Obama admin asserts dominion over creeks, streams, wetlands, ditches — even big puddles

[Freewill]

Notice, done on the weekend? A holiday week end no doubt. I think it is clear now, Americans own NOTHING. You think you own your house, don't pay your taxes and see who owns your house. You think you are debt free, hardly the Obama administration has sealed that deal. Every citizen owns 56,000 dollars in federal debt. The average American, so I am told, is 225000 dollars in debt. This can't be sustained.

Any way here is the article on how we are yet losing to the federal government. Man does this hope and change stuff suck.

President Obama’s administration on Wednesday claimed dominion over all of America’s streams, creeks, rills, ditches, brooks, rivulets, burns, tributaries, criks, wetlands — perhaps even puddles — in a sweeping move to assert unilateral federal authority.

The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, says it has the authority to control all waterways within the United States — and will exercise that authority.



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[Freewill]

Don't look at this, very depressing: U.S. National Debt Clock Real Time

 

[CrusaderFrank]

American couldn't survive Bush and Obama.

Maybe we'll follow the Founders Operating manual and hit Ctl Alt Del twice to reboot

 

[depotoo]

I can't wait for this one to hit the courts.

 

[Ringel05]

For all intent and purposes the State of Colorado owns all moisture that is within it's borders, including rainfall.

 

[Moonglow]

I can't wait for this one to hit the courts.

It's nothing new, it's been a policy for many years...

 

[longknife]

When the EPA fines people for daming up water on their own property from rain fall, nothing is impossible.

 

[Freewill]

“This rule is about clarification, and in fact, we’re adding exclusions for features like artificial lakes and ponds, water-filled depressions from constructions and grass swales,” McCarthy said. “This rule will make it easier to identify protected waters and will make those protections consistent with the law as well as the latest peer-reviewed science. This rule is based on science.”

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Water-filled depressions, sounds like puddles.

 

[Freewill]

I can't wait for this one to hit the courts.

It's nothing new, it's been a policy for many years...

So is Boxer excited about keeping the status quo?

Not surprisingly, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, THE top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, loves the plan.

“The Obama administration listened to all perspectives and developed a final rule that will help guarantee safe drinking water supplies for American families and businesses and restore much-needed certainty, consistency, and effectiveness to the Clean Water Act,” she said in a statement.



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[Dont Taz Me Bro]

This thread is in the Politics forum. If you can't follow the rules then get out.

 

[tyroneweaver]

I can't wait for this one to hit the courts.

we can't do nothing about it, they're already shutting down atv trails in the sawtooth

 

[SuperDemocrat]

They can do all this without them consent of congress.

 

[Old Rocks]

The laws are already there, so the Congress can only rescind the present laws. As water, too much, too little, too polluted affects more and more of us, there will be more and more rules concerning it. Just the effect of an increasing population, and an increasingly unpredictable climate.

 

[depotoo]

Actually these are new rules they are issuing, which they are attempting to define on their own terms, since they felt the SC did not really do it, in their decisions in 2001 and 2006. I will guarantee you they overreach, it will be back in the courts once again.

The laws are already there, so the Congress can only rescind the present laws. As water, too much, too little, too polluted affects more and more of us, there will be more and more rules concerning it. Just the effect of an increasing population, and an increasingly unpredictable climate.

 

[longknife]

Did you know that a rain puddle in your yard could be designated protected watershed under these new rules?

 

[martybegan]

The laws are already there, so the Congress can only rescind the present laws. As water, too much, too little, too polluted affects more and more of us, there will be more and more rules concerning it. Just the effect of an increasing population, and an increasingly unpredictable climate.

So basically your 1984-esque utopia will become reality.

Typical watermelon.