lofty ideals of peace in the region plus to help our nation paid out of the debt utah governor gary herbert wants to sell his state authorized grover better we see in the final days of america's economy and the g.o.p. have started a new battle the war on arts it's a nice daily take out tell you how their new plans to bring back the story. earlier this week we commented on the highlight of the comments of florida congressman dennis ross of suggested that utah should sell off huge tracts of its public light of private corporations to solve our nation's fiscal woes i think that a congressman from florida would think twice about telling another state what they should do with their public lands and you think that the governor of utah would sell ross to go mind his own business but that's not what happened and said utah governor gary herbert loved the idea is that he had to say about it a news conference yesterday. i think is certainly worth exploring i don't think we're going to. you know our national parks and pristine areas because lovely could be privatized and helped the definition so is thi

but that's not what happened and said utah governor gary herbert loved the idea is that he had to say about a news conference yesterday. i think it should really worth exploring i don't think we're going to you know our national parks and some of those pristine areas because a lot of land could be privatized and helped reduce the deficit so is this the beginning of the end for our commons in america is the wholesale sell off of america begun to give us the details on this issue. border a blogger with think progress said welcome back thanks for having me tom the sell off of utah first of all is going to go anywhere first of all i like to say they hope not because they've been talking about this for years we always have a crazy right wing a brain the idea of people in utah are like you know what are you talking about we love our products we love our mountains we love you know our pristine public land it's always been a legacy of you since its inception and it's a gigantic portions of publicly is that people from all over the country love to come and visit and you know the idea of privat

governor gary herbert signed the bill effective on may tenth two thousand and eleven making it possible for folks to buy groceries guns and even gasoline with coal and you might be wondering how this would actually work and me too but the important thing is that freedom has been significantly increased and we will get to see what the market that is the cumulation of all the needs of consumers leads to in terms of practical alternative currency rad galavis the republican state representative responsible for this bill has stated this is not an attempt to return to the gold standard quote we're too far down the road to go back to the gold standard but this will move us toward an alternative currency so in utah they're not even going to wait for the feds to try to come up with something new when the dollar collapses this is an awesome assertion of states' rights yes i know stands don't have rights only individuals but in addition the sale of precious metals will get a free pass on state capital gains tax now uncle sam still gets a cut on the federal level but from those who aren't rich enou

gary herbert said -- quote -- "not a state in this nation is immune to tough budget decisions and sometimes washington makes it even harder. utah must seriously weigh the real cost of medicaid, one of the largest and most expensive programs we have. unfortunately, federal mandates tie our hands. utah has zero flexibility to respond to economic conditions or the option to scale the program back in a way that reflects local values and priorities. unquote. governor herbert and many other governors across the nation have repeat lid asked washington to repeal these onerous medicaid mandates. we have just introduced legislation, the state flexibility act, that you've mentioned so kindly to do exactly what the governors have asked. the state flexibility act fully repeals these burdensome m.o.e. regulations. it starts to put states back in control to balance their budgets while simultaneously lowering federal entitlement spending. now, our legislation will save taxpayers $2.8 billion over just the first five years. that's a lot of money. regardless of political affiliation, i'm confident that this