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Originally Posted by SteveA
Sure wish we had George Bush back...  |
There are lots of folks saying that and while Bush did a lot of things I had problems with, mostly his lack of controlling spending, he looks like a saint in that department compared to BO. Still that doesn't let him off the hook in my book, just the lesser of two evils compared to BO. Frankly the thing that needs to happen is for there to be a serious house cleaning of the house and senate and not just the Dems, but a whole lot of Republicans as well. This country needs to get back on track and you can't completely lay the blame on the Prez, remember he can only sign into law that which is placed on his desk. Although executive orders can be put into place, if they are in direct conflict with what is already written into law they should not under any kind of judicial scrutiny trump the law. That said we all should be concerned with the notion that a Prez can on a whim whip those things out at will. Seems to completely bypass the legislative process and to me anyways directly conflicts with the overall balance of government.
As far as this fishing thing goes, I did do some research on it and although I vehemently disagree with it for a number of reasons it seems to be targeting the commercial industry initially more so than us regular Joes. However the language that is troubling is that they want to create what is equivalent to the "wilderness" areas in the national forest which will be in the future used to further restrict access. First the designation needs to be made, then slowly over time they will be shut down to everyone. While I am all for common sense restrictions if needed, many of these things are started by people who have a fundamental problem with folks that enjoy things such as fishing and hunting and NOT on any kind of reasonable
unbiased scientific or population survey data. This is why we have a fish and game department that manage various populations through conservation AND harvesting via hunting and fishing.