THANK YOU, Hugh!!
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But there is one thing it can do, and should do. Now. Tomorrow... ...White House personnel needs to get off the dime and begin to staff the senior level of the field bureaucracies.
Any ideas on WHO Dubya should appoint for these positions?
White House personnel needs to get off the dime and begin to staff the senior level of the field bureaucracies. Wise appointments could quickly tame the worst abuses of law and regulation and at the same time could begin the effort to reclaim some key constituencies in the West. The political geography does not favor the President out here. But it is a political dynamic that only gets worse when the Administration does not bother to fix what it could even as it plans longer term relief where its hands are presently tied.
You know as well as I do what really needs to happen here. Take a meat cleaver to these agencies. Don't buy into the federal bureaucracy. Chop em up and dissolve them. As long as a massive federal government and government financed NGOs exist, we are going to continue to have problem. Sure we can man the federal bureaucracy with our boys, but that only works until the next hick from Arkansas comes along who's content to frolic in the collective cesspool.
Gut the federal agencies today. Defund the NGOs immedidately. Nationalize all lands purchased with federal grants and return them to the states. Issue an EO striking down the Heritage River's act. If I'm not mistake it was a Clinton EO that created that devils brew in the first place. It was a flawed concept from the start.
From "FOX News Bios":
William La Jeunesse joined FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Los Angeles bureau as a reporter in March of 1998, where he also contributes reports for FOX News Edge, the network’s affiliate news service.
Prior to joining FNC, La Jeunesse spent three years as an investigative reporter for KTVK-TV (IND) in Phoenix, Arizona and before that served in the same capacity at KNSD-TV (NBC) in San Diego, where he won two Golden Microphone Awards and an EMMY Award, and KTSP-TV in Phoenix, where he received five local EMMY Awards.
A graduate of Syracuse University, La Jeunesse began his journalism career at the Arizona Republic, where he spent five years writing investigative pieces for the daily. He was named the Arizona Press Club Journalist of the Year in 1989 and the UPI Western Region Journalist of the Year in 1987 and 1989.
I rarely watch TV (even FOX!) - so I do not know this guy. Is anybody out there familiar with his work?
The big picture short term though is these agencies need to be scrapped, completely, the employees and appointees fired, and then the needs that first required these agencies to be re debated and rebuilt to what they were supposed to be. How to do that is open for debate, but the need is apparent. I'm frankly just plain tired of 8 million people being on the tax payers pay roll at huge expense, destroying peoples lives, and receiving pensions and credit cards and vacations. Government in general is just out of control huge, a lumbering mostly incompetent monstrosity, a golem of gluttony, a goliath of greed. Hands fulla gimme and a mouth fulla *&*^%^k you civvie! Do what we say or be killed! I honestly don't see how people in those positions can cash their checks and not be full of shame, just plain old vanilla old fashioned shame. Did ja see that article today, half a MILLION dollars to house those fed agents at the headgates at the motel? Like WHAT FOR? I hope the townspeople keep up the shunning and they include local quisling businesses as well. Collaborators is more like it.
You can't and shouldn't negotiate with terrorists. Waste of time. Opens you up to the stockholm syndrome, too, which is a *true occurence* that effects victims sometimes. They wind up making excuses for the terrorists who are victimising them. "Oh, the terrorist is just doing his job", and etc. "mustn't upset the terrorist" "the terroists told us the proper way to think and act and they are so smart and kind, let's just do what they say".
No easy answers here other than realise that the land, the water, the money, the born-with freedoms up and down the list- all hijacked by a consortium of big government, big corporations and big non governmental organizations. They are terrorists in suits. They don't necessarily look like osama bin laden, but there's really no difference. Some have badges, some have briefcases, some sit in front of benches, but the results are "terrorism" so that makes them "terrorists". Until enough people realise that these terrorists will continue their outrages. Every day it seems there's a new one, not only out west, all over, for years now, usually it's a lone family, or a very small area, never gets any press or media coverage, people destroyed, and partly destroyed by realising they are totally alone, abandoned by their neighbors and attacked by the Big 3 terrorist cartel. No redress, no hope, they bleed you to death, or stomp you flat, that's the two choices of legal suicide they give you once a royal edict is spewed.