“I’ve preserved more than 3 million acres of public lands
for future generations, and I am not finished,” President Obama proudly
declared before signing a proclamation newly designating the 500,000-acre Organ
Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in New Mexico in mid-May. “I’m
searching for more opportunities to preserve federal lands where communities
are speaking up, because wherever I see an opening to get things done for the
American people, I’m going to take it.”
In the perfect centrally-planned fantasy world inhabited
by Obama and his fellow Big-Government progressives, politicized and top-down
bureaucratic control really is the smartest and most effective means for
ensuring proficient environmental stewardship and preserving our natural
heritage for future generations.
But back here in the real world, Big Government simply
isn’t getting the job done.
Passed at the height of the progressive movement in 1905,
the Antiquities Act empowers the executive to unilaterally declare public
landmarks and assign the federal government with the seemingly simple and
innocuous task of environmental preservation.....To Read More
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