Posted on 06/02/2011 8:23:22 AM PDT by CNSNews
(CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, told a UN energy conference in 2009 that a global wealth redistribution program was needed to keep poor people in developing countries from using their own forest resources.
“What we’ve got to do is find ways to map out the affected lands, to develop plans for addressing them, find economic models in which the people who are driven to do these things to try to raise the livelihoods of their families, find alternative means,” Bryson said in laying out his vision for stopping people in poor countries from cutting down forests.
“Training of peoples, to maybe help in supporting this, development of law enforcement regimes, development of strong governance practices, all of those things have to be done,” Bryson continued.
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While preserving forests might be a good idea, what the HELL does that have to do with being the Commerce Secretary?
Does that mean we're engaged now?
Maybe! LOL
I’ll have to notify my wife, then, and convert to Mormonism.
LOL - and I’ll have to notify my husband but I’m staying Baptist!
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