Out Of Control > Please Voice Your Opinion

 
Folks it is my opinion New York State government is getting out of control and we need to stop this madness.
With the Highest taxation in the nation and increasing by the day it's clearly (imo) becoming an un affordable place in which to inhabit. We are forced into new regulations aimed at the working man and (woman) but gov’t protects the higher anarchy of the big business (to an extent) and the all mighty rich & famous who feel no pain or strain , it's just another coin. As an Example I’ll use gasoline first: OK gas prices are high , fact, what used to cost me $50.00 to travel to work a week is now $85.00.
Honestly it is what it is, I still need to get there. My complaint is home heating oil !!! The higher price of gasoline should more than off set the cost of fuel oil to heat our homes in the Northeast. How in the world can someone expect a senior citizen or someone on a fixed income to afford to heat their home ? You can't . It's becoming scary, people will freeze to death because they can't afford fuel & electric .
Now the Big blow just came down. More regulation !!!!!!!1
There is a proposal to ban moving firewood more than 50 miles from its origin, mind you there is no regulation towards industry (I worked in a saw mill and was a logger) what ever they (gov't) says it's not there.
Here again is my complaint and example:
with the unaffordable cost of heating oil I looked towards alternate source , firewood. I live on 2 acres of property , but I own 800 acres of forest land (which i have logged) 80 miles from my home. Under this new regulation I am no longer to cut firewood and transport it to heat my home. RIDICULOUS, it's my property. This is not recreation or sport regulation, but a regulation to control our being.
This is just the beginning of Gov't wanting total control of our lives , hum, sounds like communism.

Please read the proposed regulation and I urge everyone to respond to shoot this down. If not it will affect everyone in some way at some time.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/2359.html
 
This is total B.S. , we must stop this regulation. Will I abide by this law (communism) ?   A big fat NO.........
Again please submit your comments to  
Bruce Williamson
NYS DEC, Bureau of Private Land Services
625  Broadway
Albany, NY 12233-4253
(518) 402-9425
email > firewood@gw.dec.state.ny.us

Yeah, absolutely ridiculous you aren't allowed to bring your own trees home. I own 138 acres, within 50 miles. If it were further, I would honestly flip the gov't the bird and take it home anyway.

Well isn't this the same sorta thing but with a bug instead of a weed ?
 
Hardly:
79 suggested purposely introducing a non native species, as said I'm quite sure he was joking.
Fishing is a recreation and a sport not a way of life unless your a Native American or Eskimo and then special provisions are given. Rock Snot is easily controlled by some simple steps of just washing off your equipment. there so far have been no closed waters and if there were, so be it, again it's a recreation not a necessity. I doubt with the revenue taken in from sporting licenses you will see a ban on recreational fishing, alas VHS, the fishing didn't stop but the rules changed .

Heating ones home IS a necessity to maintain a way of life. there has been no stopping the importation of foreign oil or goods ?
For the gov't to say one can NOT use the resources from ones land to maintain a way of life is communism, plain and simple. If they were to say you can't transport firewood for recreation I would be fine with that and buy my camp wood locally (as I do anyway) It supports the local economy
The DEC has NOT said I can't sell logs from my property to be shipped anywhere I chose, only firewood, again If that were the case , so be it but It would cripple the lumber industry and there are no plans to do that. No gain is made in tax revenue to NYS by people using firewood to heat their homes. Gov't wants to have control over us with our dependency for oil.

These are just my opinions towards this situation and am only trying to inform people. I suggested If you have similar concerns than contact a state representative. I will not continue to dwell or defend my beliefs on my rights to maintain a quality of life. But to do nothing is just letting others decide for you.


 

The hell of it is, we never "own" anything - the government lets us "rent" it, while we live, (as long as we pay the tax), and the next in line gets to "rent" it for the next period! If not, the government re-possesses it, sells it to the next "renter" or keeps it - whereupon the tax bill is passed on to the remaining "landowners"!