How Polar Bears and the Endangered Species Act Affects You

Hugh Hewitt has a wonderfully informative piece on how the recent ruling on Polar Bears will affect you and our future. Please go there!

Here's a sample, but please check out the entire post and its links:

After 18 years of a law practice devoted to counseling landowners, home builders and commercial interests affected by the long arm and severe penalties of the Endangered Species Act, I am used to incredulous looks and outraged oaths from clients coming to grips with the Act's incredible burdens on impacted private citizens.
"Are you telling me I can't build my Burger King because a Delhi Sands flower-loving fly that has never been seen and is above ground only a few days a year might be near-by?"

"I can't build a connector road because the noise from construction might damage the hearing of the Stephens' kangaroo rat thus impairing its reproduction?"

"All construction in San Diego involving impacts to road ruts which might contain Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp is enjoined? All construction?"

Yes, yes, and yes. The list of situations in which the ESA has stopped otherwise legal and fully permitted projects from proceeding is extraordinarily long and getting longer. With Wednesday's decision to list the polar bear as "threatened" the burden on the American economy brought about by the ESA grew exponentially.

This was an important vote that passed last week and unfortunately the masses and group thinkers are more concerned with American Idol and whether or not Mariah Carey was secretly married a couple of weeks ago...HUH?

America is crumbling and we are concerned about the likes of Madonna, Brittany, Mariah, Beyonce, and any other babe du jour who is able to dissuade us from the real societal problems? Puhleeeese...is the entire universe infected with Attention Deficit Syndrome?

Again I say, wake up America!!!