[indianahick]

I have heard two different reasons for the selling of this land.
A) To have federal funds for natural disasters such as Katrina. Where the land owners do not have any insurance incase of natural disaster and want the federal government to pay for thier repairs and housing. Since it is the governments fault in not preventing or getting them out of the area.
B) For rural schools to be upgraded. This is mostly in Washington and Oregon region according to what I heard.

I think I would call the second pork barrel and I think that the first should be done in low interest loans that should be paid back. They are selling land here in Indiana for this too.