Posted on 12/24/2004 7:55:44 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on the Bush Administration's new land management planning regulations for national forests, which were announced this afternoon:
"The regulations released by the Bush Administration today are an insult to every American who cares about our national forests. By greatly weakening critical protections, the regulations will increase the exploitation of our natural resources by private companies without ensuring the survival of the forests for future generations.
"The Administration's draft rule, issued two years ago, was roundly and rightly criticized as a giveaway to corporate timber, mining, and oil interests. Apparently, the Bush Administration took that as encouragement, ignoring repeated requests to let scientists offer input into the new rules. The Administration instead pushed ahead with its plans to reduce the role of scientists and the public in managing our national forests, and the environment will pay the price.
"The national forests belong to the American people, but these regulations were written with the special interests, not the public interest, in mind. The Administration should go back to the drawing board."
And the extension of government ownership is what mainly distinguishes Socialism from other schemes for the improvement of man's lot in society: Socialists would nationalize productive property.
Into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats would come all titles to property; government would be the sole employer, and as the only employer, government would assign a task to each citizen and lay down the terms on which men would hold their jobs.
If this sounds like the army, it is because Socialism is in fact a militaristic organization of society. Socialism involves a command type of operation and, because "whosoever controls a man's subsistence controls the man," a socialist society becomes a minutely regulated bureaucratic tyranny. - Edmund A. Optiz, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.
We have been voted into office for more than a decade and consider their whining?
Wasn't there a little reported fire in Alaska this year that burns millions fo acres? When I first moved to Colordo from Tennessee I went up into the National Forest here and was amazed had how much undergrowth there was and how closely together the trees grew. We have fires here every year some of them really bad.
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That said; she's a flaming liberal with less brains than a pine needle. (Not as pretty either!)
Gee, Nancy, what are future generations going to do when a tree dies? It won't be around for them to admire. Ain't life cruel?
Can we expect this philosopher to present a statement outlining what the public interest actually is? We are all supposed to know what special interest is, they must be teaching that in the public schools.
Hey Nancybeotsch. Go to Show Lo AZ and spew this. Or even closer to home.
After the San Bernardino fires, Nancy Pelosi and her dependent claque of green fascists pose the gravest single threat to forest health.
message from ken to nancy:
your democrat left is a special interest.
Feinswine may deserve your ire for other issues, but on the matter of using timber harvesting to improve forest health she has actually come down on the right side on several occasions, particularly with the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group legislation.
Liberal special interest groups don't count, you see, even if they go against the beliefs of the majority of the American people.
BTTT!!!!!!
By overregulating the national lands, Pelosi will take meat off of the tables of American hunters, increase the mortgage debt of American homeowners by increasing construction material expenses, and steal the paychecks of thousands of American timberworkers.
Feinstein is not entirely evil; she is right on a few issues.
The Organic Act of June 4, 1897, (30 Stat. 34-36; codified U.S.C. vol. 16, sec. 551), amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriations Act, stated that the purpose justifying establishment of the forest reserves was for securing a continuous timber supply and favorable water flows.
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