How Much Does Each Beetle Receive?
In the August 26 online edition of CNS News one headline, let us know that our magnanimous federal government had awarded $ 5.8 million to protect insect habitat.
Since no population figures were provided for the insect recipients, it is impossible to know how much was received by each.
One guess would be that no insects were recipients but a good guess would be that each member of the EPA crew in the receiving state received a bonus.
All humor aside, why is the government protecting insects while thousands of children go to be hungry every night, or streetwalkers in Detroit sleep in abandoned cars or the homeless in Butte, Montana sleep in a cardboard box?
It is long past time to call a halt to the obscene largesse being tossed to the four winds by a broken economy.
The $5.8 million id only a small portion of the total of 48 Grants totaling $53.3 million so freely spent by the Department of the Interior to, “to develop conservation plans, purchase, or preserve land determined to be habitat for species that have been listed as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.” (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/beetlemania-feds-give-maryland-24m-prote)
There is no doubt that Ken Salazar is as thorough as was his “Give it back to the Indians” predecessor, Dirk Kempthorn who turned the National Bison Range over to the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe without receiving a thin dime in compensation. Giving away that which does not belong to them accrues to them kudos from the recipients and another photo-op in one of the environmentalist rags.
The EPA is spending and regulating us into bankruptcy and preventing our petroleum industry from drilling for much needed oil in places like ABWR in Alaska simply because a ‘Porcupine’ Caribou MIGHT be harmed.
God gave Man dominion over all the animals and other creatures. The DOI and the EPA are doing their worst to reverse God’s edict. Salazar and Lisa Jackson are generous to a fault with your dollars. Time to rein them in.
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