This rip-off of a great natural resource is typical of the leftist agenda.
We have a generation, now of voting age, who were indoctrinated into
extreme environmentalism as a religion, yet lack the discipline to pick
up their own trash, and are without the critical thinking skills needed to
maintain a state economy, lacking the social skills needed to raise a family,
and are first in line for tax-payer subsidized benefits, to pad the bumpy ride
once mommies purse has been drained.
This sounds like the rant of a jaded, grumpy, and disappointing old person. Further, it is woefully off-topic, but since you bring it up...
Regardless of your fiscal political leanings, how can someone who has pledged an interest in the outdoors and fishing (I am assuming these, as a symptom of your membership to this forum) not embrace environmentalism as a central tenet to our successful future? You refer to a time "before the fall," which I can only assume refers to a time where there were significantly less people in Oregon and America, and thus more natural beauty and resources. Our resources are not infinite, but the generations who built our socio-environmental culture were brought up to believe they were. If you keep big dogs un-fettered in your back yard, you need to get out the shovel every once in a while, or no one is going to want to play horseshoes at your BBQ.
I have no-clue what the Environmental Impact Statement leading to this Major Federal Action said, or why the conclusion was reached in the way it was, but I can almost guarantee that there will be huge rewards reaped by such a measure. We have spent the last 250 years acting like drunken frat-boys, completely destroying 80% of the natural beauty in our once beautiful country (is it our destroyed natural resources you were referring to as only preserved in "memories and documentary film accounts"?), and now we need to take action to protect what is left.
I am, almost certainly, a member of the generation that you so adamantly admonish for being socially and fiscally irresponsible, and can tell you that, yes, I was indoctrinated with a tilt towards environmentalism that borders on religion. You see, the thing is, your generation (I assume you are from a different generation than my own; a slightly... older generation) helped to create a world where we are faced with a diminishing surplus of natural building materials, open spaces, and energy resources. You raped and pillaged everything that was good for our world, to sustain the gluttonous fancies of what is almost certainly the worst thing for our world. You imply that what is different is bad, and I would argue, as an heir of this failing globe that you helped create, what is different is expedient and paramount to me and
my heirs.
Finally, my social skills are fine, as are my peers. What you fail to see from your couch, watching Fox-News, is a bountiful generation of optimistic, educated, motivated young-people, but we are here. We just feel differently about things than you did. There were no-purse strings that pulled me through seven years of College and Grad-School, nor were they there when I enlisted and commissioned in the Army. I am certainly not alone in these things either. I am sorry that you have become so angry about the corrective actions necessary to clean the backsplash behind your toilet, but I am going to participate in the cleanup efforts none-the-less.
