🚀 go-pugleaf

  Just a quick reminder; The Endangered Species Act is being
  re-written as we speak.  The man is charge is Tracy, Ca rancher
  Rep Richard Pombo who was hand selected for his activistic 
  anti-environmental record.  You know what to do now, -- and we know
  that we will have to mark him for an expensive de-election campaign 
  if he acts according to plan.
   
  Please save money, species, and a big hassle, please act now!
  --Douglas Bashford
  --SAFE

   Yep, Andrea L wrote on 28 Feb 95  20:14:11 
    about:   Re: Species Act redefined:

A> todd@dsp.com,Internet writes: 
 >It
 >is quite improper for the property buyers to hold out their hands and
 >expect the public to reimburse them for having made such a huge error
 >in estimating the value of the property they bought.
 
 >The same reasoning applies when the land-use laws are intended to
 >protect the air, water, and wildlife that affect the health and
 >investments of neighbors in a given area.

A> Real estate is an investment and investments have risks. You should
A> not expect the government to pay for those risks. It makes absolutely
A> no sense whatsoever for taxpayers to foot the bill on property that
A> cannot be used due to the ESA. Besides, the ESA has, in reality, had
A> LITTLE impact on development. It's just that we keep hearing from
A> groups like Wise-use who make something out of nothing. 

  That is the reality.  Like death by lightening, it makes a very big 
  noise and is very rare.  From two or six cases nation wide, all this 
  noise.  My, how well fear and paranoia sells when backed by big money!

  I believe that we have made the case ad pukem with their very own 
  literature that the so called "Property Rights Movement" is 
  a high dollar scam who's real goal is welfare for the rich
  and sucking the taxpayer dry. --  Parasites. --  That is fact.  
  They are NOT whom they claim to be.  No amount of squawking, 
  demagoguery, or fear mongering can change that fact.

  This does not mean that there are not abuses by local administrators.  
  However, existing law covers them as recent Supreme Court rulings 
  have proven.  They are NOT the fault of the law, but those local
  power-trippers who are themselves breaking the law.  Let's not all 
  go crazy and start shooting at fleas with shotguns!

A> The reality, in
A> fact, is in NOT strengthening the ESA and improve on its provisions so
A> that species aren't listed before it's too late--in other words, we
A> need to stop the extinction curve. Seems to me developers as a whole
A> are prospering just fine. They're plight is not nearly half as bad as
A> what could become of all of us without strong environmental
A> protections. As John Muir once wrote, "We are all interconnected." 

  More importantly, that is what it says in ALL Biology 101 textbooks.
  We are utterly dependent on the biosphere.  Utterly dependent.

A> And
A> if we continue to destroy open space, we will only end up destroying
A> ourselves. Just think about how you feel when you're closed up all day
A> in a hot stuffy office with no open space. Think about living in a
A> world where that's the only option you've got. Pretty bleak picture.
A> --Andrea. --



...     False economic assumptions are the root of all evil.