Posted on 08/27/2014 6:22:37 AM PDT by rktman
Thanks, Environmental Protection Agency! You’ve required sewage treatment plants, catalytic converters on cars and other things that made the world cleaner than the world in which I grew up. Good work.
Today, America’s waterways are so much cleaner that I swim in New York City’s once-filthy Hudson River – right beside skyscrapers in which millions of people, uh, flush. The air we breathe is also cleaner than it’s been for 60 years.
In a rational world, environmental bureaucrats would now say, “Mission accomplished. We set tough standards, so we don’t need to keep doing more. Stick a fork in it! We’re done.”
OK, I went too far. America does still need some bureaucrats to enforce existing environmental rules and watch for new pollution problems. But we don’t need what we’ve got: 16,000 environmental regulators constantly trying to control more of our lives. EPA should stand for: Enough Protection Already.
But bureaucracies never say they’ve done “enough.” That would mean they were out of work.
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Thank Richard Nixon.
And billy rucklehouse too. Sorry if I misspelled his name. NOT!
EPA has a bottomless cash machine for political funding. Notice over $6B for Nature Conservancy alone.
Not only are EPA decisions in question but their “science” is even more questionable. Each EPA dictator is free to force their own agenda and favors for the highest dollar. One farmer was forced to kill almost 1000 hogs by ruling of EPA dictators or forcing drivers to use ethanol gas to make donors rich. EPA wants dictatorial powers in all things.
Government in one lesson.
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