| Memo to McCain: Pork Doesn't Come From Grizzlies |
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| Written by Samantha Hulkower | |
| Wednesday, 20 February 2008 | |
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Look, we like the fact that presumptive GOP nominee John McCain is an opponent of pork projects in the Senate, and as one of five senators not to include any earmarks in bills least year, he can actually walk the walk. But McCain really needs to cut back on the grizzly bear rhetoric. In an effort to brandish his fiscal conservancy, McCain has taken to the airwaves to let Americans know that he is serious about cutting frivolous government spending. In a new campaign ad, he promises that when president, he won't allow your tax dollars to be spent on wasteful projects. He lists several infamous federal misappropriations, such as the 'Bridge to Nowhere' in Alaska, Hillary Clinton's million dollar earmark for a Woodstock Museum, and, of course, a project to study the DNA of grizzly bears. McCain uses the example at many of his events, always with the same joke: "I don't know if it was a paternity issue or criminal, but it was a waste of money." Congress has allocated a total of $4.8 million to be spent on grizzly research. Projects being performed include a US Geological Survey project to capture grizzlies' hair, so that the samples can be used to establish a DNA fingerprint of the animals, and scientists can better track the animals left in the wild. With only 3 percent of the animal's historic population left in the lower 48 states, these bears need all the help they can get. Not surprisingly, scientists who study the bears are irked with the rhetoric. Comments (44)
  written by Andrea, February 24, 2008
I'm against wasteful subsidies too, but I think a better place of Mr. McCain to start is stoppping subsidies to the timber industry, the ranching industry, the mining industry, the fur and trapping industry, the hunting industry and all other industries that lead to the suffering of wildlife.
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Hi Mark. Some responses to the points you raised:
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Now if they want to collect DNA, Eggs and sperm to be stored for the future IF its needed to help restore the population, great do it. But more than that sounds like a waste to me.
Also I don't know if the status of the Grizzly population is on the rise or decline. Which would be important fact for your article. If its rising, more reason this is a pork "grizzly" project. Only reason I mention this because the black bear has been growing in population enough to find their way back to mid to southern parts of Texas. Parts of the world they haven't been in over 100 years. And guess what, they did it on their own. we didn't move them there they found it without us, They just needed help from the law to keep people from hunting them.