CBS news reports that Congressman Charles Taylor has blocked purchase of land for a flight 93 memorial. His stated reason for blocking the proposal is that the federal government already owns more land in this country than anyone else and does not need to be spending money to buy more land. Congressman Taylor is exactly right. I think that for the federal government to buy any more land, it should be required to sell land of equal or greater value to a private individual, not a corporation, a private individual to raise teh funds for the purchase.
If the people proposing this memorial feel strongly about it, and if the government won't raise the money to purchase the property by selling some of its existing property, then they (the people supporting the memorial) should raise the money for the memorial, purchase the land and create the memorial as a private enterprise.
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