WOW SOME PEOPLE!!! its long but PLEASE READ!!!!

[Derrick13]

First let me say awsome post MustBeSatan, not only did you have excellent points but your grammar was far better then mine ever is lol. Anyway...

The fallowing is my personnel thoughts on the subject of invasive species and pets ( from domestic to exotic) and how lacking SOME people can be in knowledge and what I would call common sense.

First and foremost Burms can cause danger to an ecosystem that can sustain them, regardless if there the top of the food chain, as long as they can live in that system. Thats a simple fact, however, the damage may as well be nothing , especially for the glades. The everglades is a man made ecosystem that has been home to many invasive species since it was created. It was practically never pure, never free of unwanted species. What Im getting at is when people think of a prestine everglades and how now it is rampant with foreign invaders they fool themselves, the glades have always been invaded. Always. Now this isnt justifying the thought that we shouldent do anything, Im just stateing a fact. Now about this bill and how it will help the glades...

...It won't. As simple as that. Must of us know this but there are so many people who don't. All this bill would do is end a buisness during a recession and put far more snakes in the glades. Furthermore, if legislators were truley woried about the ecosystem and foreign species then they would focus on the "domesticated" cat. no other , NO OTHEIR, animal (besides humans) has caused more extinctions and permanent damage then those little furballs. Yet despite this, or efforts at controling cats is existant at best, and in all reality does apsolutely nothing. Now I feel the reason for this is the uneducation of America in general and the biased thoughts most people have. Ones cute, therefor ok and the other is all scales and "slime" therefor the devil. LoL. So in all honesty for people to attack the snake trade ( especially if they own cats) is just idiotic, as simple as that. Now for fixing the problome...

...it won't happen. As long as our gov is ruled by legislators that are puppets for interest groups and money, we will never truely have a fix on this or any othier ecosystem problome. Realise I am not justy attacking one party but the entire government function! The few times that government does make good steps in the right direction the fallowing administration usually turns those steps around or takes them ot completely! When Jimmy Carter put solar panels in the white house land, Reagan tore them out as soon as he was elected. Greed, rivalry and the lack of simpathy in our Gov and even a good amount of the entire populace of America will hold us back from ever doing real good. Sorry if I went alittle off topic, but to wrap this up...

As long as people are willfully ignorant and uneducated, there will always be an attack on things those people don't belive in/ understand wether its religion, love or even pets. We need to educate for the benefits of education, not for profit.