Our unemployment rate is a concern. With 8.6% of our population with no revenue with which to pay their bills, you would think that our country would be making every effort to make America the epitome of business and job-creators friendly. You would also think that, in a time like this, our president would never shut down an opportunity, like the Keystone Pipeline, to employ 20,000 construction workers and $7 billion in private investments.

The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard is being considered by the US Fish and Wildlife service to be listed as endangered. The listing threatens to shut down the oil fields of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico.

AFP-Texas Director Peggy Venable and activist Jason Moore held a press conference in the Permian Basin early this year to encourage the public to file comments and to discourage FWS from listing the lizard as endangered. Moore, a radio talk show host, business owner and former AFP Activist of the Year, submitted the following comments to FWS. He was the first to point out to us the plan environmentalists have proposed to “save the planet” from mankind. Read about it here in Moore’s comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service: