Mining is California's Greatest Threat?

After reading a article in the Liberal Agenda Times (LA Times) entitled "Mining Claims seen as threat", I was appalled at the author's complete lack of knowledge and their willingness to push the left winged eco-nuts radical propaganda as facts. The article begins with the claim that 21,300 mining claims have been staked within 10 miles of California's national parks". There is a good reason for this. For years, the government, which owns most of the land in the West, has, at the encouragement of the California senators and congressmen, taken thousands of square miles of "dual use" land and made it off limits to any use, other than walking across. The Eco Nuts were ecstatic with each huge parcel of public land added to their rattlesnake preserve. Dual use means that business use and recreational use of the land can co-exist on public land, and has been the norm for many years for all but the most sensitive public land. The land, after all, is owned by all citizens of the United States, not just the Environmental Organizations.

Who would pay? Who else, all Americans would pay through the nose for the bad decisions that Mr. Horwitt (JD), the Environmental Movement, the House and Senate want to legislate. In return they would generate a few billion in new revenue, which will be tossed down the rathole like they always seem to do, on futile projects that have little real benefit for society, while destroying an entire industry. A Liberal Democratic Congress always wants to raise taxes and fees, take income from the "wealthy" (of which we all be eventually classified as wealthy), to put government in control of our lives. After looking at history, I don't think government can control itself, much less our lives, and I do not know of one person that wants the government controlling their life. Mr. Horwitt (JD), and his associates of the Left, do want to control our lives and send us the bill.

It is past time to stand up and "Just Say No" to these morons. We do not need the government to "give" us any more, because we simply can't afford the bill that comes with their "gifts". Their "gifts" always end up costing us a portion of our future and a large chunk of our income, while making little, if any difference in our lives and the lives of our children.