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I am a conservative but unlike the current breed of "conservatives" I do not believe that the Republican Party is conservative. The current administration is hell bent on spending money taking away rights and playing a shell game with our taxes. I am starting this post to be a direct assault on the radical conservative movement that seeks to distort the record, lie and dupe the American voters into believing they care, are right, and are conservative.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Another reason that I think Bush is Deadly

He made a proposal recently (via his administration) to solve the problem of dwindling wild Chinook and Coho salmon stocks.
Was his solution to repair watershed quality? That is what had begun under Clinton. It provided almost instant increases in fish returns. Seems like a good plan, but nope that was not his idea.
Was it to tear down old dams and stop subsidizing a barge system in favor of an existing railway infrastructure? Nope the dams were actually mandated to be considered a part of the natural ecosystem. As if they had been in place for as long as the salmon and steelhead swam up and down river in their beautiful journey.

His solution rather was to have a massive increase in fish farms.

If you have not ever been to the Pacific Northwest you need to come soon because if Bush gets his way wild salmon will be a thing of the past. A component of native life will be absent (in violation of many treaties) and we will have lost yet another species in pursuit of our dominion over nature.

It is so sad. The short term cost of removing dams or spilling more water at the very least will be more than made up for by the financial gains from a healthy fishery. People who have made their livelihoods fishing for salmon and steelhead will no longer be able to take a city dweller or southerner out to the unimaginable beauty that is the rivers and streams of the Northwest to help them catch a 30lb, 40lb or even larger fish.
Farmed fish pose a health problem. How to deal with those implications? Bush wants to "address those issues later" even though there will be an immediate impact on water quality for everyone downstream.

Shameful behavior. Disgusting mentality.