is exactly how to restore freedom, in more ways than one. Now concerning "giving back to the States," I would say that under the Constitution, the federal government must not retain that land anyway. Let me remind everyone: "The Congress shall have the power...to exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over...such lands as may be purchased with the consent of the legislatures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings." Article I, Section 8, Clause 17b. It says nothing about the federal government owning land for mineral or grazing rights.

I can't think of any reason for the government to own any non military assets whatsoever. If selling all of the government's non-military assets would eliminate the debt and return the excess to the people, why not?

The biggest reason I can think of is that much of the proceeds would be stolen, cronies would get under the table deals on prized assets and then they would set out to establish more debt to pay off voters to keep their positions of power.

Harrumph! That's still President Trumpet--To YOU!

Definition fruit-wise, you have me thinking that they ought to change ":banana republic" to "coconut republic."