{"id":6083,"date":"2011-10-10T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2011-10-10T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:03:22","slug":"republicans-would-destroy-this-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/republicans-would-destroy-this-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans would destroy this beauty!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember, as a child singing, \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d and feeling proud to live in a beautiful land.  Is I grew and traveled about, I have been in every state in the US at one time or another, except Alaska and Hawaii.  I often thrilled at the beauty I saw.  But I\u2019ve seen ugly things too, where people have despoiled the land in order to rip out its treasures for profit.  In their wisdom, past leaders have set aside tracts of land as a heritage for our children, grandchildren, and beyond.  However, the Republican Party seeks to ravage that heritage.  Here is an example of what they are trying to destroy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The 50,000 drivers who cruise daily along Interstate 25 between Denver and Colorado Springs drive through ranch and farm land, marked by dramatic buttes and wild animals, a vista that might have been very different but for a little-known federal program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Land and Water Conservation Fund<\/a> (LWCF), which Congress created in 1965, helped pay for this open space, along with large swaths of land in other areas across the country. But there is a fight looming in Washington as Congress plans to drastically cut the program\u2019s budget, and President Obama, who had accepted cuts in the past, appears ready to oppose them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The White House has warned it will veto<\/a> the House Interior spending bill, in part because of its cuts to the conservation fund program. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a telephone interview that the bill would bring conservation \u201cas close to zero as it\u2019s been in modern times.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fund is supposed to receive $900 million each fiscal year<\/strong> out of U.S. offshore oil and gas revenues to pay for federal land acquisitions. But with the exception of fiscal 1998, its funding has consistently fallen well short of that mark. The 2011 operating plan provided $300.5 million<\/strong>, and although Obama asked for $900 million for fiscal 2012, the pending House appropriations bill for Interior allocates just under $95 million<\/font><\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

What Republicans really want is to provide their criminal corporate cronies the opportunity to profit from despoiling that land.<\/font><\/p>\n

Years ago I lived in Denver and have seen that country.  The photo doesn\u2019t do it justice.  I fully support Obama\u2019s intent to veto this bill and encourage you to do likewise.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember, as a child singing, \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d and feeling proud to live in a beautiful land.  Is I grew and traveled about, I have been in every state in the US at one time or another, except Alaska and Hawaii.  I often thrilled at the beauty I saw.  But I\u2019ve seen ugly things […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}