Government must sell off buildings

We were a capitalist nation until the Marxists immigrated to the United States from Europe and infected the population of the weak minded, the lazy and the stupid, with the idea that some would work and some would invest and the rest would profit.

Now have a coalition of the weak minded, the lazy and the stupid, who have voted these leaders into power over and over and it doesn’t seem to be just one party. It started when Teddy Roosevelt took lands the states were letting homesteaders settle and made it the property of the federal government. He convinced the population they needed national parks and they had to turn all the unsettled land over to him, so the government could make the parks.

They started right away to build buildings and once they own one, it stays in GSA ownership forever, whether they use it or not. Today 45,000 buildings are empty and the taxpayers pay an army of “workers” to maintain them, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars every year.

Once government gets its hands on anything, they just accumulate more and more. Unless we make them divest all they own and let it be purchased by investors, they will have title to everything and we will have to rent the property we worked for, from the government.

The only property any government should be allowed to own is the Capitol, the White House and The Pentagon. All other property should have to be sold and rented back on an as-needed basis and the need should be reassessed every year.

Local city halls, fire stations, courthouses, roads and all “government owned” property should be sold and rented as needed, just as the federal government should have to do. Eminent domain should be used infrequently and never just to profit the friends of some politician.

Wilton Jere Tidwell

Huntley