American bureaucracies are a blood-sucking enterprise that eats at the very heart of freedom, liberty and the property rights of all Americans
Bureaucracies - An Out of Control 4th Branch of Government!
 Peter Goldmark is the new (elected in 2008) Washington State Public Lands Commissioner for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). You wouldn’t think from looking at his picture that he is anything but a real nice guy and is probably a good father, grandfather and husband, for all we know. But his picture belies who he really is ...... an unabashed, radical environmentalist. Here is a short biography of Mr. Goldmark, now a high-paid government politician and bureaucrat.
- Director of Agriculture for State of Washington, appointed by Governor Lowry in 1993
- Chairman of the Governor’s Council on Agriculture and the Environment in 1994-1996
- Governor’s Council for a Sustainable Washington in 2002-2003
- Governor’s Council on Biodiversity in 2004-2005
- Founding board member and past Chairman of the Board of Farming and the Environment, a unique coalition of farmers, ranchers, and conservationists founded in 1999
- Board of Regents of Washington State University, 1996-2005; President of the Board in 1999-2000
- Board of the Washington State University-University of Washington Policy Consensus Center, 2003-2008
- Okanogan School Board, 1998-2005
- Wildland firefighter, Okanogan County, Fire District No. 8 - 30+ years
- Commissioner of Public Lands, 2009
We certainly can’t fault Peter for being a firefighter, but his environmental credentials are laced throughout his bio. In his attempt to re-make, or is it substantially transform the Washington State Department of Natural Resources in his own distorted image, he has put out a survey (click on this link) for “stakeholders” to complete, in order to “assist” Goldmark in making that transformation. It would appear, from the President on down, that Democrats (Goldmark is a Democrat) are out to “transform” America and all of its institutions into a Democrat Oligarchy, or as others have described what their goal is, to transform America into an Absolute Democrat Monarchy. Under that Monarchy, social justice and radical environmental protection (straight out of the United Nations Agenda 21 1992 Earth Summit Playbook) are their core principles and those core principles supersede, in their minds, the Constitution of the United States, so help them no God.
Not unlike “Climate Gate” where scientists cooked the books on science measurements and observations to support their false hypothesis of man-caused global warming, Goldmark’s survey and its questions are designed to arrive at a made-as-instructed outcome, with a heavy radical environmental slant.
Here are just a few examples of the questions in that survey:
- Develop sustainable policies and strategies for agricultural lands and shrub steppe policy.
- Manage aquatic lands sustainably and implement the Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan. (Whatever that is!)
- Strengthen and enforce the forest practice rules (more massive regulations that restrict public access.)
- Work with local governments, legislature, and federal government on behalf of small landowners. (Sure!)
- Contribute to the health of Puget Sound by focusing on forested watersheds. (A bottomless pit of environmental over-regulation and the destruction of constitutionally protected property rights for another manufactured environmental crisis.)
- Plan for sustainable management of aquatic lands. (Sustainable management! What is that?)
- Develop a climate mitigation strategy and develop a climate change adaptation strategy. (Climate Change? You have got to be kidding! It has been cooling for over ten years and the so-called climate scientists can’t account from their data, for the warming period that occurred after the little ice age when there was no man-made CO2 in the atmosphere to act as a “greenhouse” gas that supposedly traps heat in the atmosphere and causes global warming.)
- Develop critical elements of clean energy industry for State lands; promote the use of clean energy resources in State facilities and activities; coordinate with the Department of Commerce on an overall State energy strategy; partner with others to promote and develop clean energy infrastructure. (That’s right, clean energy? Clean energy is defined as very inefficient wind and solar power that requires huge government subsidies [your money] to be viable. So now the DNR is going to allow construction of unsightly wind and solar farms on state lands?)
- Pursue organizational opportunities to enhance agency resiliency; secure the agency’s economic health. (Talk about self serving. Anything goes to keep this very expensive bureaucracy alive, like all American bureaucracies.)
These are just a few of the questions in the survey. There are many more. The agency probably spent over a million dollars of staff time putting the survey together. After all, they don’t care, it’s your money they are spending (wasting). The survey was shamelessly self serving and bent towards a radical environmental result. No where in the survey did they describe what the Hell “sustainable” means. A while back we contacted 7 major environmental organizations and asked them what “sustainable” means. We got seven different answers.
And what does the Department of Natural Resources have to do with “clean energy”? They are managing state lands, not setting policy for an environmental wish list of national and international special interest groups who are trying to turn America into a new, socialist Europe, on steroids.
The real travesty is, the survey will not be filled out by the general public and Goldmark knows it. It will be filled out by special interest groups, mostly environmentalists, and the outcome will be totally pre-ordained. Goldmark will have obtained the results he was looking for from the survey and the general public won’t have the slightest clue as to what just one bureaucracy in America is doing ..... with their money, their rights and their land. From the survey, Goldmark will start the “rule making” process where new and draconian regulations will be promulgated, to the detriment of the people of the state of Washington and their freedom.
Now, add up all the other local, state and federal bureaucracies who are doing exactly what the Washington State Department of Natural Resources is doing under Goldmark and you will get an idea of how deep the problem of bureaucratic growth and rule making is. Bureaucracies, at all levels, are responsible for putting tens of thousands of new rules and laws on the books every single year and they grow in both budget and employees, exponentially, on your backs.
Take for example the Federal Department of Energy. Formed in August of 1977, it was first established to put America on the path to energy independence. It has a current annual budget of $25 Billion dollars, rising from $19 Billion in 2003. It employs over 16,000 men and women in their work force and retains over 100,000 contractors. Just another bureaucracy that has exploded way beyond the original intent of energy independence. Just another out-of-control government bureaucracy that exists of and for itself and feeds off of the American taxpayer. Just another government-run bureaucracy that has so exceeded the limits of the original law-making powers contained in the Constitution, that the Constitution might as well not even exist, or be used in the bureaucracy’s rest rooms until all copies of its 17 pages runs out.
It has been reported that if the Democrat-controlled House and Senate pass the massive take over of the Health Care industry in America and the President signs it into law, it will take over 150,000 high-paid government employees to run the bureaucracy that will be required to administer the health care program. This doesn’t even include the huge bureaucracy that will be required to adminster the cap and trade legislation, now before Congress.
American bureaucracies are a blood-sucking enterprise that eats at the very heart of freedom, liberty and the property rights of all Americans, digs deep into the American economy and burns up countless billions of taxpayer dollars in unneeded and unwanted government services, that only serve to turn free Americans into subjects of an out-of-control, arrogant and abusive government, run by un-elected bureaucrats.
God knows why Americans have put up with this total abuse of power, by all levels of government, for so long. Perhaps it is time to drastically change the dynamics of government all together and return to the roots of our freedom, as burned into the pages of history in our U. S. Constitution ..... by whatever means necessary.
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