Jawdropping LTTE

[madamesilverspurs]

Hold environmental groups accountable for spending our money

Environmental groups can sue the heck out of BP, but that won't clean up one grain of sand. Besides, that's my money they're using to sue. How do I figure that? Because the federal government does not generate income, its livelihood is dependent upon taking earned incomes — yours and mine. The government takes our money and gifts it (in the form of grants) to groups like The Nature Conservancy and the far-reaching branches in its family tree. In plain speaking, we're talking about money your government took from you, behind your back, without your permission, and gifted to them. Maybe this dolled-up way of stealing would be a little bit OK, but the way they use our money isn't.

You have the right to demand a citizen's audit of federal grants to environment groups. Once identified, that money should be returned to you. If they keep good books, it should only take about a week. If they can't do that, then you have the right to initiate a full investigation.

Suing BP will not clean up coastal areas impacted by the oil spill. It will, though, further enrich the environmental groups. How? History's been very good to these groups; the feds have also been consistent in simply paying them off, just to make them go away — another ingenious, sneaky way for environmental groups to double, triple, dip into your pocketbook. If environmental groups really wanted to save the environment, they'd take the money honestly raised through memberships and give it, in this case, to Govs. Bobby Jindal and Charlie Crist.

Call your representative the minute you finish reading this, and tell them you want your money back. Tell them you'll use some of it to help those really in need.

Roni Bell Sylvester,

La Salle

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20100609/READERS/100609710/1028&parentprofile=1025

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[pinboy3niner]

1. Looks like BP's LTTE Department has been working overtime. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

2. What utter nonsense.

[Arctic Dave]

3. It is kinda hard to know were to begin with this guy.

Shill or idiot doesn't give him his proper due.

[gratuitous]

4. Outstanding logic

Can we get an audit from the mercenaries the military has hired in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as all the contractors like Halliburton and KBR? How much of my money did those entities waste, and how do I get my money back, Ms. Sylvester? I'll bet it makes whatever went to environmental groups look like chump change!

Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a never-ending stream!

[Scuba]

7. +1,000 Much better than the response I was going to write.

[gratuitous]

13. And what would environmental groups "waste" money on?

Gosh, we might get some more clean water and clean air! What a bunch of radicals.

As for our mercenary friends, we can be pretty sure that the results of their handiwork will never come back to bite us in the backside. Or electrocute someone in the shower. Or turn out bad in any way, shape or form by stirring up hostility and resentment toward their bankrollers (the U.S. taxpayer).

I just wonder what kind of sawdust passes for some people's brains. It's not just dangerous to our national health and security, it's downright embarrassing.

[Blue Owl]

5. Don't sue -- BP will never let it happen again

They've obviously earned Roni Bell Sylvester's complete trust.

:eyes:

[sinkingfeeling]

6. OK, I found out what prompted this letter. In 2003, Landmark Legal

demanded the EPA investigate if the Nature Conservancy had 'misused' any of the $10 million in community grants given to it.

Landmark Legal is a part of the Ronald Reagan Legal Center.

https://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/wildlands_project/landmark_calls_for_probe_into_epa_grants_to_nature_conservancy_2003053033/

http://www.landmarklegal.org/DesktopFrame.aspx?frame=MESSAGE&artnumber=2&modid=633

[corkhead]

8. .

[kayakjohnny]

9. She turns out to be a very googleable woman.....

and she's got quite the mouth. It seems to run constantly:

http://www.google.com/#q=Roni+Bell+Sylvester&hl=en&start=10&sa=N&fp=62c7546c9e19fcb7

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Ooooh, she's an editor and against saving the planet.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/19/united-nations-climate-global-warming-ipcc/

Roni Bell Sylvester, editor of environmental policy site Land and Water USA, told FoxNews.com: "Any policy already made that is connected in any way to climate change/global warming/CO2 theories must be rescinded. Any policy in the works that is connected in any way to climate change/global warming/CO2 theories must be aborted."

[dem mba]

10. those fatcats at the Sierra Club really make me sick...eom

[Ikonoklast]

11. She's a rancher and is therefore subsidized by my tax dollars.

Hypocrite.

[Kerrytravelers]

12. As Ed Helms said in The Hangover.

You are literally too stupid to insult.