Posted on 10/05/2013 12:29:17 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 5, 2013
Obama is wrecking the Florida fishing industry now.
Thursday back in South Florida, a day after limits for the National Institutes of Health made headlines, it was the fear of food drying up and a prohibition on fishing in waters of Florida Bay that took center stage.
Charter guides received a message from the National Park Service this week informing them that they are not permitted to take clients fishing in Florida Bay until the feds get back to work. That means that more than 1,100 square miles of prime fishing is off limits between the southern tip of the mainland to the Keys until further notice.
The closing affects not only fishing guides, but anyone with a license to conduct business in the park, including tour operators and paddling guides — anyone with a Commercial Use Authorization permit, said Dan Kimball, superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas national parks.
Biscayne National Park is also off limits. Enforcement rangers will be on duty, Kimball said.
To point out the obvious: If we’re in a “shutdown,” why are rangers out there at all?
Because, spite.
Capt. Mike Makowski, owner of Blackfoot Charters in Key Largo, estimates this eliminates 60 percent to 70 percent of his hunting grounds.
“This is going to put a lot of guys together in a small area close to the park,” Makowski said. “It’s going to be even worse on the weekend when we’re going to have to compete with the recreational anglers.”
Florida went narrowly for Obama in 2012. May Florida voters learn the lesson that he is now giving to them good and hard.
How can we trust a communist government that closes the Ocean upon running out of money, to also keep Healthcare available when money is short?
For every 1 of the 800,000 federal employees furloughed, there are probably 2 or 3 non-feds affected (at least). And none of them are going to get back pay.
Sandrat, the CURRENT hurricane is named Obama!!!!
The “King” has decreed there’ll be no fishing in his waters.
The bastard is making it hurt just as many people as he possibly can.
Not a chance. It's not called "Floriduh" for nothing. They'd vote for another Rat in a heartbeat.
It’s a crime to take the King’s fish.
That may be, at least in the short term.
But in the long term, aren’t we a lot better off as a nation with a much smaller federal workforce?
And whatever number that is, shouldn’t every one of them be absolutely and demonstrably essential?
What’s next? Astroturfed SEIU-paid protestors against veterans at the DC Memorials??
OH WAIT....
That has already happened...
Every day it’s another thing that should be open to the public. He is showing us just what a wanna be dictator can do. I am seriously afraid is next move will be to declare martial law because people keep going around his barrycades. God help us all.
Oh, agreed. But I see so many comments that suggest it’s only those “evil feds” and that just isn’t true.
The Oval Office is beginning to remind me of the swimming pool in the movie
“Caddyshack”.
The only difference is, that is not a Baby Ruth floating there, it’s the real thing!
King Foot-Stomp the First Decrees The Fish of the Sea Are Not For Thee!!!
no Feds working, no enforcement.
You’re right, it isn’t just the fed employees. The larger the federal footprint, the more lives it affects. That in itself is reason enough to downsize the government.
I suspect the aholes will try and shut down the Interstate Hwy system next.
"Teabaggers" fault, says White House
Interstate Highways "Closed"
"'Teabaggers' getting awfully close to sedition," warned Obama/Holder Department of Just Us
Never thought I’d see true Americans carry out these types of orders against Americans. What person does this? I am thinking twice now about government turning on its people.
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