3 Boxes of BS

This land is your land, this land is their land and don’t you forget it.

Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership — 800 million to 900 million acres out of America’s total 2.2 billion acres.

Some control over “private” land is necessary, but only to the minimum degree necessary. Our Overlords Representatives in Washington D.C. seem to have forgotten that.

The Clean Water Restoration Act currently pending in the U.S. Senate could reach to control even a “seasonal puddle” on private property.

“Right now, the law says that the Environmental Protection Agency is in charge of all navigable water,” said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Western Caucus and an opponent of the bill.

“Well, this bill removes the word ‘navigable,’ so for ranchers and farmers who have mud puddles, prairie potholes — anything from snow melting on their land — all of that water will now come under the regulation of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency,” he said.

Goldman-Carter added that the United States has long regulated streams and other waterways that aren’t ‘navigable’ by boat because to do otherwise would be to allow dumping into smaller water sources that lead to the larger ones used for drinking water and other purposes.

Aside from striking “navigable,” the bill defines U.S. water as “all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters.”

So, now even the puddle that forms in front of my house will under EPA control? Wow, what an incredible and blatant disregard of our traditional property rights.

While the bill supposedly contains provisions to protect some, do you think the government will really follow its own rules if they want stick it to someone?

“That amended language is very clear that it preserves long standing exemptions for ongoing agricultural practices, forest roads. There are a number of very generous exemptions in there particularly for ranchers and farmers that I know have been worried about the effect of this legislation, but in fact those worries are largely unfounded,” she said.

Largely founded? Sorry but in this time of government take over of just about everything….I don’t see anything as “largely unfounded”, do you?

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about:

It adds that any “activities affecting these waters are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.”

Any activity? That allows for a considerable stretch of governmental interference and don’t think the bureaucratic drones working for the government won’t use it.

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