[Hoodat]

he said. "I don't know what else I'm supposed to do."

Try voting Republican next time.

[P-40]

I have some extra herbicide if he needs it...

[Texas Eagle]

Fave Reagan quotes:

"Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector. "

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. "

"Government is not the solution to people's problems, government IS the problem"

[metmom]

They go after the little guy cause they know he can’t fight back.

I’ll betcha developers would get a pass because of the income generated by their development.

[WorkingClassFilth]

He knew about the wetland area and still bought the property for use as he saw fit - bad mistake. As long de facto control of the land is in governmental hands through the handy tool of environmental regulation, he has no rights. He's saddled with the property's tax burden and the reponsibility to uphold some bureaucrat's fiat decree. Silly serf, what did he expect?

[ricks_place]

Some private company surely has a plan for a bigger economic return and an increase to the tax base. The Jeff White “farm” should be condemned and confiscated.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Bureaucratic terrorism!

[ken21]

the right to own property

is a key issue of the

u.s. constitution.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Up to ten percent property tax rate and you can’t even plant tomatoes on your property. It’s past time to be tarring and feathering. Only willing sheeple are sheared.

[Sender]

This completely upends the concept of ownership of land. This guy is even bending over backward to tend the land, plant nice plants (which animals like to eat) on the land, and yet the envirowackos want to fine him into oblivion. If he cannot do nice things, green things, with the land, he does not own it. The State owns it, and his deed means nothing. This is the kind of thing that started the Declaration of Independence.

[tina07]

eesh, my hometown...

[Nathan Zachary]

Unbelievable idiocy. Why would an idiot sign over land to these enviro-wienie groups/organizations in the first place I'll never know. What are they thinking?
And why in the world does the government even recognize them, and allow them to make their own laws outside of the law making powers of the government?

The laws of this nation are not transferable to international entities like these UN environmental protection agencies, groups, or NGO's, it is a violation of the constitution. No person regardless of ownership can trade the laws governing land ownership in this country to foreign agencies, or wacko groups outside of official government regulatory agencies, wetland protection agencies, etc.

Or can they?

It's time Americans stand up and put a stop to idiot politicians signing agreements with UN NGO and giving them the power to declare tracks of American land as "heritage sites, "wonders of the world" sites, signing over authority to alien governments (UN) of groundwater supplies, national forests, or authority over ONE INCH of American sovereignty.

It's illegal.

[Stegall Tx]

My farm has a pond on it and one of my coworkers suggested that I check into a program his grandparents used where the Agriculture Department paid for part of the expense of developing a “wetland” on their property. He thought it was a great way to get some cash from the government.

I thought it was probably just a way to get thrown off my land some day. Between the “wetland” (the pond that fills up once every 10 years or so) and the prairie dogs, I’m sure I’ll never get to spend my retirement years on land that has been in my family for three generations.

[taxesareforever]

It’s all about confiscation and control of private property. It is despicable and criminal.

[Ferris]

WTF country is this?!?!?

Astounding.

You won't care about any freedom you had, until you have to fight to get it back.

Only then will it mean anything...

[CometBaby]

I have a very good friend who bought 60 acres of land in northern CA years ago. He loved it there until the day he got a letter in the mail from the EPA saying they would like to have permission to come onto his land to "inspect" it.

He fired off a letter saying "no" but knew the handwriting was on the wall. They were going to create protected areas on his land. He put it up for sale. Sold it and moved to AZ. He hated to part with his beloved home, but he knew that they were going to make his life miserable.

It's a sad state of affairs the power they have been given.

[DB]

This is closer to the reason why bridges are old and fall down in America. Huge amounts of resources are spent producing nothing but piles of worthless paper.

[American in Israel]

The land of the once free, and the home of the bean counter.

I hate socialists...

[Navy Patriot]

New Joisy is the organized crime state, what’d he expect?

[jonrick46]

How ironic. A person is told he cannot grow a garden in the Garden State, New Jersey. When are the people of New Jersey going to wake up and realize that the DemonRATs have destroyed the reputation of their state. Their governor is a image of a people’s government that has ran off the road without a seat belt.