Is this story true? I have no idea. When my foreign students express shock at this story, I always think of the true story of the Delta Smelt, that tiny fish in California whose protection has driven the San Joaquin Valley in Central California from the top breadbasket in the nation to a dust bowl costing tens of thousands of farmers' jobs.
There has recently been a favorable decision from a California judge in the matter of the Delta Smelt. Steven Greenhut of the Orange County Register has written a very sensible op-ed on the story. It is a story of the abuse of government regulation.
For those of you living outside of California, you are probably thinking this story is preposterous. It is true, however. It is not only a story of common sense flying out the window, but of government regulation and environmentalism gone wild.
By the way, the next time you UC Santa Cruz Community Studies majors are dining in a local restaurant, don't bother ordering Delta Smelt. It is used as bait.
Can't make this stuff up, folks.
2 comments:
Squid just love to eat Smelt, after their favorite meal, which is corruptocrat-environmentalists.
Squid
The amount of discretionary power the environmentalists have is enormous. They cause all kinds of human disasters because of their half baked theories. It will take decades to root them out of government agencies.
I have a friend who works on major construction projects. He has one project down the coast that has been in approval stage of one agency or another for 15 years! No wonder nobody can do any business, especially any new business.
I may have written it here before, but the Empire State building, the tallest building in the world, was built in 18 months in the midst of the Depression. Insulin went from the purification process developed in 1921 to being in the drugstores in 1923. Think how many lives were saved.
All this micromanagement by the government, thinking that they know what is best for all of us, creates the exact same kind of mismanagement, fraud, and abuse that they had in the Soviet Union. It just doesn't work, folks. The free, democratic, market driven economy ends up with the most good for the most people as has been shown time and time and time again. Our "poor people" have more goods and services than the middle classes and in some places the wealthier people, in almost all socialist countries in the world.
People who are compassionate over the smelt have no compassion for the human misery they have caused.
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