The Delta Smelt is a 5-7cm. long fish that is listed on the Endangered Species List, and it resides in California, a state severely hit by the current depression.
The California taxpayer is about 6 feet tall, works about 40 hours a week, and is quite abundant all along the West Coast, including California.
Apparently, according to the liberal hippies in California, and in California’s congressional delegation (I’m looking at you Pelosi) in Washington, the former is more important than the latter.
The protection of this fish is slated to remove 500,000 acres of agriculturally-viable lands in the state from use, resulting in the loss of 80,000 estimated jobs. Exactly what California needs right now, I’m sure.
Although the scheme and object of the Endangered Species Act is legitimate in many situations, this is clearly not one of them. The basic principle of common sense is being drown in the same waters that these little Anchovy-wannabes are swimming in.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Ca.) is finding the situation so ridiculous that he says California as we know it, is over, and the reset button must be hit.
That reset button should be saved for the Democrats in Congress that are so drunk on ideology that they would allow for this environmental legislation to be bastardized in such a way that would cost 80,000 people their jobs. This is an example of how the current depression is causing the cracks to start openly tearing in some areas of the US. Issues like these need to be brought to the attention of the public in greater detail so that the hard-working tax-payers on this continent can take a stand for what is right, and not let the sinking ship that is America fall even faster.
Rep. Nunes, who is quickly becoming my favorite member of Congress, made a powerful YouTube video which any MansInc. regular should check out…
Thanks for the help Nancy!
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March 26, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Dion-boourns
When one clicks on this article’s heading on the left-hand column the auto-generating “possibly related posts” hardly do any service to the point of the article. Ronny Reagan wouldn’t approve.
March 28, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Alexandra Ames
I just read an article about this. Has anyone thought about the next endangered species after the Delta Smelt? Considering the considerable percentage of America’s food-stuffs that are grown in the California valley, it may be those “humans” who are enforcing the endangered species act. Nevermind the unemployment rate in the farming areas of California is nearing the 30% level. It is time to start looking at a big picture. Exactly HOW are the Delta Smelt entering the aquaduct system?