RI Barrier Beach Permit - Out-of-State!!!

[Saltheart]

Everyone has the right to go out and earn the million to buy the yahct , etc. But if after buying the yahct you decide you can't enjoy the harbor cause someone has an 8 foot fishing boat moored next to your million dollar yahct , you are grredy if you move for legislation to charge outrageous fees for someone to be in the harbor at all. You are just trying to rob the guy who worked hard to buy his small boat of his right to be in the harbor.

Its the same thing when someone buys a million dollar home on a beach with access to SUV's and then decides he can't enjoy the beach if he has to share it with people driving the beach. You can try to sell the argument that the guy who spends the million has more right to the beach and some will buy it (the rich) , same as there are some (the big) who believe its OK for the biggest kid to bully the little kids .

I love the line "The child would also hold grudges and continually question authority.

It seems there are a lot of grown up children out there."

I say Thank God!! The day we stop questioning authority is the day we give up all our rights.

And then there's this "We haven't seen greed with our beach access issue.

Where is the proof of the mainland greed ?

I am not saying it doesn't exist, but show me some FACTS. Not opinions..........""


You must be kidding??? If doubling and tripling users fees isn't evidence of greed , I don't know what is.

Oh and by the way , don't assume anything is "upsetting" anybody. I'm quite enjoying myself!

A good healthy debate about access is very good news to me. If you read my opinions over the last six or sevn years , you'll know that I have always been far more alarmed about lose of access than I have been about overfishing. There will be fish to catch long after most of our access rights have been stripped away from us. I'm glad to see access issues get some air time. Thanks for holding up your end of the debate. Without at least two differing opinions , there wouldn't be any discussion. Indifference is what's going to lose our beach access rights , not debate obout it.