These Democrats just can’t leave well enough alone. They will not rest until they control every aspect of our lives – even our mud puddles.
The Clean Water Restoration Act currently pending in the U.S. Senate could reach to control even a “seasonal puddle” on private property.
Eleven senators and 17 representatives in the U.S. House have sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasting the measure as one of the boldest property grab attempts of all time.
This bill is described by opponents as a sweeping overhaul of the Clean Water Act that could threaten both physical land and jobs by wiping out some farmers entirely.
“Right now, the law says that the Environmental Protection Agency is in charge of all navigable water,” said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Western Caucus and an opponent of the bill.
“Well, this bill removes the word ‘navigable,’ so for ranchers and farmers who have mud puddles, prairie potholes — anything from snow melting on their land — all of that water will now come under the regulation of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency,” he said.
Barrasso said the federal government’s one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work in the west where the Rocky Mountain states have gone even further than Washington to protect land, water and the environment.
“The government wants control of all water — that also means that they want control over all of our land including the private property rights of people from the Rocky Mountain west, the western caucus and the entire United States,” he said.
But Jan Goldman-Carter of the National Wildlife Foundation said fears by ranchers and farmers are unfounded.
“That amended language is very clear that it preserves long standing exemptions for ongoing agricultural practices, forest roads. There are a number of very generous exemptions in there particularly for ranchers and farmers that I know have been worried about the effect of this legislation, but in fact those worries are largely unfounded,” she said. …
Senator Barrasso was on Fox News this morning to discuss this issue. He tried to have the words “mud puddles” and “prairie potholes” taken out of the legislation and the Democrats told him no. Watch to the end and listen to what Barrasso has to say about the environmentalists, their law suits and the EPA.
What’s next, water in a cup? This is exactly what the left is about. Control EVERYTHING at ANY cost. These people have a conditioned behavior to an agenda and unfortunately have been unleashed at this time in history to thwart common sense and shackle humanity with their ideology. When will voters learn to reject this? They are imposing the exact controls and restrictions our founding fathers tried to protect us from constitutionally. Where is the rejection? I guess you would not resist if you had no knowledge of the transgression or an education of constitutional rights, the two critical elements that the MSM and the public school system are trusted and tasked with to serve the American people that have been polluted by statists and progressives intent on destroying the republic and culture as we know it.
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