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Originally Posted by Ohio
You told me it was JFK who stole that Land Between the Lakes from the citizenry. JFK flew over and said it would make a great national park. You told me that the Feds demolished homes when the owners went to church or shopping.
What did MMc promise, and why could he not deliver? Did the Dems block him like they do on everything else?
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You've got a keen memory bro Ohio. And yes, JFK was behind driving the folks off their lands to make Land between the Lakes National Recreation Park. I think we should do the same for the Kennedy compound.
I short, TVA was used because they had the power of eminent domain. TVA sold the idea to congress by promising a demonstration of how a natural park would be a boon to all business outside the park ; that there would be no commercial businesses inside the park. The demonstration failed.
So TVA was planning on selling it to Japan, and Disney was going to put one of its parks there. The folks from between the rivers rose up, and TVA got the boot and the Forest Service took over the park.
The LBL Protection Act was negotiated between Mitch (R-Ky), congressman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky) -- since forced to resign over ethics violations -- and the people from between the rivers. What was crucial to the people between the rivers was the keeping of what was termed "The Promise." The promise was that there would be no commercial enterprise in LBL. That was important to them because if a profit was going to be made in LBL they should be they ones profiting.
Mitch and Whitfield agreed that The Promise would be part of the LBL protection Act. It wasn't. The Forest Service says they never made such a promise. And since commercialization of LBL has been growing, and people from between the rivers can't stop it.
But at least Japan didn't get it, and Disney didn't setup, no thanks to Mitch and Whitfield, only to the people that rose up against it.
In short bro Ohio, it wasn't the pubbies that took the land from my family on both sides, but that damn demmie JFK. Still, it's been a bi-partisan screwing. And I suppose that's one good reason that politically I'm a mugwump.