Posted on 10/12/2009 6:28:16 AM PDT by backhoe
It's nice that we preserved Yosemite and other pristine areas. I've heard folks say that such places of beauty should be preserved so that ALL Americans can enjoy them. Of course, the designation limits development, limits access and generally LIMITS the number of Americans who can reasonably go and experience these places of beauty. So the whole thing is somewhat misleading.
Now, I'm not necessarily opposed to National Parks. But these would fall into the category of "The Commons" and our government basically placed them off to the side and said "We need to limit how much you will use these places". A lot of folks think that's good. Maybe it is.
What the government is doing now is going to your favorite place to fish -- a place which you would assume falls into "The Commons" and is throwing you out. No fishing for you, you peasant! We need to preserve this area for ALL Americans -- so get out!
Thanks- information's appreciated.
We are on the coast, and one of the spookiest things I just saw?
The first line of boats for sale at a dealer I drive by every day has "bank repo" signs- on all of them.
Totalitarians tend to come up with the same solutions.
Back in the 80's we were swamped with folks needed help in either food or gifts for the kids.
I suspect the same will be true this year.
These are folks who are not the regular customers. They often tell us that they will be able to get the food together to cover dinner, but could use a little help getting the kids something for Christmas.
Amazing thing is we did not need the government to tell us what to do. We do it because it is the right thing to do.
Are you sure Soros didn’t just drop trou?
bump for later
The list, ping
Did the Utah folks get undone the executive order Clinton did just before he left office that placed a huge amount of the state into some sort of nationalized entity?
flashback:
LOST
[As the advisors talked among themselves debating whether the administration should sign the treaty as it stood or demand changes, the President sat by silently and listened. With the debate raging, suddenly the President's voice was heard to say, "Isn't that what it was all about?"
Debate stopped as everyone looked over to the President. "What, sir?" Reagan then repeated his statement. "Isn't that what it was all about -- the election? Doesn't it mean that we dont have to sign these things?"
The group realized that President Reagan had just cut through all of the debate and stated the real issue. His administration had been elected to defend American sovereignty and independence, and that changes in a bad treaty didn't have to be negotiated. He could just refuse to sign and kill it right then and there. Ronald Reagan understood that he was the President of the United States and not a captive of someone elses power grab.
And the Law of the Sea Treaty remained justifiably dead for the next 12 years until Bill Clinton pulled it out of the trash bin, dusted it off and signed it. Then, in the spirit of Reagan, a courageous Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, bottled it up until the Clintonistas were driven from power.]
flashforward:
LOST and Found
[LOST -- the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law of the Sea Treaty -- regulates all things oceanic, from fishing rights, navigation lanes and environmental concerns to what lies beneath: the seabed's oil and mineral wealth that companies hope to explore and exploit in coming years.
But critics say the treaty, which declares the sea and its bounty the "universal heritage of mankind," would redistribute American profits and have a reach extending into rivers and streams all the way up the mighty Mississippi.
The U.N. began working on LOST in 1973, and 157 nations have signed on to the treaty since it was concluded in 1982. Yet it has been stuck in dry dock for nearly 30 years in the U.S. and never even been brought to a full vote before the Senate.
But swelling approval in the Senate and the combined support of the White House, State Department and U.S. Navy mean LOST may be ready to unfurl its sails again.
Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a January confirmation hearing that he intends to push for ratification. "We are now laying the groundwork for and expect to try to take up the Law of the Sea Treaty. So that will be one of the priorities of the committee, and the key here is just timing -- how we proceed."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying the treaty is vital for American businesses and the Navy, told Kerry that his committee "will have a very receptive audience in our State Department and in our administration."
LOST apportions "Exclusive Economic Zones" that stretch 200 miles from a country's coast and establishes the International Seabed Authority to administer the communal territory farther out. The treaty's proponents say it clears up a murky legal area that has prevented companies from taking advantage of the deep seas' wealth.]
note the negative Dhimmi theme throughout
everything when they're in control.. *sigh*
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Every single day I wake up thinking they can’t do anything else to shock me....and every single day they do.
The pent up anger and outrage is starting to well over. These people are destroying the lives for all of us and our children.
When will it stop? I can hardly read this stuff anymore.
“A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America.”
And of course, because of one of Obama’s czars, the liberal Cherokee woman, the ‘tribes’ will be exempt to waste all the fish they can! Enough of this tribal crappola!
Here’s one that will have a huge impact on Michigan.
Yes they are destroying the lives of people and their children. And as the leftist aka progressives will chant. They are doing it to save the planet.
Arent these the very people that live under the evolution theory? Is not what is taking place on the planet called evolution. How are they going to stop evolution?
The Great Lakes Czar head a group that wants to move people back from the water all across the great lakes basin. Since all the water in Michigan flows into the great lakes they would have to get pretty much all of us out of the state.
THREAD BUMP.
This smells of UN big time as well as Obama of course, he’s a Marxist.
Also, in case you folks haven’t figured it out yet, we don’t have until 2012. Ain’t gonna happen.
After the fishing industry’s destruction, hunting will be next and you’ll be moved off your land. Study your history. Maybe you’ll enjoy those ACORN types moving into your house.
Correct me if I'm wrong--didn't most of the Great Lake states vote for this clown?
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