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Originally Posted by Misty Blue
First may I say that I once served aboard the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). Cool gig!
But the document. Psycho, we are a naion of laws but the US Constitution is a set of laws directed not at the people but at the government. The people who wrote it were affraid of too much government control, they had just gotten rid of a King.
The document was written to insure that the government (federal) would not control our lives.
But they never tought about the NH legislature in todays age.
Laws are being passed by a legislative body in Concord that effect people on NH waters yet very, very few of these legislatures have any experiance on the subject. Put an environmental or safety spin on a law and without reguard to common sence it passes. My representative has a bill in that affects the bay that I live on yet she admits that she has never been there or seen it and I noted that she can't even spell it's name correctly.
It is too easy for evasive laws to slip through the halls in Concord. IMO.
Misty Blue.
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misty, I will agree whole-heartedly that many (most?) legislators are not aware of what they are voting on a lot of bills. The same can be said for voters unfortunately.....
The constitution set the frame-work for us to establish laws as we see fit. If the people decide the laws are too burdensom, we can remove them from office and repeal those laws. That's the ability our 'new' nation gained.....
Let me just tell you that when it comes to environmental laws, I travel for work and get to see first hand the places that have little or no environmental standards. Smog, severely polluted water, and that's just the stuff you see. Nothing like going to a beach and seeing entire bags of garbage crashing into the shores. So while we can all argue about governmental intervention, I'll take the US regulations any day.
We can open an entirely different thread on "how laws get passed" and the slimy stuff that happens. I'm talking Concord and Disgusta.
The reality is that the swim raft permit is not some huge intrusion into your daily life. A raft gives you the ability to place an object on state property and stating where you are going to put it is not a huge burden. Can the procedure be streamlined, I don't know. However, allowing homeowners to put a raft where ever they please is a recipe for trouble as well. Don't believe me, lets go five years with raft locations, sizes, etc completely unregulated. Put them where ever you want. What do you think the result will be?