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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Srexley who wrote (353838)2/5/2003 12:36:07 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (5) of 769667
 
Bush's plans to cut down forests is privatization of public natural wonders for short-term campaign contributor profits. This has always been the Bush way. Whatever the age of the trees, the timber industry wants the big ones and Bush is letting them go for it. These trees are old. They will not grow back in our lifetimes or our childrens lifetimes. Bush has been out to the Sierras calling himself the environmental president. He is a cynical liar. Those he represents have no interest in conservation. Only cutting.
This pattern of Bush doublespeak (say one thing do another) has become clear over the years. While Governor of Texas he promised cleaner air and then fought the EPA, sought every possible exclusion and delaying tactic, took millions from polluters and allowed them to increase toxic discharge throughout the state. He also stopped Anne Richards exhaust inspections on vehicles, excused oil and chemical companies for dumping millions of tons of toxins into the Gulf, let polluter lobbyists write the new "laws" and fought for "voluntary" pollution controls. Deregulation again = NO regulation in the Bush world. Just like with energy trading and how he helped Enron set up that system which cost us all so much. Back to forests, if Bush succeeds in closing down citizens and environmental groups' rights to litigate against timber companies to follow the rules, there will be nothing left to stop the tree-killers from doing exactly what they want, that is severely damaging the forests of the west, damage which will take a century to heal, if it ever does. We owe future generations a lot more than this type of short-term corrupt thinking.
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