White House tees up historic $1B Everglades funding

eenews ^ | 01/19/2022 | Hannah Northey

[Recovering_Democrat]

The Biden administration today announced it will spend an unprecedented $1 billion from a recently passed infrastructure package to restore and protect South Florida’s sprawling Everglades.

The move is part of the White House’s larger effort to elevate the Army Corps of Engineers’ work to ease supply chain constraints...

Today’s announcement prompted some lawmakers to question exactly how the Army Corps wlll spend the money and which projects will be included.

Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida in a statement said he’s worked for almost a year to include full funding for the reservoir in the infrastructure plan, but Democrats and the White House “failed to specifically allocate any money” and instead “kicked the can over to the Army Corps.”

“Today they announced they wouldn’t allocate even one dollar for the [Everglades Agricultural Area] reservoir, cementing the Biden Administration’s massive screw up,” Mast said.

[Recovering_Democrat]

The local Miami media is using this BIPARTISAN LAW but trying to give Sleepy Joe all the credit.

The usual suspects: Debbie Blabbermouth and Frederica Empty Hat Wilson were applauded by liberal media...

[rodguy911]

This is a big deal for us in South fla. and has far reaching ramifications if the water flow from the middle of the state is not properly managed.Also there are resorvoir ponds and other issues for getting fresh water inthe right quantities to the right places at the right time.
The dems on the other hand don’t give a dam. All they want are huge sums of govt. money which they can turn into slush funds for vote buying with our money.
Its the same ol’ crap with them. Their entire party needs to vanish.

[nathanbedford]

Time: 1980s

Scene: streetcorner in South Florida

Property developer #1 what are you doing this afternoon?

Property developer #2: nothing

Property developer #1: let's build another unneeded strip center and pave some more of the Everglades, we are only halfway to Tampa, there is still some left.

We think this is a property use issue, in reality it is also an overpopulation issue. For years on these threads I have been a lonely voice decrying our increasing population. We are going to reap the whirlwind in so many ways.

[zeestephen]

I doubt if 5% of the people in Florida even think about the Everglades.

It is a giant swamp. Full of snakes and mosquitoes. Six months a year, it is unbearably hot and humid.

If not for Alligator Alley, less than 1% of Floridians would even visit the Everglades.

[mo]

While the purported intent is good.....IMHO this is intended to seed electoral and voter fraud for the 2024 elections...

[ConservativeMind]

Nathan, I don’t see a problem with the birth rate in the US, when it comes to “population increase.” We are aborting and not creating kids, quite well, in the US.

We are allowing in a great many already-borns from other countries, though. So the population from around the world is shifting.

“The current fertility rate for U.S. in 2021 is 1.781 births per woman…”

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fertility-rate

So, we are decreasing the population, quite nicely, here in the US.

Are there that many Mussies in the EU that the EU is now having a population boom?

[nathanbedford]

I agree that population trends are governed by ungoverned immigration rather than native fecundity, however, my mind cannot get past the bedrock fact that when I was born the population of United States was about 140 million and today it ranges around 340 million.

As to Europe, again I agree, immigration is key. I can offer my anecdotal experience which is that Germany, as the economic powerhouse of Western Europe, is being inundated by EU immigrants from poor Eastern countries and by wholesale numbers of Muslims making an economic haij and Africans whom one can see daily on the streets.

It is not clear whether either Germany or the European Union is losing population in absolute numbers but the "shift in population" you describe is quite clear.

On either continent, the prospect is bleak.

[ConservativeMind]

Well, this might provide some insight:

“While the first official United Census occurred on August 2, 1790, colonial and pre-federal statistics estimate the population was about 2.5 million people living in the 13 colonies of the United States in 1776.”

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-population-of-the-united-states.html

Who was decrying the six times the US population doubled, before your birth? Was it the early versions of “The Population Bomb” author, Professor Paul R. Ehrlich, whose fears were never realized?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

You are sharing his concerns.

My concern is strictly with the transplant of bad ideologies and practices, infiltrating the country, because it appears the population across the world is maintaining itself quite nicely, whatever the number becomes.

[Joe Boucher]

The Army Corps of Engineers is the outfit that screwed up the Everglades to begin with,
1st they dug a canal is the middle of the Kissimmee River instead of the river being filtered as a river of grass.
2nd they built Interstate 75 from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale as a berm thus not allowing the River of grass to do its thing as the berm blocks the flow.
Typical big gub mint screw up.

[nathanbedford]

The transplant of indigestible cultures, languages, philosophies and conceptions of democracy and justice are incontestably serious threats and, equally incontestably, symptoms of ungoverned immigration.

I go beyond you, however, and confesse to a pesky leaning toward Thomas Jefferson.

Nathan Bedford's maxim on liberty: Density of population leads to tyranny.

[nathanbedford]

I just found the post of mine from 2012 that bears on the subject but also reveals that some people are incapable of "growth" from a fixed idea:

Whether the population explosion in America in my lifetime has occurred because of organic growth or because of unsustainable immigration, the baleful effects on our liberty are the same. The baleful effects on the economy of immigrants who cannot cope in a 21st-century environment are not positive for the economy, too many studies have confirmed that. Uneducated, poverty-stricken, illiterate, socialist minded, culturally alien, illegal (or legal) intruders cost more than they contribute.

The absolute number of people competing for space on the highways, for public services, for a hearing in our courts, our fish stocks, our beaches, our waterways, our land-use, all compete against one another for these resources. Inevitably, the government must arbitrate among these competing claims. Inevitably, those free beaches will be denied you and you will lose that liberty, just as you have lost your liberty to freely fish, to hunt, to build on your own land, to visit our national parks, to maintain animals on your property, etc.

Do you really think your right to drink soda from a 16 ounce cup is in jeopardy in sparsely populated North Dakota as it is in densely populated New York City?

Do you really think in a society of 310 million people we can survive without zoning laws limiting your right to use your property? You just lost liberty. It was not so when I was a youngster with 140 million people. There is a connection between the press of population and our freedom of action. If we are cheek by jowl with our neighbor inevitably the government will arbitrate the friction created by one rubbing against the other. This is a zero sum game. Inevitably, this is the loss of liberty.

[Joe Brower]

"my mind cannot get past the bedrock fact that when I was born the population of United States was about 140 million and today it ranges around 340 million"

Same for me, as is your assessment of the last 60 years of population growth in its many aspects.

I am glad that I was able to roam the cattle lands of Florida when the loudest sound was the wind through the trees, not the constant rush of the nearby highway. I hiked and hunted in areas of Southern California which today are endless square miles of tract homes and condos.

More people always means less freedom. Homo sapiens being the flawed creatures that that are, it always has, and always will.

[GingisK]

It doesn’t cost a billion dollars to leave something alone.

[Wuli]

Why is decade after decade in my lifetime the Everglades in Florida an unending issue and forever “project” of no permanent solution?

[Menes]

I’m afraid this is what we have seen, and still are seeing, in Europe - after all, we Euros seem, as a rule of thumb, more socialist-minded to American eyes.

It’s definitely not the only reason, mind you, but I am quite sure population density is a contributing factor.

[Sequoyah101]

Controlling immigration, legal and otherwise, would have made almost all of the growth problem go away.

Too late. That ship has already sailed.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I’m sure governor Desantis will weigh in on this.

5.56mm