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All this oil, they won't let you drill it.
All this land, they won't let you build in it.
All these minerals, they won't let you mine it.
All this space, they won't let you farm on it.
All this spending, we have no services.

America is the world's first stupidocracy, although western Europe, Canada and Australia are gaining ground.

Col., are you in the Patch?

Nope down south, but I did see “Sat. Night lights” though. 👍

All good. It took me a while but I finally traveled and worked some in the deep south a few years ago. No matter where you go in the US, there are awesome people and incredible sights. Only state I haven't been to is Hawaii.
Thank you for defending my government destroyed former career. I really enjoy your insights and witty memes, keep up the great work.

If you have land in Texas but someone else owns the mineral rights below the ground, land owners have no rights to say no to the company that forces the mineral owner to drill .. now let's say your neighbor is drilling oil but your not... They are taking part of the oil pocket under your property. Lucky in America the government doesn't own all the mineral rights. But they do control the permits, and regulate the industry.

No, you have surface rights which requires an oil company to compensate you for surface impacts. Depending on the state, mineral extracted such as oil or gas payment is divided between all mineral right owners in that section or other unit. The government owns all mineral rights beneath later homesteads and public land.

And the government should give that back to the Native Americans which should actually own all the rights to minerals in America, but we don't live in that treaty abiding stolen America

which native Americans those that were on the land when whites came or the ones the killed and enslaved and ate 10000 years ago. Native Americans are not all pastoral berry pickers you know.

Don't forget, the native Americans told the evil white people no one owned the land. If no one owned it, how is it stolen?

It was stolen because of the driving out, relocation, and killings that occurred. When you remove someone from their home and kill the food supply off on purpose it's stealing. Sure no one will own nothing because when we die it passes on to the next inhabitants. But today it's still a issue of removal, and overtake of natural resources that were once persevered by the original people's.

Oh kinda like how globalists are killing off the food supply right now in over 100 nations and creating famine and riots?
And kinda like how the Pawnee drove out the Sioux, and the Cheyenne drove out the Shoshone and the Apache and the Navajo and the Arikaree and the Cherokee and the Black Foot and the Crow and the Mohawk and the Massaquoit and the Arapahoe and the Choctaw and the Piute and the Anasazi and the Chippewa and the Muscogee and the Shawnee and the Blackfeet and the Cuyuga and Catawba, and Delaware and Hopi and Comanche and Nez Pierce and Kickapoo, and the Onondaga and Onieda and Chickasaw and winnebago and Seneca and Seminole and more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. They all drove each other off of hunting grounds, wintering grounds and even out of cities in the Southwest. Don't delude yourself, they were as violent as any other mankind to each other, complete with slaves and all the other frills. Nothing really changes but the instruments of war, the mindset remains the same.

At least they knew how to pick their battles.

Cryptic, yet meaningless, non-poetic yet vapid.