The Politics of Fire

The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 24, 2002

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Western Democrats have suddenly never heard of the Sierra Club.

President Bush took a break from cleaning up cedar trees on his Texas ranch to visit fire-wracked Oregon and announce a new plan to clean up forests everywhere else. You know that environmental politics have turned upside down when a Republican President can send the Sierra Club heading for the tall timber.

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[bybybill]

Sometimes Tiny Tom is really stupid. I do have to thank the little guy for giving us a great issue. Maybe we can go back to working in the Oregon woods.

[crz]

Thank God Almighty! I think that we in the Timber Industry are about to be finally listened to. Over 7 trillion dollars in lost revenues have been left to burn on USFS land in the last 10 years. Then you can figure in the supporting industry and you will come to a figure that boggles the mind. We could have paid off the national debt, paid for medical insurance for those who can not afford it, paid back social security the money stolen from it by the liberals and still had some left over.