Posted on 03/14/2014 1:30:45 PM PDT by thetallguy24
All Andy Johnson wanted to do was build a stock pond on his sprawling eight-acre Wyoming farm. He and his wife Katie spent hours constructing it, filling it with crystal-clear water, and bringing in brook and brown trout, ducks and geese. It was a place where his horses could drink and graze, and a private playground for his three children.
But instead of enjoying the fruits of his labor, the Wyoming welder says he was harangued by the federal government, stuck in what he calls a petty power play by the Environmental Protection Agency. He claims the agency is now threatening him with civil and criminal penalties including the threat of a $75,000-a-day fine.
I have not paid them a dime nor will I, a defiant Johnson told FoxNews.com. I will go bankrupt if I have to fighting it. My wife and I built [the pond] together. We put our blood, sweat and tears into it. It was our dream.
But Johnson may be in for a rude awakening.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Time to retest the constitutionality of the EPA. What right — under the Constitution — does the EPA have to rule on a pond within one state?
EPA Big-Government Environ-MENTAL Nanny State PING!
Which is bogus, or they'd own our kidneys.
New EPA Land Grab, Complete Control Over All Private Land in America
“Which is bogus, or they’d own our kidneys”
Control-freak government.
Greedy.
Sneaky.
Give ‘em time.
Thanks for the ping!
That’s some serious business right there!
Wow, this thread has been brought back to life, I guess it is AFTER easter....
>> Which is bogus, or they’d own our kidneys.
That’s what Obamacare is for.
That's true enough. I live on Long Island, and if I had 8 acres of land, I would say my property is "sprawling." I'd also be destitute and bankrupt, as I don't even want to imagine what the property taxes would be on 8 acres around here.
But one day, I will escape from here and hopefully get myself a REAL "sprawling" place. With a lake. Anyway, that is my dream.
Regards,
My yard is 40 acres, zoned residential, but I do have the right to farm it if I want.
Mostly wooded with three ponds and bordering on a small lake.
Do you think that the government wouldn't extract kidneys if they thought they could get away with it?
Because, you know, ObamaCare is terrible and they'll want some way to make it pay for itself.
See, now THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about! We’d like to get a place where we can keep a couple of horses, a couple of goats, some chickens...kind of a gentleman’s farm setup. Would also like to have a variety of terrain: meadow/pasture, woods, and at least a pond or a brook.
As soon as hubby retires, we plan to leave. Can’t happen soon enough, IMO.
Best regards,
I bet my grandson’s rubber ducky could navigate those waters, so there you go.
My daughter works with environmental regulations inspections in CA. She has worked on the government side and for the private developers. She said when she worked for the government she had to find something wrong in order to fine and litigate over or she wasn’t doing her job.
It is a money making deal for the gov’t agencies and justifies those bureaucrats existence.
To east coast liberals, anything bigger than a 900 sq. foot condo is sprawling.
LOL We are trying to establish a tradition - a music festival there named after Mr. Mercat. Let’s just call it MRMERCATFEST. Last year we had Woody Guthrie’s granddaughter. That may have been the highpoint. But they enjoyed the farm.
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