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To: Gen.Blather

It can be done.

This problem exposes the communist structure of the environmental laws.

Bureaucrat created law trumping common sense and the will of the people.


27 posted on 08/29/2013 2:15:34 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

“Bureaucrat created law trumping common sense and the will of the people.”

I was interviewing (for an artcle) the president of what was then the fifth largest home builder in the country. He said that if they discovered an eagle’s nest all work had to stop. He was spending half a million a week and an eagle’s nest on his several hundred acre development it would cause him to go bankrupt. He could figure when to the day. That would cost not only his multi-generation company but 500 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs. So, (and he said he’d never done this) over a weekend somebody would cut down the tree and kill the eagle and he’d pay the (I think) $15,000 fine. It was either that or go bankrupt. He called the environmental laws “well intentioned insanity.”


30 posted on 08/29/2013 2:23:38 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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