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| About
the Painted Rocks Guardian's News, Links, & Commentary Section |
| It is
a daily look at environmentally related stories from
around the country, many of which are illustrative of the high
level of incompetence (and worse) existing within most of the
government entities currently charged with administering our
nation's parks, forests, other public lands, waterways, and
airsheds. As you read these news stories from many
different sources, you will note that almost all environmental
protection/preservation efforts and programs to save our
nation's public treasures originate from private environmental
organizations, often times via court order, and NOT through the
respective governmental agencies with primary administration
responsibilities. Most of these governmental entities (e.g., the
Forest Service) have become top heavy with many levels of career
bureaucrats who, instead of protecting and preserving the
nation's priceless resources, are 'busy' catering to
consumptive/extractive industry interests in the course of
administering politically designed social welfare employment
programs and wealth redistributionist grant programs. While the
current system is almost hopelessly corrupt at many levels, it
is being increasingly understood as such by the general public.
Increased general public awareness of the problem is necessary
to trigger environmentally informed political actions that will eventually
save the nation's public treasures. Effective solutions to
the current situation will most likely involve the
deconstruction of several bureaucratic agencies as they exist
today with a functional redesign that will shift major policy
development and administrative direction authority into the
hands of environmental groups/organizations (as contrasted with
agency hand-picked and selected 'citizen groups' dominated by
consumptionists) and out of the hands of self-interested
bureaucrats and extractive industry interests. - Bill McKee - Editor.
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