The Wall Street Journal came to Fall River with me to talk about Democrats’ future in a city we lost for the first time in a century.
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This may be the worst argument I’ve seen and proves that they really think you’re that stupid and they hate you.
A fundamental underpinning of the American ideal was that you may own some land, but the wildlife belonged to “all”. This concept was a stern rebuke of “the King’s deer” philosophy of Europe.
This meant that not only could early settlers (and henceforth) fill their freezers with meat/fish, but they now shared a collective interest in managing that wildlife.
We injected that philosophy with steroids when we opened the Frontier, rejecting the landed gentry of the South and the barren private woods of New England. A gift so grand as to be priceless.
This is the bedrock of the North American Model of Wildlife Management. It is a perfect blend between interests (capitalism) that creates an unambiguously positive cycle, via the mechanism of the Pittman-Robertson Act.
Spend money on gear to hunt & fish>special tax allocated to conservation of wild places & salaries of wildlife biologists to use evidence based science where outdoorsman are but one of many tools>wildlife thrives>people keep showing up and spending money.
The alternative to this system is the African Model of Wildlife Management where only the wealthy can hunt private lands, thus requiring exorbitant fees from one to refill conservation coffers to a paltry level. Ecological ruin awaits ye who enter here.
America is, or was, a rebuke of the European oligarchy. Where the common man could share in the wonder and, through that, hold stock in its preservation.
Mike Lee and his ilk are a virus set on devouring that ideal. And, thus, are anti-American. Your boos mean nothing Clint Brown, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
Were Teddy Roosevelt alive today, he would no doubt cane these people on the Senate floor, and the constituents of the Left and the Right would clap in unison.
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Scott Turner, Trump's pick for HUD Secretary, is a man of incredibly infectious optimism, faith and love for people. Genuine love for helping others.
AND a guy with a background in multifamily housing development!
Plus champion of Opportunity Zones.
Home run.