Revenue Found in Selling Federal Properties : Progressive Socialists Balk - 'Nyet'

Again, why would a politician give up a club that they have been using to keep citizens in line all these decades. In truth there isn't any reason to keep and maintain buildings that have no use for the federal government, and given the appetite for revenue, especially the progressives, selling off all these unused building would allow the agents of doom, democrats, to build an even bigger war chest to fight off any opposition in future elections.

Exactly what proportion of the revenue flow from the country actually goes into the democrat coffers is unknown for the most part, but one thing we do know is no matter how much the democrats skim or out right steal, no one cares. The last election saw millions of donations that were undocumented and no one cared

Why is that? Well, they're democrats and everyone just expects them to be corrupt, so stealing tax dollars, laundering election donations or watching our citizens being murdered because it would be bad for their politics, is just business as usual. Many among us don't understand all this stuff, all they care about is having workable thumbs, and the main stream media believes this is a good thing for the country.

When Republicans try this kind of thing, and they do try, the entire weight of the media and the democrat party falls on their collective heads. It's just assumed that Republicans are suppose to be honest and moral, so when the screw up, there has to be consequences for there immoral acations.

Moral judgment always falls on the adults. Criminal and corrupt activities that are attached to the democrats are seen by the media and other democrats that haven't been caught yet as just human nature of unruly children and therefor acceptable.

The fact that the children are ruling the adults now is more then apparent when witnessing the decline of our country into chaos.

Governments Should Privatize Property
Source: "The $9 Trillion Sale," The Economist, January 11, 2014.

January 21, 2014

Governments should look at selling their non-financial assets, says The Economist.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries hold $35 trillion worth of non-financial assets, such as land, buildings and underground resources.

• A 2011 audit found that the United States' federal government owns nearly 1,000,000 buildings, 45,000 of which were underused or not needed at all.
• Greece has 80,000 non-heritage buildings and land plots with unrealized value.
• PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Sweden has state-owned property worth about $100 billion to $120 billion.

Despite this potential for an inflow of cash, governments have been reluctant to raise revenue this way.

• When Ronald Reagan attempted to sell parts of the American West, he faced opposition from green interest groups and ranchers. Similarly, Britain was foiled by environmentalists in 2010 when the country tried to sell some of its land.
• Italy currently has a public-debt burden worth 132 percent of gross domestic product, but it has not embarked upon a bold course of privatization, even though the state has corporate stakes worth $225 billion and $1.6 trillion in non-financial assets.

Privatization allows governments to boost their credit ratings and cut their debts while improving the economy's efficiency. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan used privatization and transformed a number of industries such as telecom and transportation; in the 21st century, leaders should look to doing the same for buildings, land and resources.