Bush cuts conservation fund by 40% , parks by 89 million$

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com (news section)


"Early in his presidency, Bush called for restoring the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund to the full $900 million authorized by Congress. Last year, it was approved at $142 million.

For 2007, he wants just $85 million in grants for creating and preserving nonfederal parks, forest land and wildlife refuges, a 40 percent cut. The budget also would cut $89 million from the National Park Service's nearly $2.6 billion budget.

“This is the most troubling budget we've seen from this White House,” said Heather Taylor, deputy legislative director for Natural Resources Defense Council.

The proposal sent to Congress this week would trim EPA's budget by nearly 5 percent, down to $7.2 billion, and the Interior Department's budget by 2.4 percent, to $9.1 billion.

Sen. James Jeffords, I-Vt., said it shows the environment isn't a Bush administration priority. “We cannot allow this dangerous trend to continue,” said Jeffords, a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "

[NVMojo]

1. but he wants money to bomb parks and cultural sites in the middle east!

[Kierkegaard]

2. “We cannot allow this dangerous trend to continue,”

OK, WTF are you going to do about it???

My guess is you'll stand by and watch as the auctioneer gavels away our last shred of hope.

[IowaGuy]

3. bit, but, can't you see....Bush is cutting programs that don't work...

like funds for maintaining nat'l parks, like funds for EPA for clean water and air, like funding for education - Head Start thru Pell grants, like funding for Vets medical care....

What can you say...people are put in power that firmly believe "government is the problem", and then they prove it through their own incompetence. Then remarkably enough, they come before the American people, telling the masses, look out - the evil liberals are coming, and see - government doesn't work - keep re-electing me and I'll keep proving it to you....

It's like some maddening mobius strip of psychotic, evil philosophy, that gets this country nowhere.