"Via The Wilderness Society we get an example of another way they operate. The National Wildlife Refuge System is getting stressed to the breaking point, and here's how they do it.The Bush administration is really a criminal cabal intent on destroying the American government and on looting it as they tear it down.
"The Land and Water Conservation Fund is intended to fund acquisitions of areas of value to the refuge system, yet of the $900 million from oil and gas royalties available, Bush and the GOP Congress spent 16 percent of that, and Bush has proposed to spend 6 percent next year. Of course the new Democratic Congress will probably reverse that trend, but the fact remains that the Bush Administration is not a good steward of our lands, our laws, or our people.
"They've done this same dodge with Aids in Africa, and countless other programs, budget a bunch of money but never spend any, the only purpose being to claim they increased the budgets, even though they didn't spend the money. It's just another LIE from the mouths of George W Bush and his soulless coterie of fiends and hacks and incompetents, just to prove that government doesn't work so we need to privatize it."
There is no "middle ground" in which those of us who believe that some social functions are better performed by government than by private businesses can compromise. For example, Social Security and the funding of health care are clearly government functions, because they are both social functions critical to the optimal operation of the whole society whether or not individuals can afford to pay for them or have the foresight to do so. The Republican destruction hordes cannot be compromised with on these subjects. They must simply be stopped and overridden.
Oh, and removed from government.
