Unfortunately, Santana, there's about 1.1 million people in Idaho and about 750,000 in Montana. Population wise, we're (soon moving to Boise) not even a big suburb of LA.
Washington and Oregon have become tree-hugger enclaves.
The first sentence of the article says it all:
"An eight-year effort by President Clinton to slow the progress of logging in U.S. national forests, often thwarted by the Republican Congress, may be coming to an end."
To paraphrase: I couldn't do it legally through the legislative process, so I'm issuing a decree. How is this Constitutional, especially considering that the Constitution doesn't even MENTION Exec Orders? From where is this power derived? From the consent of the governed? Nope, not there. Just usurped, again. How did Jefferson put it, "A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on."
As far as the jobs created by the "wilderness areas," what a crock. Nobody makes good money flippin' burgers for tourists, even assuming tourists would come to an area where they can't access the very area they've come to see. That work is SEASONAL and MINIMUM WAGE which adds up to welfare and unemployment. Meanwhile, they let the damn forest burn to the ground because its "natural" but you can't cut a tree because its somehow not natural.
We need to flush Clintoon ASAP.
