Posted on 06/27/2002 2:46:02 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
And for free no less.
What is it going to take.........????????????
D.C. is broken, it cannot be mended, the States need to repeal the Amendments to the constitution that took their power and take authority back from D.C.
The only thing that is going to save the Republic at this late date, given our razor thin time frame, is not Judical appointments, but disbanning Judical courts and bleeding the power away from D.C.. It can be done if enough people get off their hind ends and demand it on the steps of their state capitals.
Isn't Bush the Commander-in-Chief?
Your tax dollars hard at work.
Why does that not surprise me? They are merely a mirror image of corporate America who are now struggling to make a profit. Bogged down by bureaucratic BS., decisions being made by managers who are afraid to make decisions without first consulting their superiors and thus creating an atmosphere of an ineffectual cluster %&$*! The ones who know how to truly deal with their problem are hard at work with the shovels.......
Thank you for the ping, even though it was a double.
Upon learning of the Forest Service decision, Kent McNaughten, a resident of Crystola, declared, "I'm a homeowner in the area threatened by this fire. The Forest Service calls it a 'monster.' I'm incensed that the Forest Service has decided to fight the fire with one hand tied behind their back. They're fighting a bear with a peashooter. They needed a rifle, and when it was offered, they declined it."
Exaclty! I am completely dumbfounded that someone would refuse the solution because they thought it would cause too much damage.
Duh! As if the fire wasn't going to cause any damage.
Some people don't even have the brains of a rock, let alone an animal.
If I disapear from FR, its because a can't post in a straight jacket.
It so happened that another truck with a back-hoe in tow came upon the accident a few minutes later. The owner offered to unload the back-hoe and put a line around the fire since it hadn't grown very large at that point. The Marine-Fisheries-Wildlife guy, who was on hand with all the other feckless bureaucrats wouldn't let him because they didn't want vehicle tracks on this pristine wasteland.
The result was that the fire got away, burned over a hundred-thousand acres, twenty some-odd buildings, countless animals and especially elk who were trapped by an elk-fence some 50 miles to the East. Plus, habitat that is just now starting to recover.
So much for the Harvard/Yale educated fools that these bureaucracies hire. Very Stupid!!!!!!
Anything to help people lose their property or sign up for federal government "help".
It's not only surreal; it's dumb. Who better that mine-construction workers to know the terrain and the best ways to meet the challenges? Or Army tank personnel who are trained to solve access problems very quickly?
Wise government officials (oxymoron?) would be using the construction equipment and engineers, and the Army assets in the neighborhood, and fighting this national emergency. Instead of trying to blame the tree huggers for the fire, they should just get in there and deal with it.
The States need to take over these lands in their States to put some accountability back into the scene. Local politicians will feel the heat and will come down on the bureaucrats. Of course, the real solution is to privatize the land. Whatever it takes to get it out of the hands of the Feds.
Notice that these fires over the past few years do not occur east of the Mississippi, where the Feds hardly have any land. Co-incidence? NO!
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