Time to teach some old dogs new tricks
The Hillsborough County Commission have gone off and done it again. When are we good people of Hillsborough County going to get outraged enough to boot these carpetbaggers off the Commission? They voted on Thursday to eliminate the Wetlands Protection Division of the Environmental Protection Commission, a local entity that helps protect us from thoughtless over-building and preserves precious wetlands. Wetlands are those things that buffer hurricane impact, reduce flooding, help filter pollution, provide habitat for animals and are just plain pretty to look at. Even in the wake of lessons taught by Katrina we have these cretins wanting to allow more destruction of wetlands. In addition to supposed budget savings, their reasoning was it was restrictive to development. Blair said it delays home construction with an extra layer of regulation. No shit Sherlock, that's the point. We don't need a "Damn the environment, full speed ahead" development policy. Just who are these guys working for? Don't answer that, we all know who, and it ain't the citizens of the county. They're so comfortable that we won't do anything that they're not even pretending anymore. The stings are out there in the open and they're not even ashamed of it. Good folks of Hillsborough County it is time we stand up and say No More! We must send the message that we are tired of the puppets in power. Cut their strings and take back our county. More information can be found on Sticks of Fire:
http://sticksoffire.com/2007/06/22/
selling-out-our-wetlands-for-developers/
U-Can is another resource where you can keep informed of these issues
http://sticksoffire.com/2007/06/22/
selling-out-our-wetlands-for-developers/
U-Can is another resource where you can keep informed of these issues
posted by Grumpy at 6/24/2007 09:56:00 AM
4 Comments:
Great post! You are absolutely right that "it is time we stand up and say 'No More!'" Thanks for helping to spread the word.
The commissioners who voted to do this should be tarred & feathered and run out of Tampa on a rail. We may as well just appoint the largest local builders to the commission and say to hell with having elections. Vote the bastards out of office next time around!
Apathy is killing this community.
Thank you Mariella for the kind words. Yes luckytop, we need to get back to the day when crooks like this were treated like the criminals they are, and good citizens ran them out of town. Mr. Duncan, I couldn't agree more. I think it's killing this country and our world too. People just don't care outside of their own little bubbles. We need something to snap people out of the daze they must be in, that keeps them from seeing whats going on around them. Hopefully as word spreads, this incident might help, but I'm not sure it's nearly enough.
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