Posted on 12/22/2014 9:55:32 AM PST by Mount Athos
Since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued 3,120 new final regulations, equaling 27,854 pages in the Federal Register, totaling approximately 27,854,000 words.
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Erected a multitude of new offices...
Almost as long as Atlas Shrugged.....
LOL!
It appears that each and every EPA employee has “rule making powers”. It’s like they’re set up on a merit/bonus system...”THINK UP A REG, AND WIN. BUCK!”
Each of their libtards thinks of their pet peeve and writes a reg to “fix” it.
They never consult about their “fixes” with each other, so there’s lots of overlap and redundancy.
They seek fixes for problems that don’t exist, which - in turn - creates even more problems that need “regulating”.
Well he does think he’s God.
oddly enough atlas shrugged has same number of words as the bible, around 645,000
Disgusting. I hope the next Prez cuts them all by executive order...followed by hacking the “workers” there by at least 50%. The parasite class needs to shrink. Have a Merry Christmas!
Ya know, CONgress can Require the head of every department in the Administration to READ FOR THE RECORD all Regulations they have written and implemented, and they can do it every year, Force these assholes to spend 5 days with NO BREAKS Allowed. If you cannot read it into the Official Record, it is Invalid.
For Zero and his accomplices, regulations are THE bible.
That idea seem to apply to biologists,"Discover" a "new" species, name it yourself and get it declared "Endangered"!
"Wheeee!, I've made a name for myself!"
Exactly. Liberals see “problems” where none exist. And their “solution” only makes things worse for which they have another “solution” that consists of taking away more of your rights and money.
An EPA story;
I ran a public water supply for 30 years. Small company, 300+ connections. 4 deep wells. Great water, but it did have some iron. We sometimes got complaints. During one of their bi-annual visits, I was discussing the problem with the local epa head honcho. She said, “Oh! You need to add a phosphate injection system. That will solve all your problems.” So I convinced the owners, and we installed just such a system. Problem completely solved! No more complaints!
During the next epa visit, the same person asked me what the new equipment was. I told her it was the AquaMag system she had suggested. She went ballistic! “You can’t do that! You must have a study. Chemical analysis. Engineering drawings. And a 10% fee to the epa, before we will even consider your request. Turn this system off right now!” I was dumbfounded!
I told her that after I went through all that, they were just going to tell me to turn it back on. She said, “That’s right!”
Sheesh!
When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honoryour claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?
Go figure!
What happens (( IF )) the NEW republican Congress DEFUNDS the EPA...
Merely cuts off the money spigot?..
Would the CIA, FBI and NSA pay private VISITS to certain Congressmen and Senators..?..
for... you know... a “TALK” about who REALLY runs things in Washington D.C..?
There is a saying “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” Often said in solemn tones to indicate the dignity of such wisdom...
But I can’t find anyone who can tell me WHERE in the lawbooks that requires you to know every law and deems you to be breaking the law if you don’t.
And with 27 millions words JUST in the EPS regs 9this year alone!) it is impossible to know all the laws (ok regulations too ) and I am DYING for some lawyer to bring this up and get a ruling precedent on this.
That alone would be the single biggest blow to the government in years. They could no longer arrest anyone for illegally killing a snail darter if it could be reasonably expected that they did so because they had no clue the government had such a (stupid) law, among many other obscure rules you can’t possible be expected to know
So there goes your excuse for not reading The Bible...
In order to justify their salaries they have to keep on producing more and more garbage, regardless if it makes sense or not. And yes I am very well aware that we have to have a certain amount of rules and regulations, but there is also a happy medium dictated by common sense, but that’s something what has fallen along the wayside long time ago.
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