When The Fufeng Group, an animal nutrition supplier, bought a mere 370 acres of North Dakota farmland in 2022, it made news because the land was near the Grand Forks Air Force Base.
One can make several comments about ownership of American land by foreigners (CCP) and enemies (Bill Gates), the first of which is that it ought to be outlawed, period.
As to foreigners owning land, both pros and cons exist. The pro is that the money we send to China for goods we refuse to produce, is recycled here and re-invested in our land. The con is similar to the 1970s reaction in Oregon of Californians moving there and pricing Oregonians out of their own housing, enabled by the real estate and housing boom in CA, which gave rise to the bumper sticker “Don’t Californicate Oregon.”
The solution was demonstrated by many countries in S America in the 1960s, when they expropriated American companies and land in a massive “Yankee Go Home” campaign.
We’ve got China’s money. Time to expropriate the land.
As to enemies like Mr. Gates, subject of the current book “The Gates of Hell. Why Bill Gates is the Most Dangerous Man in the World,” simply go back to homesteading laws: if you don’t improve make use of the land, it reverts to the previous owner; in the 19th C, that was the Feds. Today, it can be the farmer from whom this enemy bought the land. Said farmer gets the land back and keeps the money to pay the grift congress applies to it. Gates is leaving it fallow as he wants us to eat fake meat and bugs as he destroys our middle class.
Either, of course, would require an intelligent, pro-American government, the lack of which ought to be an even larger concern and cause for action.
Those land owners are plicks!
One can make several comments about ownership of American land by foreigners (CCP) and enemies (Bill Gates), the first of which is that it ought to be outlawed, period.
As to foreigners owning land, both pros and cons exist. The pro is that the money we send to China for goods we refuse to produce, is recycled here and re-invested in our land. The con is similar to the 1970s reaction in Oregon of Californians moving there and pricing Oregonians out of their own housing, enabled by the real estate and housing boom in CA, which gave rise to the bumper sticker “Don’t Californicate Oregon.”
The solution was demonstrated by many countries in S America in the 1960s, when they expropriated American companies and land in a massive “Yankee Go Home” campaign.
We’ve got China’s money. Time to expropriate the land.
As to enemies like Mr. Gates, subject of the current book “The Gates of Hell. Why Bill Gates is the Most Dangerous Man in the World,” simply go back to homesteading laws: if you don’t improve make use of the land, it reverts to the previous owner; in the 19th C, that was the Feds. Today, it can be the farmer from whom this enemy bought the land. Said farmer gets the land back and keeps the money to pay the grift congress applies to it. Gates is leaving it fallow as he wants us to eat fake meat and bugs as he destroys our middle class.
Either, of course, would require an intelligent, pro-American government, the lack of which ought to be an even larger concern and cause for action.