• GOP Jobs Plan: More Snakes?
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[URL="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/gop-jobs-plan-more-snakes.php"]TPM [/URL][IMG]http://talkingpointsmemo.com/assets_c/2011/09/Cobra-Hiss-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg[/IMG] [release]Democrats and Republicans all agree that the nation needs to move on a jobs agenda. And Republicans have a new plan: unleash the reins of snake commerce. GOP members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today called attention to a proposed regulation that would restrict the transportation and importation of nine types of snakes, including the Burmese Python. In a new report entitled "Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama's Promise of Regulatory Reform," GOP members cited the proposed snake ban as one of seven examples of red tape choking off job growth in an already ailing economy. One witness invited to testify, snake breeder David Barke, told lawmakers that the rules "threatens as many as a million law-abiding American citizens and their families with the penalty of a felony conviction for pursuing their livelihoods, for pursuing their hobby, or for simply moving with their pet to new state." [URL="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63530.html#ixzz1XxdrsNiN"]Politico[/URL] reports that Florida officials, led by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), are pushing for the new rules because the Everglades are under attack by 100,000 gigantic Burmese pythons who have been accidentally introduced by negligent pet owners. The outside invaders have been on a rampage, devouring native birds and other creatures. One python grew so big that it managed to devour a six-foot alligator before exploding. No really. This actually happened. There's a [URL="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9600151/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/gator-guzzling-python-comes-messy-end/"]photo. [/URL] In the on-going battle over the dismal state of the jobs market, Republicans argue that a "regulatory tsunami" from the Obama administration is choking off jobs growth. Committee members say the free market should handle the giant pythons and that government tampering would "devastate a small but thriving sector of the economy." Democrats on the committee are less than convinced. "With all due respect to our witnesses from the Association of Reptile Keepers, repealing a so-called job-killing regulation to allow more pythons, boa constrictors and anacondas into the United States is not the kind of bold, bipartisan solution Americans are looking for to help the economy," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said in a hearing.[/release] Indiana Jones is reportedly against this particular part of the republican agenda.
[quote]One witness invited to testify, snake breeder David Barke, told lawmakers that the rules "threatens as many as a million law-abiding American citizens and their families with the penalty of a felony conviction for pursuing their livelihoods, for pursuing their hobby, or for simply moving with their pet to new state."[/quote] Oh yea I totally understand this. Why not just lift the regulations? [quote]One python grew so big that it managed to devour a six-foot alligator before exploding. No really. This actually happened. There's a photo.[/quote] Holy fuck kill them, kill them all.
Funny how they're talking about snakes, considering the GOP is basically a bunch of cold-blooded reptilians. :v:
I read "snake commerce" and burst out laughing. Then I realized it was serious and stopped. Then I realized it was the Republicans and laughed again.
Did anyone else think "snake commerce" was some kind of euphemism I did not expect trading of actual snakes
[quote]One witness invited to testify, snake breeder David Barke, told lawmakers that the rules "threatens as many as a million law-abiding American citizens and their families with the penalty of a felony conviction for pursuing their livelihoods, for pursuing their hobby, or for simply moving with their pet to new state."[/quote] Does this mean I can make fashioning furniture out of human skin my hobby and the GOP will back me?
It's obviously the reptilians in government. Their trying to eliminate their natural predators.
Why can't the GOP recognize that the snake trade is actually a blight on the South, with Florida being the hardest hit? It's an industry built on naive Americans buying baby snakes with the belief they're cute, then not knowing how to handle them when they're 8+ foot long reptiles that they usually dump into the wild to destroy the natural ecosystem.
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Perhaps my pet snake will keep the Republicans away.
[QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;32320605]Why can't the GOP recognize that the snake trade is actually a blight on the South, with Florida being the hardest hit? It's an industry built on naive Americans buying baby snakes with the belief they're cute, then not knowing how to handle them when they're 8+ foot long reptiles that they usually dump into the wild to destroy the natural ecosystem.[/QUOTE] Because Republicans.
[QUOTE=Miskav;32328697]Because Republicans.[/QUOTE] Aren't most republicans from the South?
[QUOTE=sonny99;32329177]Aren't most republicans from the South?[/QUOTE] South, being the culture region. South Florida is an area containing Central American, South American, and Caribbean cultures. Therefore it's separate from the Conservative Deep South, and they don't care since the Everglades is hardest hit, which is neither in their region nor their scope of thinking. They have significant difficulty realizing that many times being environmentally friendly can be economically friendly as well. For example, the more you kill the Everglades, the less tourism you get toward the area because "it's turned into a shit hole". Another example, overfishing will have terrible effects on business, because the fish population will end up replenishing itself too slowly to get an ample supply, assuming that the population can replenish itself at all.
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