Posted on 05/17/2004 6:00:49 PM PDT by Apolitical
With all due respect to the frog in whose name a chunk of land the size of Rhode Island was recently designated a critical habitat, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) tends to be a little wacky. I don't think most of us mind the idea of protecting endangered species per se. It's just that we don't see why the whole exercise can't be balanced out with a little bit of regard for humankind.
I mean, more power to the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly for being able to find fulfillment through flower nectar, but you've go to admit that someone's priorities are askew when, under the authority of the ESA, the city of San Bernadino can be made to delay construction of a medical center and spend over $3 million to mitigate for the presence of 8 of the Delhi Sands flies.....
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How stupid. Every living thing is an endangered species. It is called survival of the fittest. It is how evolution works.
Some make it, some don't. That is just how it is and it got the world this far with out any "endangered lists".
Idiots.
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