Posted on 05/04/2016 6:45:37 AM PDT by rktman
The left has concocted a lucrative category of politically correct victims: "climate refugees." It's the new Green racket.
U.S. taxpayers will now be forking over untold billions to ease the pain allegedly inflicted on "carbon's casualties" by industrial activity. By contrast, those who have suffered as a direct result of government incompetence by federal environmental bureaucrats continue to get the shaft.
Consider the plight of two tribes: the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw in Louisiana and the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
The New York Times splashed a viral story on its pages this week spotlighting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's $48 million grant to Native-Americans who live in the flood-ravaged coastal community of Isle de Jean Charles. About 60 residents, the majority of whom belong to the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, will be resettled to drier land.
That's a whopping $800,000 per "climate refugee!"
Never mind that the Times' propagandists themselves admit that erosion on the island began in 1955 as a result of land-use and land-management factors that had nothing to do with climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Regarding penalties for the EPA’s purposeful Gold King mine disaster.
Because “fines” would be taxpayer funded, the remedies need to be:
Prosecution of the perpetrators.
Cut the agency budget and staff and reign in their regulatory authority.
That would have been the thing to do.
The local sheriff or the state police should have arrested the contractors and the EPA agents on the scene and found a state law with which to charge them.
Then when a Federal judge orders their release deny their jurisdiction.
Used to be that the county sheriff was THE top LEO in the county and could toss the feds out. But, sadly, a lot of counties have capitulated and once the feds come in they back off.
These are the Michelle Malkin articles/reports I LOVE!!!
People watch too much TV crime shows. The Feds always are depicted as the ‘Top Dog’.
Yeah, Michelle has gotten a little strange of late.(to me anyway) I used to like all of her articles but now find myself in disagreement with her on occasion.
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