I dont have that kind of money and support network for a US house run, I'm too young for boomers, and I can't willingly destroy my personal values down to the level required to get elected to any position in Eastern Oregon. I'd have to bait-and-switch them and then probably get shot 3 weeks into my term haha.
Mineral rights and land ownership rights are legally distinct. How they are handled varies by location...
The concrete company, by owning the mineral rights, will own any minerals beneath the land surface that are enumerated in the mineral rights deed. (This could be a blanket deed covering any mineral of value, or it could specify only for a certain mineral known to exist there). You, by owning the property surface, own the surface and any buildings, utilities, and infrastructure such installed.
It is a two way street that from both parties. You cannot dig for the minerals yourself, as those are the right of the concrete company; the company also has a right to the minerals under each if they choose to start extracting, and you may or may not be able to legally stop them. But there are legal avenues to restrict how much damage to the land they can do, local environmental and right of way codes, and they can't just demolish existing developments if there's a house, roads, or other improvements on the land.
Source: my mother's family used to own a ranch in Southern California that was long ago sold off and developed. Her family retained the mineral rights to a few hundred acres of that development, under which was found some oil in the early 2000s. A smaller local oil contractor formed separate agreements with the landowners of the surface and to lease the mineral rights from my mother. This ensured them access to agreed upon locations inside the development to set up pump jacks on the surface to extract the oil.
The real answer is going to be "get a lawyer". You need to do a proper deed search to determine who owns the mineral rights and what they enumerate, and if there are any legal restrictions in your jurisdiction that can apply to the extraction of those rights. Once you know who and what, contact the owner of the mineral rights PRIOR to purchase and see if they have future development plans that might impact your decision to purchase, and ask for their legal department so you can draw up a specific contract that controls development of the mineral rights to eliminate future confusion.
My senators are solid progressive democrats so I dont need to message them, and my House representative already bent over with his asshole pre-lubed for Trump on January 6th and ignores all mails I send to him. Damn I wish I had a voice. Oregon moment.
I just donated then $25 too. Couldn't be better timing.
"Wealth" as described in terms of US dollars is just an imaginary accounting measure. And it hasn't really "meant" anything since the death of Bretton-Woods and the removal of the gold standard.
That wealth the richest hold is assets. Physical things. Control of physical things. Control of entire populations and their ability to survive.
The fed could change the accounting to Bitcoin tomorrow and would not change the fact that those top 10 richest men control a vast majority of our nation. But that's not enough, no, they want to control all of it.
Not on the long run, and not by the rules they're playing by now.
Top 10 richest men in America doubled their total wealth during the COVID downturn. From 750bn to 1.5tn. DOUBLED IN TWO YEARS.
Market collapses allow those with the most current assets buy up everyone else's assets at fire sale prices, and raid the government coffers for "bail out" money. They want that scenario to repeat, only now with a much, much deeper, country-wide drop than the temporary Covid bump.
Should have thought about that first you racist troglodyte lmao
Monday market open is going to be a bloodbath. I won't even dare to open my 401k account summary for the next 4 years...
Thank you Canada. We deserve it.
yar har fiddle de dee, being a pirate is alright to be, do what you want because a pirate is free...
So Russia can rig them and manipulate them?
i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.
edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out
alastor sure knows how to party
I have mailed my state rep Bentz in the past. He is such a deep state lost cause it is quite literally not worth my breath speaking to, unless he decides to ever have an in person town hall out here again, in which case I'll call him a Nazi traitor to his face.
The senators I may still contact honestly, since you've mentioned it....