What a racket.
For a bureaucrat, failure is job security.
“What a racket” isn’t quite correct.
As BigGov takes from all to support EnviroSocialists, wouldn’t “extortion” be a more accurate term?
Here in FloriDUH, even after the DNA proved that all puma in Florida were “genetically homogeneous”, and specifically stated “the fifteen previously identified sub-species are not affirmed”, Floriduh is continuing to buy land for “critical habitat” for the “Endangered Florida Panther”.
ESA is the mechanism for “confiscation of lakes, rivers, forests, and mineral deposits” - which comes from the following quote from William Z. Foster, National Chairman Communist Party USA.
“The establishment of an American Soviet government will require the confiscation of large landed estates in both town and country, and the entirety of lakes, rivers, forests, and mineral deposits.”
Yes, Virginia, those are Communists.
They try to pass themselvves off as “wildlife biologists” and “environmentalists”, they look like officials in uniforms or hippies in hiking boots - but their agenda is communism.
As America was created as a land of private land owners, those involved in increasing government land ownership beyond the carefully limited Constitution defined Federal lands are guilty of treason.
Collectivism(such as collectivly owned lands not described in the Constitution) in America is antithetical to the Constitution and is irreconcilable with the Constitution.
Yes, Virginia, it is treason.