From: klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross)
Subject: Re: Pres. Bush & the spooted owl & c.
Reply-To: klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross)
Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc
Distribution: pnw
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:52:19 GMT

guru@halcyon.com (Dennis Wicks) writes:

   I just heard on the radio a speech that Pres. Bush made in
   some small timber town in Wash.
   
   From the gist of his speech he is going to change the
   spotted owl from an endangered species to an extinct species
   and cut down the remaining old growth forest and sell it to
   Japan.  All in the name of employment for loggers.
   
What Bush meant was "all in the name of reelecting Bush." I wonder how
those owls (and the entire ecosystem they represent) feel about being
declared extinct? I wonder how those loggers will feel when they vote
for the fascist, er, Bush and then lose their jobs anyway because the 
trees and the ecosystems and the beauty that could support a thriving 
tourist trade is GONE? What are they gonna do, pick up and move to 
Georgia and the Carolinas now that those eco-systems are starting to 
recover after 100 years. Why do you think Georgia-Pacific left the
Northwest?

   He referred to this as "restoring balance!"
   
What Bush meant was "destroying balance" You can't make money as the
environmental (he's mental alright) president without selling out to
those who would continue to rape the planet. You could help people and
the planet but that wouldn't make his greedy pals any richer so they
wouldn't help him get re-elected.

   Seems to me that the end result will be further fattening
   the coffers of big timber companies by selling them timber at
   tax-payer subsidized prices.
    
He has to make up for hurling all over the Japanese Prime Minister. He
also needs to pay back the timber interests for all the kickbacks er, I
mean, I mean the campaign contributions "contributed" by the logging
interests who care about as much for their workers as they do for the
spotted owls.

   I also wonder where all this concern for the unemployed was
   several years ago when people were loosing their jobs in the
   upper mid-west?  (The area more commonly known as the "rust
   belt.")  No endangered species back there to use for a
   scapegoat I guess.

If Bush has any concerns, its highly unlikely that anyone that requires
income from a "job" is high on his list. Unless its his shitlist.

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