Posted on 02/21/2014 4:01:37 PM PST by Libloather
The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will spend $175,000 for a study on the swimming abilities of fish in the Northern Rockies, the agency announced on Thursday.
The FWS, a bureau within the Department of the Interior, will award a grant for the study that will produce a fish swimming video.
The grant announcement, entitled Cooperative Research Program on the Swimming Abilities of Native Stream Fishes in the Northern Rockies-Upper Great Plains Regions of Montana, estimated the projects cost at $175,000.
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Thought it was The Onion, wrong again...
What is next, why birds fly?
This pure corruption.
You see, some fish can’t swim as well as others,
this is knowm as aquatic inequality.
These fish need government help in the form
of subsidies and tax breaks, along with
Hydrophobia counciling.
How about a $ 0.01 study on the thinking abilities of bureaucrats?
...Well, I would pay to study “Why Democrats Lie” but then the topic was covered early in the Book of Genesis.
Ah yes, this administration funding enviro-nazis a $175,000 grant to study how globull warming will affect how fish swim.
Now that the debt ceiling is unlimited for the next year we’ll see more of this type theft.
The other 10% besides the military doesn't know what it's doing.
Yeah folks, this is really pathetic.
It is not going to end well for sure; at some point ‘other people’s money’ will run out (it already has, really).
This is all about, in this case, some environazi that wants to establish a “Scientific” study that may prevent industry.
Next, they will commission a study on “burnt toast”.
Hmmmmmm.....why’s the sky blue?
Several years ago, there was a grant of 2.5 million to study the mating habits of the African Tree Frog....
After extensive study, the committee found: They exist, therefore they do......
Hmmmmmm.....whys the sky blue?
I think you are missing the point.
We can’t control why the sky is blue, but we supposedly can control the fish population.
My burnt toast example is a reflection of the lefts attempts to control people.
My uncle spent a lot of time outdoors and he said that fish are pretty good at it, but he wasn’t a scientist or anything, and you know how uncles can be.
The states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend to study the swimming abilities of fish, government power to address such issues automatically reserved uniquely to the states under the 10th Amendment if the states deem such a study necessary (ahem).
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The problem is that generations of parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, as the Founding States had meant for those powers to be understood. Consequently, state lawmakers, who are probably as constitutionally clueless as the voters who elected them, don't object when the feds spend money on such things.
Note that if state lawmakers hadn't ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up the voice of the state legislatures in Congress which was why the Founding States had established the Senate, that federal senators should have killed the HoR bill that appropriated tax dollars for this highly questionable study.
I know some female man-eating sharks that can swim on dry land.
Main point: yes, generations of parents have not taught their children NOTHING, they leave the public schools to deal with that.
Now that generation is running the show!
Have some respect everyone. This spending is being done to honor the memory of Ted Kennedy. /S
We've been doing this since the 1950s, since the Dingell Johnson Act. Collect an excise tax on fishing equipment and supplies that Treasury turns over to FWS who grants it back to the states.
We've been doing the same thing on hunting equipment and supplies since the Pittman Robertson Act in the 1930s.
They also do it on motorboat fuel.
Some states do it also. Texas has their Sporting Goods Tax.
It actually functions like a user fee. Fishermen pay the tax and fishermen benefit.
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