Wednesday, June 4th - Hero: Union County, SD

This is a news story that probably won't make the major outlets.

The little county of Union, South Dakota had a special item on their Democratic Primary vote Tuesday. The vote was to approve zoning for a new Refinery. And it passed, by a large margin.

Yes, I said Refinery. Hyperion, a Dallas based company, is looking to build the first new refinery in the US in 32 years. It will be a $10 Billion dollar project, employ 4500 construction workers during the build and nearly 2000 permanent workers in the 50-75k salary range.

This will be a HUGE boon for the area, and the whole state of South Dakota. And brother, they need it. In fact, we all need it.

Of course, this isn't a slam dunk. The story also quoted one of the leaders of the opposition campaign. Of course, these tree huggers are calling themselves the 'Save Union County' group.

Here's my question - who are they saving it for? The population of the region has dwindled down to hardly anything. There's no money, no jobs, and no hope for jobs if the refinery doesn't happen.

Let's think about this whole 'Save the Planet' thing for a moment. Who, exactly, are these groups out to save? Early on they claimed to want to preserve our earth for future generations of humans. Can't have the purple billed hornsoggle disappear from earth before our great great grandchildren can 'experience' them. I don't know about you guys, but the T-Rex wasn't preserved for our experience and I'm actually pretty happy about that...

The other message is that we have to preserve our resources for the 'future'. This one gets me, in one breath we are told that our planet is going to burn up because we are getting too close to the sun, or that Global Warming is going to cause the planet to be flooded because the all the ice is melting, but at the same time we have to 'preserve the resources'! For whom, exactly??? It reminds me of back in the 70's and everyone was saying we would be out of water by the year 2000. Even in elementary school I was confused, because it seemed to me that water was a renewable resource. I thought that whole cycle was a pretty brilliant move on God's part!

Bottom line, all these environmentalist seem to be concerned about is saving Animals and Resources. All of us human beings are on our own. While all their lobbying and filibustering are preventing us from using the resources that our Creator provided us, prices are going through through roof and people are suffering. I read an article the other day that said the average person on Food Stamps and WIC are running out of benefits by the 14-16th of each month. This is because food prices are so high, because gas prices are so high and because corn prices have been driven up by the Environmental Ethanol debacle. Don't even get me started on that!

So, while these short-sighted 'protectors of the Universe' go about doing the dirty work of the Liberal Socialists, real people (mostly children and elderly) will die. Some will die from hunger and malnutrition, some will die when they can't afford to cool their homes this summer, some will die because of their feelings of hopelessness.

Who, exactly, are we saving the Planet for??

Peace, Love, and God.
Tracy