EPA Expands Power by Calling Plowed Farm Fields 'Mini Mountain Ranges'

Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 10/14/16 | Tom Gantert

[LibWhacker]

No government would ever try to maneuver itself into a position that could, in principle, allow it to starve its own people, or having done so, actually starve said people... Unless it admired socialists, communists, Stalinists... Yikes!

[Rumplemeyer]

Stalin do this in the’30’s to kill 30 + million, Hillary’s hero, and the result of a corrupt Congress that WILL NOT enforce it’s constitutional duty...

[SkyDancer]

The EPA will ban all farming and tell you to go to Safeway for all your food needs.

[Tench_Coxe]

"But in pursuit of new regulatory powers, federal agencies refer to the little dirt mounds by another term: “mini mountain ranges.” That seemingly absurd distinction is being used to impose more federal control over private land use decisions made by U.S. farmers."

"Oh, I have a mini mountain range on my property? I'm concerned. Why don't you come out and have a look."

Several days later as the EPA person and farmer are walking around the property...

"So, you are a liberal arts graduate from out East?"
"Yes. I'm a graduate of (enter "studies" here). Why are those pigs so crazy?
"Watch your step. That muddy hill is.....oh boy, looks like another one fell down the hill..."
(from the farm house)"Honey, is there a problem?"
"No, just feeding the pigs."

[OSHA]

This article smells like a trap.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Tire ruts fill with water when it rains, so then we have a wetland??? Really???

Farmers plow fields and the furrows are actually mini mountain ranges???

I am often surprised at the nonsense which bureaucrats come up with. I think you need an advanced degree from an ekite liberal college, in order to have the thought process to make this crap up.

[madison10]

While a pile of DNC bus dump.

[beethovenfan]

The EPA must be disbanded!

[rey]

Remember. Nixon gave us this piece of trash.

[VTenigma]

The courts have already ruled on what constitutes “waters of the United States”. These tyrants just refuse to abide.

[VRW Conspirator]

Federal rule could impose wetland permit mandates on plowing a field

Communist governments of the past owned all the land. The Neo-communists today are just neo-fascists who want own and maintain the land. No they just want to control all the land.

[umgud]

The EPA should be disbanded and all their employees should be banned from any gov’t work, same for the Corps, who has left their good history and morphed into something we don’t need.

[1rudeboy]

Nothing that higher tariffs on imported ag products can’t fix.

[tumblindice]

I know Trump will have a lot on his plate, but how tough is it to order a couple dozen US marshals to put chains and padlocks on the doors of every EPA office building in the country?
This is doable, I believe Barry calls it an `EO’.

[SES1066]

This is a significant problem with 'big' government - more people means more man oops, people hours which gives a greater hiding place for the [insert word] writers of such proposals. An obvious solution to such regulatory attempts is to FIRE THAT $%^^#$%^ SOB descendant of female dog!

Man ... writing gender neutral is a real PITA!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

EPA was brought into being by an EO. It can be taken out the same way if we have a president with the guts to do it.

[rockinqsranch]

There’s only one answer to the question of what to do to restore sanity to our government system, and that’s to eliminate all of the departments along with their supporting bureaucracies the Democrats have instilled in the system.

Virtually none of those departments are required by the constitution. The departments, and bureaucracies are for the purpose of maintaining Democrat power over the system by having their own in constant control of the functions of governance. No other reason period.

[Toddsterpatriot]

YES!

[Viking2002]

Well played, madam. Well played.

[HereInTheHeartland]

The “Waters of the United States,” act is very real and very onerous.
The title of the article however is misleading.