Comments on: Obama Administration Proposes Budget Cuts for Endangered Species Listing http://www.ecosphericblog.com/97/obama-administration-proposes-budget-cuts-for-endangered-species-listing/ Information for those who want to live and laugh more sustainably! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: NASEEM http://www.ecosphericblog.com/97/obama-administration-proposes-budget-cuts-for-endangered-species-listing/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 NASEEM Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:25:13 +0000 http://eco.seebethwrite.com/?p=97#comment-2015 i adore this webpage. i just alerted my buddy dan about this because he loves this kind of stuff too! i adore this webpage. i just alerted my buddy dan about this because he loves this kind of stuff too!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.ecosphericblog.com/97/obama-administration-proposes-budget-cuts-for-endangered-species-listing/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Anonymous Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:32:45 +0000 http://eco.seebethwrite.com/?p=97#comment-47 Ok Salazar and his department are up to the tricks that I have become accustomed to seeing from them. By volunteering to have some of his budget cut he gets to birds with one stone ……and he is good at killing two animals for the price of one. First, he looks like a hero volunteering to run the Department of the Interior with less funding. Hummmm… I wonder what departments within the Dept. of Interior this will affect. How about Law Enforcement? Of course he will have to stay within the new budget. The corporate crooks will run amuck with no one to rein them in for their unlawful and inhumane deeds. What Salazar is really doing is requesting to have the funding cut off for law enforcement of acts that congress charged his department with. Thus the special interest groups, which his Dept. of the Interior has warmed up to, can continue to remove wild animals they deem as competition for their cash crops (cattle, sheep) and he can cry in his own defense that he does not have the budget to do more such as follow up on investigations and the law enforcement that his department is charged with. Ah...tricky, brilliant.......... is Carl Rove working at the Department of the Interior? Maybe he is doing consulting work for them? Anyway, Obama's people are being out maneuvered like green kids by wise guy oldsters. Really now President Obama....do you really not see the writing on the wall? What gives? Ok Salazar and his department are up to the tricks that I have become accustomed to seeing from them. By volunteering to have some of his budget cut he gets to birds with one stone ……and he is good at killing two animals for the price of one. First, he looks like a hero volunteering to run the Department of the Interior with less funding. Hummmm… I wonder what departments within the Dept. of Interior this will affect. How about Law Enforcement? Of course he will have to stay within the new budget. The corporate crooks will run amuck with no one to rein them in for their unlawful and inhumane deeds. What Salazar is really doing is requesting to have the funding cut off for law enforcement of acts that congress charged his department with. Thus the special interest groups, which his Dept. of the Interior has warmed up to, can continue to remove wild animals they deem as competition for their cash crops (cattle, sheep) and he can cry in his own defense that he does not have the budget to do more such as follow up on investigations and the law enforcement that his department is charged with. Ah…tricky, brilliant………. is Carl Rove working at the Department of the Interior? Maybe he is doing consulting work for them? Anyway, Obama's people are being out maneuvered like green kids by wise guy oldsters. Really now President Obama….do you really not see the writing on the wall? What gives?

]]> By: Alex Zorach http://www.ecosphericblog.com/97/obama-administration-proposes-budget-cuts-for-endangered-species-listing/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Alex Zorach Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:48:42 +0000 http://eco.seebethwrite.com/?p=97#comment-46 The process for identifying a species as endangered should be totally separated from politics and economic considerations.<br /><br />It's a sad but understandable reality that resources are limited, and we cannot adequately protect all species. However...why should that affect which species are listed as endangered?<br /><br />The species should be listed as endangered based on independent scientific investigation--independent of economic and political considerations. If we still can't adequately protect the ones that are endangered, that's another issue that needs to be tackled, but that should happen after the fact. The process for identifying a species as endangered should be totally separated from politics and economic considerations.

It's a sad but understandable reality that resources are limited, and we cannot adequately protect all species. However…why should that affect which species are listed as endangered?

The species should be listed as endangered based on independent scientific investigation–independent of economic and political considerations. If we still can't adequately protect the ones that are endangered, that's another issue that needs to be tackled, but that should happen after the fact.

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