Subtle Rantings

Source: Fox News Article

America’s wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, boardwalks and buildings are in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them to grow marijuana and make methamphetamine, a group pushing for more funding says.
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A decrease in law enforcement has left the refuges vulnerable to criminal activity, including prostitution, torched cars and illegal immigrant camps along the Potomac River in suburban Washington; gay sex hookups in South Carolina and Alabama; methamphetamine labs in Nevada; and pot growing operations in Washington state.
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The alliance is recommending Congress increase funding for fiscal 2009 to $514 million and that full funding be reached by 2013. The House and Senate are expected to take up the issue in coming weeks.

So here we go with more spending by the greenie’s with money we don’t have? Their solution? Raise taxes on normal middle class and lower class citizens.

My solution? Let us drill in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge and use those tax revenue’s from the oil proceeds to fund all the refuge’s across the nation. It’s actually a new concept. It’s called NOT spending money you don’t have.

And for the critic’s of drilling in ANWR, doesn’t sound like we’re doing a good job of protecting the refuge’s as it is according to the above article. Sure would be nice to have lower gas prices.

More information:
ANWR
Arctic Refuge Drilling Controversy

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