Isn’t the federal government at the very least supposed to embody the will of it’s people?

I’ve no problem with my nation owning a lot of the land within its borders.

You certainly didn’t make any particular point on the subject but I’d rather we own than one person owns.

My point wasn’t so much about whether it’s right or wrong for private landowners to own that much land. It’s that the western continental US is really big (and empty) as compared to Cyprus or Israel.

Yea, well that’s absolutely a fact I feel acutely whenever I have to cross the darned thing for work!