>Extreme large problems require extremely large
>sums of funding. Politicians
>create policy, and control regulations,
>in countless different ways and
>through countless different methods, FOR
>AND AGAINST YOUR AND MY
>OUTDOOR/WILDLIFE INTERESTS AND LIFE STYLE.
>
>
>If your going to accomplish, ANYTHING,
>for or against, present and
>future hunting and fishing issues,
>you damn well better be
>as deeply involved in politics
>as your panties will allow
>you to get.
>
>We can scream, cry, belch, beller,
>bawl, squall, b!tch, twitch, and
>spew, on social media, to
>the newspapers, to your legislator,
>to the neighbor, to you
>wife and your girl friend,
>or anyone else, that;
>"playing politics over biology" is
>stupid, evil, dangerous, misguided, and
>unethical until the proverbial "cats
>come home", but it still
>will not, can not, and
>never will, change the reality
>of the American system, where
>by all public regulations are
>made by elected officials and
>the bureaucracies these politicians create.
> If you're going to
>play big, you are going
>to be in the mud
>with those that make the
>rules. If you haven't
>come to understand that............check with
>the Bundy folks. Sh!tty,
>yes. Reality?............Hell yes.
>
>Big job! Bring big money!
> Bring a big stick!
> Be prepared to hit
>with every ounce of strength
>you can gather and be
>prepared get hit back harder!
>
>
>As Taya Kyle said on Friday
>night, "No matter what you
>do, someone is going to
>hate you for it!"
>
>These millions SFW is raising and
>spending, on "POLITICAL WILDLIFE HUNTING
>CONSERVATION" is peanuts, ya, chicken
>feed, compared to the money,
>power and influence the anti's
>are raising and spending on
>the political process!
>
>Question..........how much in "Consulting Fees" is
>enough to pay someone to
>"stand in the gate" on
>your behalf, to defend your
>lifestyle? $5, $100,
>$500,000, $1,000,000? What's
>it worth to you?
>What if we have to
>pay a $1,000,000 to the
>executive directors on 10 different
>wildlife hunting conservation organizations?
>Would that be worth it,
>to safe our life style
>for future generations? $10,000,000?
>
>
>Is it worth that, to you?
>
>
>Especially, when your only being asked
>for a $100 or so
>per year, while some guy
>that owns a car dealership,
>or a clothing company, or
>a pro-hockey team, or a
>lead mine, or a chain
>of restaurants, is willing to
>give the org. a million
>dollars a year to kill
>a water locked deer in
>a State park or a
>couple of dozen elk on
>Federal Forest land.
>
>What's it worth! What are
>you willing to "pay" to
>keep your life style?
>
>And one more thing..................500 pound gorillas
>cost a hell of a
>lot, in case you haven't
>noticed what Warren Buffet, Bill
>Gates, and the rest of
>the highly successful business people
>in the world have accumulated
>for their "consulting fees" to
>their stock holders.
>
>Course, their are a few folks
>that "hate" the Bill Gates/Steve
>Jobs technology they use to
>communicate on, and resent the
>money that guys that provide
>it, earn for their expertise.
> Go figure!
>
>Still more......lots more. What kind
>of an idiot would a
>guy who is fighting off
>the anti's every day (politician
>and philosophically) be, if
>he open his checking resister,
>and revealed his every expenditure,
>that lay out his strategies,
>to protect hunting wildlife, to
>anyone, beyond the very limit
>that is required by law?
>
>
>To suggest that using a percentage
>of the revenue that is
>raised by the org. by
>any means they have at
>their disposal, be it from
>public or private sources, to
>build future herds and hunting
>opportunities, because it's not specific
>to "dirt" / "on the
>ground" conservation because it is
>outside the "scope" of true
>wildlife conservation is naive to
>the reality of what is
>necessary to plant more bitter
>brush, transfer mt. goats, increase
>turkey populations, build guzzlers for
>desert chukars, elk and deer,
>and is dangerously narrow minded.
> Any conservation group that
>isn't spending some of there
>revenue, raised for either public
>or private sources, on other
>tha "dirt projects" is not
>worth a pound of salt.
>
>
>To ask for and even demand
>that the org comply with
>the laws of the land?
>Absolutely! To demand that
>they share one iota of
>the strategic use of the
>funds that are raised, by
>any source, beyond what is
>required by law, is ridiculous
>at the least, and naive
>at best.
>
>As Zeke SO SIMPLY AND CLEARLY
>said, if you don't want
>to donate, don't. If
>you mistrust, "go else where".
> If you don't like
>what the State politicians are
>doing with State resources (State
>tags) (ya, the State owns
>the tags) vote for someone
>else, we'll see you at
>the voting booths in November,
>my goriila against yours".
>
>Ya, Zeke's right, as usual.
>
>DC
"Extremely large sums of funding".
Per the UDWR 2015 budget Revenue types chart:
1) Restricted Funds (licenses and permits)- $36,409,154
2) Federal Funds (tax on ammo, guns, bows)- $25,681,768
3) Dedicated Funds (donations & DWR ops) - $13,094,704
4) General Funds (State income taxes) - $5,983,309
Total - $81,168,943
So, SFW is directly responsible for about 4%($3M)of UDWR's funding, while the remaining organizations are directly responsible for about another 4% ($3M) and us fools on the welfare bus (including hunters and non-hunters) are pretty much responsible for the remaining 92% of UDWR's funding. So, who should have the biggest voice?
The ends justify the means? In your world maybe, but not in mine! I have a family, friends and a God who thinks otherwise. I, for one, won't drink whiskey with anyone, let alone the Devil just to support one of my hobbies.
If you and SFW are so dead set on complying with the law when it comes to disclosure of spending, why didn't the DWR, the Expo Partners and the Wildlife Board follow their own regulations when issuing the contract? I guess they're allowed to pick and chose which laws, rules and regulations to obey, huh?
Also, I've noticed that Tristate is so adamant about what Hawkeye's "real" goal/motive is that he even reads minds. I also noticed that he hasn't even asked you what your "real" goal/ motive is. Care to elaborate? If not, maybe we can get Tristate to read your mind as well. After all, we should be able to hear both sides of the issue.
Tomorrow, huh?