$100 Million Wasted on Tree Equity

You don’t run up a national debt of $33.5 trillion without finding imaginative ways to waste money — like $100 million flushed away in the name of “tree equity”:

The U.S. Forest Service is allocating more than $100 million for grants meant to achieve “tree equity,” according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis.

Even the $100 million is a small fraction of the waste:

The Forest Service announced on Sept. 14 that it had allocated over $1 billion toward expanding “access” to trees, including 17 grant proposals that promote “tree equity” with a total value of $101,096,371.

“Tree equity” means providing trees specifically to people who belong to politically favored identity groups.

The grants are funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s signature climate law.

There is zero chance of the grotesque legislation affecting the climate in any measurable way, but it has helped keep inflation high, as wasteful government spending always does.

Tree equity entails spending our money to plant trees even where there are already plenty of trees:

While trees cover nearly half of Atlanta, the most coverage in the nation according to Trees Atlanta, the Forest Service approved a grant to the city for $10 million to “address issues related to tree equity” and develop a “sustainable, diverse nature-based workforce.” Similarly, San Francisco had 14,543 trees per square mile as of 2021, and the Forest Service allocated $14 million to plant more trees this year, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

With our liberal rulers, the issue is never the issue; the issue is always moonbattery:

A grant to the Oregon Department of Forestry worth $22,857,196, one of the biggest individual grants approved by the Forest Service, promises to use “Indigenous ecological knowledge” to train people in planting, maintaining and monitoring trees. Another grant to the Ebiil Society for $740,000 will also use “Indigenous ecological knowledge” to teach people about trees.

Biden’s ongoing tsunami of illegal aliens have not been forgotten:

Aurora, Colorado’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Open Space received $5,000,000 to plant trees in neighborhoods with “high immigrant and refugee populations” in order to “prioritize equity, social justice and sustainable urban forest management.”

Urban forests are suitable places to set up Third World encampments. Just don’t try walking through one alone.

Constitutional scholars will search in vain for the clause that grants the federal government authority to waste our money on this nonsense.

Thanks to formerly limited government, the USA’s economy has been mighty for generations. Spending it into total collapse hasn’t been easy. But Democrats are up to the job.

On a tip from R F.

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