New Hampshire Fish and Game has a problem you’ll be familiar with. Things are getting more expensive, and (no coincidence) fishing and hunting license sales have fallen off. The Fishy Game folks don’t think they’ll have enough money to do everything they do. Okay, do less? That’s what we have to do.
We, the People, aren’t eating out as much as once we did, vacationing as often or at all, or even taking as many day trips. We have changed our eating and buying habits. Birthdays and Christmas are likely a bit lighter than they used to be. In other words, folks are learning to live in the Democrat utopia. Have less, do less, be less (as I like to say).
Government agencies should not be immune to the problems the government creates.
Less is More
New Hampshire Fish and Game owns and operates 143 boat ramps. I don’t care how or why, but how about a fire sale? Hand responsibility off to the locals. Give them away, sell them, lose the overhead.
Fish and Game says it incurs costs from rescues, so why not charge the people you rescue for the cost? I needed an ambulance once. Local Fire rescue EMTs answered the call. They billed me for the ride. I sense an opportunity to recover lost revenue.
I also hear F&G does a fair bit of policing where it could probably let things be. That’s where the infamous phrase fish cops came from—acting like the police and charging people for leaning a loaded rifle up against a vehicle. Is all of that necessary? How much more of that is on your menu of activities?
Is the answer to your financial hardship to shift your burdens onto the shoulders of people suffering financial hardship? Spendaholic Dem David Watters thinks so. He says, “The system is broken, and they can’t do their job without an increase in support.” So, no mostly peaceful protests to defund fish and game?
A bipartisan commission at the State House is now working on ways to modernize funding for New Hampshire Fish and Game. …
Lawmakers plan to have recommendations ready later this fall.
I agree that the funding for Fish and Game needs fixing. Almost a quarter of its budget comes from the Feds. That makes them at least a quarter beholden to the rats in DC. Getting off that hook would require Granite Staters to pay, and as noted above, this is not economically a good time to ask for more money. A problem only solved by keeping the Feds from taking it out of the state in the first place.
How about a bipartisan commission on that, Mr. Watters? Imagine what we could do if we stopped feeding the irresponsible beasts lurking in the swamps of the nation’s Capital.
As for Fish and Game, no one says they must be defunded. They need to do a better job with the money they have. That might mean doing less, and anyone who says a government agency can’t do less is as ideologically addled as David Watters. The government always does more than it should or needs to, which means it can easily do less. But you can’t ask them to decide. Government agencies and Democrats are like children when it comes to money. They don’t understand or care that it has to come from someone else; they want to spend it on what they want.
If the people have to do with less, so then must government. I know. Good luck making that stick.
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