As you probably have seen, I don't like government involvement. If you have been reading this, you probably don't also. Today's post begins with a little story of a bureaucrat trying to save some ducks. The area DNR hippie-camp (aka 'Outpost') decided a good long time ago that it wanted to save some ducks. To do this, the bureaucrats routinely block the only drainage culvert for the area surrounding my family's home to make a pond for the animals to float around in.
Their policy hasn't changed since the state government, in order to fund its ridiculous handout programs, sold the state forest land between said culvert and my parents property to a logging company. The clear cutting was finished by the fall of 2006 without any consequences (06 was a pretty dry year). The following spring, without the trees acting as a bulwark, the snow-melt flooded a number of private property plots.
The DNR was called at this time and denied that the culvert was blocked...naturally a lie. All in all, the flooding was taken care of by private citizens practicing civil disobedience. Fast foreword to this year: the DNR "Wildlife Biologist" driving his brand new Chevy Impala (which is an insult to the People) acts as if we, the community, were working with him and his ducks to solve our problem. After the call was made and two days passed, I went down to the culvert to find it blocked and locked...another call was made and the matter was resolved three days later.
Ok let's recap: DNR blocks culvert at the command of the Environmentalists, the greedy politicians in Lansing want money to buy votes so they sell the well being of Hamilton to fund this, private property floods and is dealt with at the expense of the private owners, trees die from the flooding, risk of mosquito-transmitted diseases is increased in Hamilton due to the large amount of standing water, and the people pay for it all.
How we stop it? LEAVE IT ALONE. Nature's Maker has made it so we mere humans cannot 'help' the environment. They flood an area for ducks, trees die. They plant trees that grow quickly, their offspring invade and kill natural forests. Politicians take this now destroyed land and turn it into landfills for Canadian garbage so they can fund their Fascist government programs and buy uneducated votes. We cant help the environment, we can just conserve it. The People as a whole do not win, and have never won, when the government is involved. Contest that in a comment if you think it is untrue.
Be brave! I'd like to conclude this post with a quote:
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln (the author of the quote is contested but the virtues are, nonetheless, true)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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