It is Labor Day 2010 and this administration continues to call this past summer, “Recovery Summer”. I’m not exactly sure of what is recovering. Perhaps it is recovering from too many vacations, too many golf games, or too much wasting of taxpayers’ money.
Once again as news broke that the unemployment rate jumped to 9.6%, even after the Federal Government cooked a couple books to ease the “recovery”, the Obama enablers did everything in their power to write puff pieces in an attempt to convince unemployed Americans that things aren’t as bad as they really are.
The active word for the Obama administration has been, “unexpected”. Whenever there is bad news it is “unexpected”. The latest figures on unemployment were, you guessed it, unexpected. And in going right along with the “saved or created” scam that his administration created and saved, there is ample effort to deflect attention away from what is real and focus it on such things as how many new jobs were created. Seriously, does anyone give a rats heinie that 40,000 new jobs were created when three times that number were lost?
Spin! Spin! Spin!
Being the optimistic guy that I’m not, I thought I would take some serious time and make a list of all the good things about having wolves. Well, let’s see…………… Hmmmmmm! Oh! No that’s not any good. But, there’s the……….No wait. That’s awful! I’ll come up with something.
I thought about listing that the wolf hunting seasons were a good thing but you see between Idaho and Montana they killed 260 wolves which represents easily less than 10% of the population. Being that wolves grow at a rate of 30% per year, there was no real reduction. That’s not good.
If we also use the wolf/coyote lovers’ methods of theorizing, because hunters killed 260 wolves, out of spite all the other wolves got together and decided to go out and have new litters 10 times the normal size. With that thinking, hunters saved or created several hundred new born wolves. That’s not good!
Okay! I think I’ve come up with something good about wolves. I was thinking about all that money the ranchers have been getting because wolves killed their livestock. Wolves are responsible for stimulating the economy and thus have saved or created more wealthy ranchers……or something.
It must be a good thing that wolves have “balanced our ecosystems”. If by balanced you mean all wolves and nothing else, it has worked swell. But, we must look at what “unexpectedly” the wolf has saved or created. A report came out just the other day that someone spied a moose roaming around central Idaho. This is proof that wolves are saving the moose population.
Global warming – we know because environmentalists tell us – is killing all the moose. I read a couple months ago that the poor moose around the Yellowstone area are just laying down in the heat and dying. If it hadn’t been for the wolves chasing that moose out of Yellowstone into the cooler climes of central Idaho, that moose would have died. Wolves have saved or created at least six moose.
But, we are headed in the right direction. Joe Biden has no doubts! I know it appears as though the elk are gone, the deer have vanished, the birds have stopped singing, all the little critters have disappeared but all these things are necessary in order to balance our ecosystems.
If it wasn’t for the wolf saving and creating what few animals are left, where would we be?
(Yeah, I know! It’s a slow news day.)
Tom Remington
