Roxanne Quimby is attempting to set aside acreage in Maine's wildness to create a National Park to honor the conservation efforts, including a visitor center dedicated to Henry David Thoreau.
Oddly, Thoreau was a revolutionary. His works regarding the power of the citizen were inspiration to many others. The Tea Baggers, the extremists of the Republican Party, are now revealing their agenda for change, excoriate decency and exploit all that is tolerated.
The Tea Baggers are capitalists that have been unbale to gain control of substantial power to 'have their way' or have support from businesses that are unsuccessful in their own right, but, make money to go bankrupt later. Sort of like "W" and his multiple tries at being an oil barron or Cheney and his failing Halliburton in need of a war to reverse their ill fortunes.
The extremist Governor in Maine and his legislature are now giving a reason to Mr. Quimby's efforts by attempting to destroy the very wilderness she is proposing to save. Looks like there are legal battles ahead as Ms. Quimby has already approached the National Park Service for a 'special status' to these lands.
...Weeks after he was sworn in as governor of Maine (click here), Paul LePage, a Tea Party favorite, announced a 63-point plan to cut environmental regulations, including opening three million acres of the North Woods for development and suspending a law meant to monitor toxic chemicals that could be found in children’s products....
This form of 'deregulation' is familiar to those that follow conservation and protection of our nation's lands and waterways. See, there aren't real 'ideas' with Republicans, there is only deregulation to stimulate TEMPORARY jobs. After all, when the trees are all gone there won't be any more to cut.
A few decades ago, the American fisheries were awesome. They could feed the nation and then some. But, due to Republcian deregulation that allows failing business people to have 'at it' the fisheries of the country are no longer strongly viable. There is stress throughout the entire three coasts of the USA, the latest being the "BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster."
When the fisheries were deregulated before there was a significant increase in the number of fishing vessels allowed to take fish everyday. That increased numbers CAUSED the crash of several species of fish that were favorites in the American diet. Eventually, as the fish wane the people that were bad business people before the deregulation went bankrupt walking away with whatever monies they managed to take and the number of sincere fisherman (Families in the business for decades) returned to normal.
This is the same thing that is going on now with the Republican Governors. They have no 'ideas' for jobs. They aren't pounding the pavement for businesses to come into their state that will provide sustainable jobs with longevity. We saw all this during the Bush years when construction was funded by the Republican majorities with every legislative measure passed. The Bush White House and their majority legislature spent monies on illegal wars and they spent monies on infrastructure construction at every turn. They funded housing construction to the point of market collapse for the over abundance of homes and commercial buildings.
This is the 'same ole,' 'same ole' being seen by a different name. The Bush White House offered businesses perks they didn't know what to do with and wasn't interesting to them in the first place. That is all the Regressive Republicans have to offer. The same old failing economic infrastructure with the same sad scenario over and over and over again. Americans never learn. they will fund economic collapse after economic collapse after economic collapse at the hand of bad government forever.
DEREGULATION leads to EXPLOITATION and FAILED BUSINESS MODELS and GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF THE FAILED.
WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS BEFORE?
