"It's the Republicans fault!!"

I overheard some people talking this evening about how the Republicans are only thinking about how to make the rich richer. It's the Republicans fault that our environment is deteriorating. Well, I can never back down from getting myself in awkward situations!

I leaned over and said, "The Republican party started the Environmental Protection Agency." First, there was silence. Then there was, "Yeah, so that the Republicans could profit off the deterioration of the environment!!!"

So, I calmly asked, "Until the EPA, what had the liberals done to protect and preserve the environment?" Funny thing... I didn't get an answer. Instead I heard, "That's not important. What's important is that Bush doesn't care about the environment!!" So, I asked (again, calmly) "Really? How did you come to that conclusion?" They both chimed in with "Katrina!!!"

Um... Bush didn't cause Hurricane Katrina. In fact, the governor of Louisiana told the feds and the American Red Cross NOT to come in the day after the hurricane. In cases like this, the federal government can not step in and override what the state has put into place.

But that's not the real reason for this post. In my experience and in my opinion, the Republican party takes on all sorts of different challenges and handles them in a business-like manner. There is no reason why the environment can not be successfully managed in a business-like way! These are goal oriented business men and women who know how to acheive results. They have placed very strict regulations on logging, and you can actually see this in action as you drive through Oregon and Washington. You can see signs that state when an area of trees was harvested, when new trees were planted, and when they can be harvested again.

Just because you are not seeing Conservatives screaming in picket lines doesn't mean that we don't have a heart or have feelings. We too want the planet to thrive. But yelling and screaming won't get it done. Having a sound plan and putting it into action quickly is what we need, and what has been done.

It's like those commercials for registering to vote that we see on TV lately. That could clearly define the difference between the liberals and the conservatives. The libs see garbage on the sidewalk and will stand and complain about how unsightly it is and how could something like that have happened, and the conservative would just quietly walk by, pick it up and throw it away.

I'm seeing no action from the liberals when it comes to conservation and restoration of our resources, but you show me one that doesn't live in a house made of wood and doesn't use water, electricity or gas. In the civilized world, we all use resources. There is nothing wrong with that. But, we have to be smart and give back what we take. And it's not that easy. That action itself needs to be managed properly, or nothing will be done correctly.

If the libs were smart, they would stop all the "save the gay whales" protests and find out what actually needs to be done and DO IT!!!