It’s no secret -- America has been blessed with enormous natural resources. But government has made it increasingly impossible for industry to develop these resources, either for domestic use or for foreign export. No less an American institution than cattle raising is facing extinction. Beef is being imported from Mexico and Canada, timber from New Zealand. Why? Certainly with America’s plentiful forests, importing timber from New Zealand can’t be efficient.

Much of the answer to this decline can be found in the oppressive regulatory policies inhibiting domestic resource industries. Certainly one of the greatest sticks felt by the timber harvesting industry has to be the onerous government regulations designed to tie up forests and "rewild" the west. Equally to blame are the legal challenges from radical environmental groups. But looking deeper we find that globalists, particularly acting through the federal government with taxpayer money or through tax-exempt foundations, have been funding the start-up of these groups as well.

Recommended reading:

Engineered Extinction - The New American - December 1, 2003

Government policies threaten our jobs, economy and national security by destroying America’s basic resource industries — mining, forestry, farming and ranching.

Private Land Lockup - The New American - May 20, 2002

Federal and state agencies are, in essence, pulling the land right out from under the feet of private property owners as part of the United Nations’ radical Wildlands Project.

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