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Pinon Canyon Expansion
Salazar asks Gates for help on Pinon expansion plan. Reporter: Associated Press |
Pinon Canyon Expansion
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are the people saying go "play in the real dessert" the same people yelling that going to the "real desser" was wrong in the first place.
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Putting a brigade there would mean taking even more land with Eminent Domain. There are no "willing sellers" That's a lie. Salazar will never be reelected if he stabs the ranching community in the back like this. This is some heavy duty political ploy. Is he going to remove the amendment from the bill to wait on the Army response? They can't hold up an appropriations bill like that forever. Where is Allard on this? What're his talking points? It's gone through the House, but what do Musgrave, DeGette, Lamborn, Udall, and the rest have to say? This is ginormous. "No comment" will no longer do. He's talking about the entire net gain from Fort Hood. You can't just take the same money appropriated for the same BRAC number at Fort Carson and apply that to the PCMS with no services, infrastructure, or facilities. It would take a ton more money that the 105 million in the pipe for Carson.
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Salazar's latest "idea" for creating a "win-win" outcome for SE Colorado is preposterous. The idea of replacing a long-term, stable, productive population (which produces invaluable grassfed beef for the nation), which DOES NOT WANT TO BE REMOVED from their generational property, with a transient population of soldiery... is another insult to the citizens of SE Colorado. What part of NO don't they understand? The people down here are fed up with political backdoor moves to block the Salazar- Musgrave amendment from inclusion in the 2008 appropriations bill. We need Senator Salazar to stop muddying the waters, and STAND WITH the people of SE Colorado in opposition to any expansion.
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If they get all that land it would just be wrong. The Army needs to go play somewhere else. Don't they have the entire country of Iraq to play in? Don't anyone give me that freedom garbage as well your all a bunch of conformists brainwashed by our government.
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This Pinon Canyon Expansion serves as yet another prime example of how our government continues to intrude and interfere in innocent lives. The fact that this is even still up for debate is repulsive and supporters of the expansion should be ashamed of themselves. How dare you assume the land is yours for the taking? How dare you think that your need for "realistic desert training" is more important than generations of hard-working American lives? Go train in a real desert! And leave us alone, PLEASE.
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