In talking to a liberal about this all he cared about was the environment. There’s a very happy medium but they won’t even consider it. For example, the EPA report that formed the basis for doing away with the old (and good) pressure treated lumber said, (approximately, “Although our studies did not indicate any escape of arsenic into the aquifer in the several tests, obviously less arsenic is a good thing.”
Does anyone really think that the LEADERS of the EPA (and the White House) give a good fuck about wiping out jobs in Arkansas, or any other conservative state?
Where is Bill Clinton and Hillabeast on this? Silent, I suspect.
Voodoo Science rules the EPA and many of the courts. It is a throwback to the Luddite movement of the late 1800’s.
“I know nothing”! and I don’t want to know nothing, esp. the truth.
We are truly living in an age of mass ignornance and marxist mindsets, starting with the White House, the EPA, some in Justice, Interior, the FCC, etc. and it is only going to get worse unless the Republicans/conservatives win the Senate in November.
Then the ‘purges” must begin in order to save our country from its present slide into “progressive” tyranny.
As planned by EPA.
***and shut down most of the state’s coal-fired electric generation. ***
The local power station near here was built to burn low sulfur Wyoming coal. Now the EPA wants them to build a scrubber to remove the small smidgen of sulfur in the coal. The company is spending millions of dollars to retrofit this unit that went on line in 1978.
So what we're seeing with this Arkansas issue, imo, is potentially the horrendous cost of parents not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
In fact, forget about traditional salesman / sucker cliches like "buying the Brooklyn Bridge." Voters now have to deal with the problem that they have foolishly traded their votes for constitutionally nonexistent rights and federal spending programs based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers.
***new ozone standards could cause Arkansas...***
I find it funny that when John Turk built the Flint Creek Power Plant in NW Arkansas he said he would NEVER build another coal fired plant in Arkansas as the STATE REGULATIONS were so tough.
Now he is dead, and the new John Turk Power Plant has been built east of Texarkana, AND BURNS COAL.
EVERY State needs to join together and consolidate this type of data into a formal report. The report should then be sent to all Senators and Reps in DC, as well as every US Circuit Court.
The House should then pass a bill to totally defund and eliminate the EPA, as it was only created by a POTUS and not authorized under the Constitution.
Perhaps when elected pols see the collective costs in terms of lost jobs, increase in welfare, lost income tax revenue, etc., they might get the message to stop pandering to special interest idiots.
This same plan can also apply to many other useless government agencies.