Comments on: I Want Wildlife To View But I Don’t Want To Pay http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Remington http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9175 Tom Remington Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:11:19 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9175 Rat - I wondered the same about that comment concerning those who don't care. I thought it was rather odd. It sounded more like a comment from someone that was a bit angry about how things were being done maybe but I agree with your question. How DO you weigh the interests of those who don't care. I always thought that if someone didn't care, they had no interest. Good point! Rat – I wondered the same about that comment concerning those who don’t care. I thought it was rather odd. It sounded more like a comment from someone that was a bit angry about how things were being done maybe but I agree with your question. How DO you weigh the interests of those who don’t care. I always thought that if someone didn’t care, they had no interest.

Good point!

]]> By: Desert Rat http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9174 Desert Rat Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:16:21 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9174 We're enduring the same thing here in Arizona. Hunters pay for all of these programs. Let the "wildlife viewers" pay as well. Just recently, the Legislature here "swept" funds form Game and Fish that were dedicated to Game and Fish - to add insult to injury. http://arizonahuntingtoday.com/desertrat/2008/06/20/679/ Something else struck me in the quotes above - how do you weigh the interests of people who "don't care"? We’re enduring the same thing here in Arizona. Hunters pay for all of these programs. Let the “wildlife viewers” pay as well. Just recently, the Legislature here “swept” funds form Game and Fish that were dedicated to Game and Fish – to add insult to injury. http://arizonahuntingtoday.com/desertrat/2008/06/20/679/

Something else struck me in the quotes above – how do you weigh the interests of people who “don’t care”?

]]> By: BA http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9173 BA Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:42:39 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9173 Thank You, Tom. For the most part we're on the same page! This reminds me of when the big change occurred in this country. I'm not sure of the date. But when you pulled into a gas station, the attendants rushed out to wash your windshield, put the gas in your tank, check your oil and tires, took your money and brought back the change and said thank you. When you went to a grocery store and pushed your cart up to the checkstand, the clerk unloaded it and checked out your order. A bagger bagged everything and helped you carry everything to the car and helped you put it in the car. Bingo! All of a sudden this kind of behavior all came to a screeching halt. Now we the customers are their slaves. We need them, they don't need us type of attitude. Most of these workers? act like they're doing you a favor to wait on you. When this change took place, that was the end of America as I knew it. That was the end of Capitalism. Does anyone else remember these days when the customer was always right? Or am I the only one? Whenever we went to a relatives or a friends place to hunt for the weekend, we always took a truckload of groceries with us. I don't see this attitude anymore either. Things have really changed and looking at the political landscape, they're going to change again in a sharper turn in the same direction. To the left. If you dare say anything against the way things are, they say you're being Negative. Or they say you're a radical. In that case it wasn't too long ago that the radical was the Standard Operating Procedure for decent people. Will the pendulum ever swing back to Decency? Thank You, Tom. For the most part we’re on the same page! This reminds me of when the big change occurred in this country. I’m not sure of the date. But when you pulled into a gas station, the attendants rushed out to wash your windshield, put the gas in your tank, check your oil and tires, took your money and brought back the change and said thank you. When you went to a grocery store and pushed your cart up to the checkstand, the clerk unloaded it and checked out your order. A bagger bagged everything and helped you carry everything to the car and helped you put it in the car.

Bingo! All of a sudden this kind of behavior all came to a screeching halt. Now we the customers are their slaves. We need them, they don’t need us type of attitude. Most of these workers? act like they’re doing you a favor to wait on you.

When this change took place, that was the end of America as I knew it. That was the end of Capitalism. Does anyone else remember these days when the customer was always right? Or am I the only one? Whenever we went to a relatives or a friends place to hunt for the weekend, we always took a truckload of groceries with us. I don’t see this attitude anymore either. Things have really changed and looking at the political landscape, they’re going to change again in a sharper turn in the same direction. To the left. If you dare say anything against the way things are, they say you’re being Negative. Or they say you’re a radical. In that case it wasn’t too long ago that the radical was the Standard Operating Procedure for decent people. Will the pendulum ever swing back to Decency?

]]> By: Tom Remington http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9172 Tom Remington Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:54:06 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9172 BA - I think you have hit on something not everyone can see. You asked if they (not sure who they is) are trying to take the excitement out of hunting like that of capitalism and the answer is yes. Like with every aspect of our society "they" will not be happy until it has all become socialized, dumbed down to veritable uselessness, IMO! I suppose in time all hunting will cease. The game animals will be for the people (actually the government) and certain individuals will be appointed by the government to become animal population control personnel. Of course all harvested game is the property of the state and the meat, once the state takes its share, will be apportioned back to the peasants. BA – I think you have hit on something not everyone can see. You asked if they (not sure who they is) are trying to take the excitement out of hunting like that of capitalism and the answer is yes.
Like with every aspect of our society “they” will not be happy until it has all become socialized, dumbed down to veritable uselessness, IMO!
I suppose in time all hunting will cease. The game animals will be for the people (actually the government) and certain individuals will be appointed by the government to become animal population control personnel. Of course all harvested game is the property of the state and the meat, once the state takes its share, will be apportioned back to the peasants.

]]> By: BA http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9171 BA Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:26:32 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9171 From what I see this is a typical scenario in most states. Looks like the management is suffering from a mental disorder called "Political Correctness". The shoe is on the wrong foot. Instead of us hunters paying for a license and tags, they should be paying us for our service of Animal Population Control. After all it does seem like we are being used for that purpose for the good of all. Are they trying to take the excitement out of hunting like they have taken the excitement out of Capitalism? It's kind of like making us pay to work a job rather than the other way around. The objective of the fish and game dept's. inverted 180 degrees? From what I see this is a typical scenario in most states. Looks like the management is suffering from a mental disorder called “Political Correctness”.

The shoe is on the wrong foot. Instead of us hunters paying for a license and tags, they should be paying us for our service of Animal Population Control. After all it does seem like we are being used for that purpose for the good of all. Are they trying to take the excitement out of hunting like they have taken the excitement out of Capitalism? It’s kind of like making us pay to work a job rather than the other way around. The objective of the fish and game dept’s. inverted 180 degrees?

]]> By: Tom Sorenson http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9170 Tom Sorenson Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:17:02 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/07/02/i-want-wildlife-to-view-but-i-dont-want-to-pay/#comment-9170 Good point. Makes me feel sort of stupid that I never thought of it before. Good point. Makes me feel sort of stupid that I never thought of it before.

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