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Obama the Job-Killing Owl-Killer

tired-of-it Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 11:08 AM

Take note that the O administration is raising the "death tax" I think I read to 55% which will within a generation destroy all of the family run farms. Leaving only corporate farms that can more easily controlled by the federal government. I am sure that cannot be the intent. Nope not even feasible.

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Obama the Job-Killing Owl-Killer

Welcome to the pretzel logic of liberal environmental protection: In order to "save" owls, the Obama administration is going to shoot them dead.

This is not -- I repeat not -- an Onion parody.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House released a big fat policy turkey: its final critical habitat rule for the endangered northern spotted owl. The Obama plan will lock up 9.6 million acres of land (mostly, but not all, federal) in Oregon, Washington and northern California. This is nearly double the acreage set aside by the Bush administration. Thousands of timber workers (along with untold thousands of related support...

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