Thursday, October 07, 2010

Executive Order Power Grab

My post yesterday at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS....

In the name of environmentalism, Obama yesterday exerted federal control over America's Gulf of Mexico Region (from examiner.com Los Angeles):
...The Federal Government sat on the sidelines for more than five months as Gulf residents lost jobs, homes and self-respect as more and more became sick each day from the deadly toxin, Corexit. The toxin was illegally sprayed on residents, marshlands and habitats. The Administration didn’t act to save the residents, but now the administration is concerned over the ecosystems.

[Yesterday's] Executive Order was similar to Executive Order 13366 issued on July 19 to sieze the Great Lakes for a similar purpose, to... ‘restore biological diversity…improve health of oceans, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems and to support sustainable access to land.” The Great Lakes is overseen by the appointed Great Lakes Czar Cameron Davis, a former Chicago environmentalist.

Protection of residents in both Executive Orders seems to be lacking. Both are considered to be serious violations of property rights.

The Federal Government currently owns more than 30% of United States land and seems to be planning to take more....
The executive order is HERE.

2 comments:

Mr Mayor said...

First they sit on their thumbs during the crisis and now they thumb their collective noses at the residents. POTUS? No POSUS!

Rebellious Kafir said...

Have any of you watched the commercials for reverse mortgages? You take out a loan from the government and don't have to pay it back--your heirs have a chance to pay it back, but if they don't then the gov't gets your property...or do I misunderstand?
If the govt is currently working on a landgrab, what better way to do it than to create a huge economic instability, create massive job losses, put people in such a financial bind that something like a reverse mortgage will sound like a good idea...then...