Posted on 01/28/2014 7:46:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
The EPA is not accountable to Congress and never has been. Furthermore, it was created by an executive order issued by Nixon and not by legislation.
It means the government will take over individual/private retirement accounts to “ensure they are safe and secure.”
It means the creation of a new retirement savings plan for low-wage workers which will allow them to build up savings in Treasuries to later convert into a traditional IRA.
The ObamaBux Socialist Saving Plan!
They did it in Argentina a few years ago. They seized private retirement accounts "for the good of all".
Yeah but it also comes down to money and getting the word out to people, convincing them how incredibly dangerous this all is - getting them to realize the absolute hell it is to live under a totalitarian state. Plus getting a candidate that could debate his ass off, just bury these Marxist scmbags like grass, yes a lot of things have to fall into place for that to happen. Plus we would have to deal with the Democrat/Democrat lite party doing everything they possibly could to sabotage it. It going to be one long haul, I just hope we get somewhere before it’s too late. It may be too late already. I don’t care what anyone says: There is no way in hell this terror supporting Marxist sleaze bag won the last election legitimately. I lived in New York city at the time which is like the capital of liberalism on the east coast, I didn’t know ONE lib who said they were voting for him again. They KNEW he was a massive F up.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Looking for another way (like Solyndra) to recycle taxpayer money back into the Democrat Party coffers. Chicago Style politics.
Tell that to most Americans who are dealing with extreme cold!
I have siezed control and will not give it back
Thank You ... Oh yeah ...
and alahuakbar
The emperor has spoken. So let it be written.
Congress did this to themselves when they created dozens of alphabet agencies and gave them all the power to create “rules” with the weight of law.
2000 pages of "law" ----> 20,000 pages of "as the secretary shall determine".
Retirement Security = requiring your retirement funds to be invested in low-paying Federal bonds. . .
Ve don’t need no steenkin legislative representatives of ze people! Ve vill just take action!
A signing statement is nothing more than the executive documenting his interpretation of that legislation. It has no effect on the actual legislation.
BO isn’t even acting with legislation. It is a world of differenece.
Nationalizing 401k plans, of course.
Great question.
I was very interested in the early 2000s in drafting an actual proposal to get rid of the EPA, and the short answer to your question is, "it's complicated".
The EPA was created by executive order (Nixon). The Executive Branch is charged with enforcing a whole slew of vague and unconstitutional environmental laws enacted by Congress between 1955 and 1971. The EPA was created (believe it or not)to SIMPLIFY the dozens of agencies and departments that were needed to enforce all these laws prior to 1972.
So, the EPA is not created or authorized by Congress. Its powers are assigned by the President, under his authority to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
The problem is the nature of the Clean Air Act, the Water Quality Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the Clean Waters Restoration Act, the Endangered Species Protection Act, and many, many others.
None of these "laws" are laws the way you learned about in civics class. You could read them all day and never understand what you may and may not do, what basis is necessary to charge you with a crime, and what the statutory consequences of breaking the law are.
All of that is left to the President and his officers.
So, the EPA is really kind of a mirage. If Obama or Congress revoked Nixon's executive order creating the EPA tomorrow, all those laws would still be on the books, any President would still be charged with enforcing them, and somewhere in the Executive Branch there would have to be officers to do the enforcing.
As with so many other examples, the erroneous jurisprudence of the 1930s that allowed Congress to delegate "all Legislative powers herein granted" to unelected and unremovable officials has led to tyranny.
And it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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