Political Quotes

“the point is that we need to make some changes. There is a problem in this country where we have started passing on unfunded mandates to cities and counties to let them pay for our philosophy changes. This is also a problem where we are passing mandates on to individuals to let them pay for our philosophical changes, while we are taking away people's property, sometimes by poorly written laws, sometimes by poorly written regulations, sometimes by overzealous Government agents. I am a farmer from Michigan. Let me share with you a couple of farm stories. A vegetable farmer was ordered to stop farming when two endangered species were discovered on his farm. The farmer was told he would be allowed to return to farming if he gave the Government 1 square mile of his property and a mitigation fee of $300,000. When the farmer refused this offer, he was fined $300,000. That was 10 years ago. The farmer is still fighting. A family of cabbage growers cannot farm 450 acres of its farmland because the Army Corps of Engineers declared this acreage to be a wetland. Because of the prohibitive court fees, the family could not afford to challenge the decision.…”