It's illegal to strip mine, clear cut, or drill in a national park. In fact, it's illegal to mine or cut at all in a national park. What you're thinking of is national forests. Those were planned with logging, mining, and drilling in mind. Federal regulations require you follow a certian pattern and stay within certain guildlines. This ensures that the forest will regrow before anyone is allowed to log it again.
there is this guy named clarke that spells this out in a first hand account. of course no one here will listen, hence your question.
Yeah, the same guy's who is being indicted for purgury because he has made contradictory statements under oath. Sure, Clarke was good at his job and, in retrospect, Clinton and Bush both should have listened to him about bin Laden, but hindsight's 20/20, and they both had other advisors pointing them in other directions, along with many other things to worry about. Now, he's just jumping on the "bash Bush and sell a book" bandwagon. He's a weasel.
you'd better believe it! to be in the running is an honor in itself. and you are voting for him. that's just sad.
I guess voting for Kerry is the safter vote. No matter what issue you're talking about or which side of it you're on, it's a guarantee that Kerry is with you on that issue. Hey, it's like getting two viewpoints for the price of one! What a deal! Also remember that according to his estimates on how many jobs have been lost every year, we now have a negative number of jobs in American (do the math. According to Kerry, enough jobs have been lost every year that the number of jobs lost would now be greater than the work force)
it's been three + years. it's about time we start holding this tax slasher accountable for some of it!
Ok, my dad's a CPA and I talk quite often with one of his good friends, a college professor with a Ph.D. in economics, so here's the benifit of tax cuts 101:
In a failing economy, the problem is that not enough money is being spent. The way to fix this is to put money in the hands of the people. They spend some and save some. What is spent is put in the hands of more people, who will spend some and save some, etc., causing an exponential effect on the economy, and every time money changes hands, it is taxed. This is basic Keynsian economics and is the philosophy followed by FDR (Keynes was in his cabinet). During the Great Depression, FDR created several government organizations designed to give jobs to the unemployed, or at least get them some money so they wouldn't starve. Well, most of these measures take a long time to enact and are only good for extreme recessions (the one we have now is nothing compared to the Depression, during which the unemployment rate rose to 33%), and the rest were declared unconstitutional in the late 30s, so that's out. Bush needed a quick way to put money back in the hands of the people, so he cut taxes. In the short run, that's less money for the federal government, but in the long run, it stimulates the economy without causing an inflation increase. The tax cut was a good idea and it's working. Many new businesses are starting up across the country, and due to the way the info is collected, these don't have much of an impact on the official unemployment rate, as most of the businesses polled are large corporations.