{"id":28744,"date":"2008-03-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:05:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:05:28","slug":"rush_s_morning_update_big_mess_march_24_2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/21\/rush_s_morning_update_big_mess_march_24_2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush\u2019s Morning Update: Big Mess! \r\n\r\nMarch 24, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125101.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"137\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><BR\/><strong>Rush\u2019s Morning Update: Big Mess! <\/strong><\/line><BR\/><strong><strong>March 24, 2008<\/strong><\/strong><\/line><BR\/><img src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125102.ParBottom.95973.ImageFile.jpg\"\/><\/line><BR\/><strong>Watch It!<\/strong> <strong><img src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/VIDEOicon1.gif\"\/> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stream.rushlimbaugh.com\/cgi-bin\/members.cgi?site=rushlimb&#038;type=download&#038;clips=1&#038;stream=2008\/03\/Rush%20Limbaugh%20-%20Mar%2024%202008%20-%20Morning%20Update.mp4\">Download Morning Update Video in QuickTime<\/a><\/line><BR\/><strong>Listen to It!<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mfile.akamai.com\/5020\/wma\/rushlimb.download.akamai.com\/5020\/clips\/08\/03\/MU032408.asx\"><strong>Windows Media Player<\/strong><\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/mfile.akamai.com\/5020\/rm\/rushlimb.download.akamai.com\/5020\/clips\/08\/03\/MU032408.ram\"><strong>RealPlayer<\/strong><\/a> <\/line><\/p>\n<p>You remember last June &#8211;out-of-control wildfires claiming 254 homes in the Lake Tahoe basin? Well, now the Associated Press, using the Freedom of Information Act, has obtained over 4,000 pages of documents from the agencies involved at all levels of government:local, regional, state, and federal.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that homeowners\u2019 pleas to their local government for fire roads to be cut near their homes were ignored for years, though homeowners warned that the catastrophic fires were a real threat. There was nonstop infighting between competing environmental, planning, and fire prevention agencies. Battles over jurisdiction and policy prevented the critical clearing of brush and timber&#8211; as did the ever-present environmentalist wacko agenda, which values animal life more than human life. Innovative measures to thin out the forests while protecting the environment were not implemented, due to bureaucratic wranglingand,of course,protests.<\/p>\n<p>AP uncovered one e-mail exchange in which a government official emphasizes the need for agencies to be <emphasize>politically correct<\/emphasize>&#8212; even as critical advice on properly maintaining the forests was ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Now, none of this surprises <emphasize>me<\/emphasize> in the least.Do you remember Vice President Algore\u2019s claim that he &#8220;reinvented government&#8221;?And Bill Clinton\u2019s State of the Union declaration that the &#8220;era of Big Government&#8221; was over? Neither was true. Big Government\u2019sinherently inefficientand ineffective. And if Big Government can\u2019t even manage to clear brush from known fire zones, just imagine how it is going toscrew up your health care! <\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush\u2019s Morning Update: Big Mess! March 24, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You remember last June &#8211;out-of-control wildfires claiming 254 homes in the Lake Tahoe basin? Well, now the Associated Press, using the Freedom of Information Act, has obtained over 4,000 pages of documents from the agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rush&#039;s Morning Update: Big Mess!   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