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burning: Bush
Aug. 24th, 2002 04:12 pmSo Bush goes up to a fire scarred mountaintop to promote giving more timber to logging companies, and says, "what the critics need to do is come stand where I stand. We are trying to bring a little common sense to forest policy." I assume he meant, by "where I stand" that we should stand in the shoes of the industry friendly president.
He said, we need to understand if you let kindling buid up and there;s a lightning strike, you're going to get fire." Well duh, Mr. President. That's how nature gets rid of the kindling - it burns off. Oops, I see your point, that homes may be threatened by this natural occurrence (okay, I know that your point is really welfare to timber companies, but for the sake of argument...), but YOU CAN'T CUT **ALL** OF THE FORESTS DOWN!!! But I guess you'lldo your part to help prevent forest fires. We can't fault you for wanting to protect our very homes.
What this little press-op amounts to is trying to snow the voters into thinking he's doing a good thing. Because he knows as well as I do that giving more timber away is not going to do anything about the fires, in the grand scheme of things.
He said, we need to understand if you let kindling buid up and there;s a lightning strike, you're going to get fire." Well duh, Mr. President. That's how nature gets rid of the kindling - it burns off. Oops, I see your point, that homes may be threatened by this natural occurrence (okay, I know that your point is really welfare to timber companies, but for the sake of argument...), but YOU CAN'T CUT **ALL** OF THE FORESTS DOWN!!! But I guess you'lldo your part to help prevent forest fires. We can't fault you for wanting to protect our very homes.
What this little press-op amounts to is trying to snow the voters into thinking he's doing a good thing. Because he knows as well as I do that giving more timber away is not going to do anything about the fires, in the grand scheme of things.
