PL436000@BROWNVM.BITNET (Jamie) (02/07/90)
Mr. McKee avers: > The government is not supposed > to own 42% (yes Jamie it's 42%) of the land in this nation. Give me a break. I don't know where you got this figure. It is, simply, false. You can look this up in the US Statistical Abstract. The most recent year with complete information necessary to calculate the proportion is 1980, and you have to be able to convert square miles to acres. But this is not so difficult. It is astounding that you not only state a figure like this without bothering to check, but that you have so much disdain for empirical evidence that you pointedly reassert it in the face of a dispute. Is it that you think, as in the death penalty debate, that you could find figures on both sides, so why bother? It seems absurd, but I will be happy (not really happy, but willing) to post the relevant figures and cite tables from the US Stats Abstract if anyone asks. Or look it up yourself, it's very easy to do, if you care about that sort of thing. Jamie
mckee@TISSS.RADC.AF.MIL (DAVE MCKEE) (02/08/90)
I shall look it up. And I shall add together local, and state government to it, as I consider them all unde the term "Government". I gave in an early earlier post from where I got the figure (_Restoring The American Dream_) but I'll calculate it for myself, if that'll cool you. And I do not disdain relevant figures. DTM