Posted on 10/06/2013 5:32:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Assuming the position of “Supreme Leader” of the US government, President Barack Obama has named a new casualty due to the (partial) shutdown of the Federal Government: The Ocean.
Over 1,100 square miles of ocean has been declared off limits to the public in the Florida Bay. Apparently, unknown to most Americans, allowing boats to meander into open water is a cost that has proven to be unsustainable in the event of a government shutdown. Well. . . At least that’s according to the National Park Service.
Therefore, it only makes sense that the Federal Government allocate personnel and equipment to enforce the closure of 1,100 square miles of ocean that would otherwise require no maintenance or personnel whatsoever. I mean, do we pay those fish? What expenditure are we curbing by designating guards to keep boats off 1,100 square miles of open water?
So just like the WWII memorial, the Vietnam Memorial, and other open-air memorials, the government is expending more resources shutting them off to a taxpaying public (who technically own all those memorials) than if they were to simply leave them alone.
But, it gets worse: Even Catholic Priests are facing arrest if they dare volunteer at army bases for Sunday service. Why? Maybe because the Federal government has decided it must inflict more pain on our men and women in uniform during the shutdown. Maybe the Chaplains and priests should hold their Sunday service on the greens of Andrews Air-Force Golf Course. After all, that’s still open.
Oh, and is the “People’s House” – Ya know, that white colored home we allow the President to live in while he’s in office – still closed to tours? I’m beginning to think the President is a little fuzzy on who actually owns all these parks, memorials, and federal lands. . . Not to mention the ocean.
Even areas of bipartisan agreement (such as the funding for NIH pediatric cancer treatment) have been rejected by the President and Senate leadership. Apparently treating pediatric cancer is not as important to Democrat Leadership as winning a political victory.
The President, as well as Democrat leadership such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, feel that it is their right to use the power of the Federal Government to coerce and intimidate the masses into submission. The selective enforcement of the government shutdown has highlighted the extent to which liberals see government as a tool to win political battles, rather than an arbitrator of justice and protector of rights. Pain has been inflicted, closures declared, and funding stripped in purely political calculations to browbeat the American public (and more importantly, the Republicans) into a state of acquiescence.
The President’s temper-tantrum-governing, however, trudges on as he closes the oceans, bullies veterans, and violates the 1st amendment of military personnel. The most audacious part of his childish tantrum, however, is his insistence that only absolute compliance with his demands will rescue us from the pain imposed by his decisions.
The Self-Inflicted Wounds of Bare-Knuckle Governing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075539/posts
“The answer came in a memo from White House Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell providing guidance to federal agencies and departments. Aside from prefacing this Sept. 17 memo with a political talking point (Congress is to blame, not the administration), she instructs agency heads not to consider whether the cost of shutting down a government website is more expensive than keeping it running. “
I wish someone could find and post this entire memo.
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The thought that one simple human - I believe something more nefarious, EVIL - could control any aspect of something so vast as the ocean is the height of humanistic arrogance.
FUBO!
FUBO!
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This guy is one scarey MF’er!
QS: What if the cost of shutting down a website exceeds the cost of maintaining services?
AS: The determination of which services continue during an appropriations lapse is not affected by whether the costs of shutdown exceed the costs of maintaining services.
From:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2013/m-13-22.pdf
“QS: What if the cost of shutting down a website exceeds the cost of maintaining services?
AS: The determination of which services continue during an appropriations lapse is not affected by whether the costs of shutdown exceed the costs of maintaining services.
From:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2013/m-13-22.pdf
THANK YOU!!!
Here in Islamorada the park service was told to make it as hard on the locals as you can so they closed the 650 square miles of Fla. Bay to boaters and fishermen.
They do this just at a time when fishing is reaching a fall peak with water temps falling and the fish really turning on.
Bonefish, redfish,snook tarpon,trout all and many more are really beginning to turn on this time of year.And we ar not allowed to fish for them.Sept., Oct.,Nov. is a very slow time of the year down here anyway. The regime probably figured out they can make it even worse by closing down the area. True Marxists to the core.
The line is if you get caught the first time you get a warning second time they try and take your boat.
It's all BS but nothing new to us.
ON the ocean side we have had NOAA trying to close off fishing grounds for years and the ENP service on the bay side for over 30 years through a maze of regulation and phony laws from overfishing claims to crocodile protection(while crocs take dogs off local key largo docks and eat them),its all so much barbara streisand.
We still have guys going fishing taking their chances although they are enforcing from the air with planes and by boats on the water.
Never ends down here.
Who do we think we are.... Free Men?
They lack the resources to enforce such a ban. If the shut down is simply ignored there can be no recourse.
We still have guys who are fishing but the problem is there are 17 law enforcement agencies down here. We have local state and federal.we used to be a drug smuggling capital,no more.If any of them need help they just call one of the others.
I feel pain every time I see or hear Obama.
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