Urban Myths v. Rural Reality
by JIM BEERS
So Obama’s “regulations” “are not tanking the economy”? Tell that to small towns, loggers, ranchers, local governments, state governments, rural recreationists, dog owners and rural property owners all across America.
Obama and his Czars entered into a 40-year old conquest of rural America begun with the Endangered Species Act, The Animal Welfare Act, elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to the status of a Russian Central Committee, the Wilderness Act, Roadless Area expansions on federal lands, and the steady absorption of state and local jurisdictions as federal land acquisition and easement (through paid cooperators like The Nature Conservancy) spreads nationally. Miles and miles of timber railroad cars rust and lie on sidings broken only by gravel roads into the homes of unemployed rural residents. Wolves are ravaging the countryside, ranches, big game herds, hunting, and the “domestic Tranquility” our federal government was formed to assure. Obama has accelerated this deterioration of rural America 10-fold.
Extinct birds (woodpeckers) are falsely claimed to justify more acquisition and private property taking without compensation. Suckers. smelt and salmon are used by Obama underlings to breach dams, destroy irrigation farming, load streams with billions of tons of silt, and raise electricity costs precipitously. Secret wolf plans and lies to Congress hide plans for more wolves and grizzly bears to destroy more hunting, more animal husbandry and agriculture, and to accelerate rural flight by those that can afford it. Vehicle manufacture and design are less and less rural-life friendly thanks to government controls. The federal government is attempting to claim ownership of “ALL (and they mean all) Waters” everywhere in the Nation. Suppression of oil development, gas development, and exploration keeps gas prices intolerable for rural Americans whose jobs, families, and home life become increasingly expensive to maintain. The list goes on and on.
Al of these “wise guy” pundits should stick to urban (progressive) subjects. Their knowledge of rural America is like the Upper Platte River late in a dry summer, “a mile wide and an inch deep”.
Jim Beers
8 December 2011
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Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.
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