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Shaun Solomon said:

Also Jamisonace, let’s go Brandon?

I’m definitely not an economist, but I suspect longitudinal trends that predate the current administration may have had some minor effects on the economy.

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DOKF said:

The current administration is saddled with the ineptitude of the previous. That always seems to be the case.

Every administration promised to reduce the deficit and debt, but few ever do. Of either political leaning.

One thing is always true of politicians is that they look after their own.

I personally watch with amusement as the political parties blame each other, and struggle to each get closer to the trough.

But then, I think this thread has been hijacked and corrupted too.

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Shaun Solomon said:

The concept of thread jacking is at this point totally ridiculous. If the question is “do we want people to become actively participating members” (…and privately I suspect that the answer to that question is YES) then c’mon man… users are engaging here. Obviously there is the matter of tone, but as long as the conversation stays civil, is it really such a problem if it meanders a bit?

Besides, it is more than tangentially related. Gubment do have a say so in dis mess.

I don’t think gubment deserves as much blame when things go wrong OR as much as much praise when things go right. Life is complicated and stuff.

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Shaun Solomon said:

I guess for me, I understand state agencies are going to be involved in management, and that management costs money.

It’s the same as taxes for me. I don’t mind paying taxes, even high taxes, IF I feel good about the way the taxes are spent. I almost never feel good about the way taxes are spent.

As an angler, I want to feel that the agencies are at least factoring my interests. My interests might not align perfectly with those of the angling public, and the discrepancy is likely the source of my dissatisfaction.

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Shaun Solomon said:

Seems possible. No way to know until it gets tried.

I think there is a huge tension between public use concerns and federal regulations. Colorado had the same thing… shocking the Yampa to exterminate pike and smallmouth to SAVE pikeminnow is a good example. I’m not making any judgments here, we have made a lot of messes in the environment and I’m all in favor of doing what we can to fix the problems, but a lot of people on the west slope out there find that one a difficult pill to swallow.

Then I move out here, and there is a bounty on pikeminnow. They still hate smallmouth though, so at least that much is consistent.

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Shaun Solomon said:

I went years in Colorado without buying a license. I was in my late teens and early twenties, they don’t stock bass and at that time I never fished for anything else, and never kept any. I had a nice little speech all prepared and ready, I never got to give it. Let me tell you what, I was fishing a LOT back then, like every day without ice. But I never got stopped, I guess because I never propped up a rod on a forked stick, never had pellet-eaters on a rope.

I haven’t been asked yet in Oregon either, but I still buy it. I’ll probably never “tag” anything because I have no idea how that chit works.

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pcstock said:

Hmmmm. I have never been asked for proof of insurance from a traffic cop. Maybe I should stop paying for it.

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