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Carrots, Anyone? Our money to be used to buy up private property US Fish & Wildlife Service's latest carrot is $85,700,000 - almost NINETY MILLION DOLLARS -- to states for 'endangered species conservation.' Newly appointed FWS Director Steve Williams proudly parrots, "Local involvement is the cornerstone of conservation success." That is so unimpressive, if only it weren't OUR MONEY that Mr. Williams and Company is waving under the noses of fifty Governors and their hirelings! The very decisions made by Americans that forged our great country from the fires of revolution against English monarchy seem to no longer be enough. Rather than continue building upon the experience of being the longest-lived republic (that's right, I didn't say democracy), we've been suckered into something that's a sideshow barker with a shell game, just on a much larger scale. Farmers, ranchers, miners, fishermen, loggers - who don't log 'old growth timber for toilet paper - all these honorable and learned cultures provide resources that sustain us all. We are all consumers. Some of us also provide resources that we consume. That extra measure of responsibility has not created endangered flora and fauna. The contrived crisis that we are told needs mega-millions to 'band-aid' is not a crisis at all, but a nest-featherer for those who sling mud at the truth in order to avoid accountability and unemployment. Let's cut the bribery and cherish those who deserve the freedom to protect ALL species: our resource providers! Give our $85 ½ Million back, Mr. Williams! We'll buy our own carrots! Julie Kay Smithson 213 Thorn Locust Lane London, OH 43140-8844 1-740-857-1239 www.nodarbyrefuge.0catch.com (it's a zero, not a capital "O") |
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