Obama appoints czar for Great Lakes clean up

AP ^ | June 4th, 2009

[smartyaz]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama has appointed a Great Lakes czar to oversee the administration's initiative to restore the Lakes' environment.

Cameron Davis, president of the Chicago-based environmentalist group Alliance for the Great Lakes, will head the effort. The alliance announced the appointment Wednesday.

The restoration program is expected to cost more than $20 billion.

[Jaxter]

I'm waiting for a Czar of Silly Walks..

[N3WBI3]

Not only has he created another czar bypassing the EPA and decided to spend 20,000,000 notice who got the job

“Chicago-based environmentalist group”

This is political payback..

[Bean Counter]

"President Barack Obama has appointed a Great Lakes czar..."

[RckyRaCoCo]

Good ole Rahm Emanuel has many friends there(Lake Michigan)

[cripplecreek]

Lookie here, we got us a new czar to clean up our “horribly polluted” great lakes.

[Voter62vb]

Hate to be a number nazi, but it’s $20,000,000,000.00 20 BILLION.

[cripplecreek]

I’m smelling water rights/distribution issues from the Dictatator Obama.

Exactly. This isn't about cleaning up the great lakes, they don't really need it. This is about removing dams, regulating wells, transporting water elsewhere, and preventing irrigation.

[Holicheese]

Me, I was appointed Czar of cleaning the cat box and scrubbing out the trash can!

[Voter62vb]

http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=468

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I’ll see your czar, and raise a potentate.

[Voter62vb]

Financials:

http://www.greatlakes.org/Document.Doc?id=598

[cripplecreek]

Very interesting site. The first thing I clicked on was the toolkit which immediately started with a lie.

Kids in the Village of Hersey, Michigan can now fish for trout in the Hersey River— thanks to the removal of a decrepit dam that was unsafe and harming fish habitat.

I used to live down the road from Hersey in Evart Michigan and often caught trout AT THE DAM. They promote a lie that the dam was harming habitat and that trout have returned to a place I often caught trout right at the dam.

Also interesting that Hershy is at least 75 or 100 miles or more from lake Michigan. This group isn't interested in the great lakes.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

$20B to make fresh water a government commodity that be bougt and sold by states west of the Rockies.

[BFM]

Czar’s to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am,
stuck in the middle with you...

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Every time I see the word czar I think of Russia.

It could be worse...he could be appointing a "shah", an "Imir" or a "mullah" of enviro-fascism.

[cripplecreek]

Actually they’ll sell it to the southwest where they cheap illegal labor is easily accessible.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

"...commodity that can be bougt bought and sold..."

finger fart

[N3WBI3]

I used to work for the core of engineers so I can tell you that when the government says 'Great lakes' they mean (and have the force of law behind this) the lakes and *ANY* body of water that drains into the lakes (Rivers, Stream, Brooks, Bays, other lakes, ...., ....

When the Government says great lakes this:

Things south of this go into the Ohio which goes into the Mississippi..

[Little Pig]

I find it interesting that he’s appointing all these “czars”, instead of doing things through congress. At this rate, everything will be run from the White House within a year or so. Since the czar is appointed, not elected, there’s no accountability. This is akin to the mullahocracy in Iran, where the real power sits with people who have no responsibility to the public that they govern.

This guy is dismantling every piece of the American political infrastructure that he can: the three-branch government, contract law, market economy, judicial impartiality, currency market, private financial institutions, private corporations, the impartiality of the census, our network of long-time allies...when do we tell them they’ve gone too far?

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

Can't wait until the czar bans all lakeshore tourism, dismantles shipping traffic, and obliterates the fishing industry. $20,000,000 and thousands of jobs lost. Can't wait!