Posted on 12/22/2017 2:00:56 PM PST by Hojczyk
Environmental Protection Agency officials are “leaving in droves”, reports the New York Times.
More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.
What marvellous news to ease us all into the festive Christmas spirit, eh readers?
Why, it’s like the final scene in A Christmas Carol where Scrooge repents of all his miserliness, his nephew Fred gets a big fat turkey, Bob Cratchit gets a pay rise and Tiny Tim declares “God bless us, every one!”
Not, of course, that this is quite the way the New York Times sees it. It wants us to believe that this is an attack on both science and the environment.
Within the agency, science in particular is taking a hard hit. More than 27 percent of those who left this year were scientists, including 34 biologists and microbiologists; 19 chemists; 81 environmental engineers and environmental scientists; and more than a dozen toxicologists, life scientists and geologists. Employees say the exodus has left the agency depleted of decades of knowledge about protecting the nation’s air and water. Many also said they saw the departures as part of a more worrisome trend of muting government scientists, cutting research budgets and making it more difficult for academic scientists to serve on advisory boards.
Actually, though, what it really is is #winning.
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is achieving what President Trump appointed him to do. He is draining the swamp.
As I’ve argued before, the EPA has always had less to do with protecting the environment – Colorado gold mine, anyone? – than it does with killing business.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Left or asked to leave ? And where do you go for a job after a lifetime of ‘work’ at the EPA ?
How do you find the banned authors on this site...I got banned a few days ago..what happened to free speech??
They should get rid of the EPA..every state has there own now...Back in the 1950’s when we had real pollution it was needed..
Yes, working for the government is like fishing in barrel. As long as you have a pulse, you have a paycheck.
Senators die on the job there so important..
MAGA
...they die when they drop a nut hauling duffle bags full of cash to their limos....
We need an image of the “Ha Ha” guy.
Close it down and fire them all. If the Democrats protest, remind them that the EPA was founded by Tricky Dick Nixon.
Yep, looks like the ones leaving are those with advanced degrees able to find well paid positions elsewhere. The rest will need to be aggressively scraped out, they’ll cling to their easy paychecks for as long as possible.
Are these people now going to get real jobs? Are they going to become (relatively) harmless welfare recipients? Or do we now have 700 misanthropes on the loose looking for new ways to break civilization's kneecaps?
(Hey! I just used the word "misanthrope." That was today's word for the day.)
Carnival barker?
1000 points of...
Winning!!!
I'd love to see one in which EPA employees tell us what they thought of the EPA's collapse.
What the hell is an "environmental engineer"?
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