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Trump Official: We’re Gonna Cut The EPA In Half
dailycaller.com ^ | 1/27/2017 | Chris White

Posted on 01/27/2017 8:36:57 AM PST by rktman

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To: rktman
“Let’s aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we’ll want to go further,”

Save the liver.

21 posted on 01/27/2017 8:47:19 AM PST by Rapscallion ( Equal justice is an American principle)
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To: LouAvul

I agree with you about pollution back then, and yes, they did make a difference, but an open-ended in-perpetuity all powerful agency that for all intents and purposes makes its own laws is not a good thing.


22 posted on 01/27/2017 8:48:15 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Captain Peter Blood

The major impediment to erasing EPA would be in contracts for which it has obligated the United States. The FIRST action should be the cancellation of EVERY existing contract and purchase order contract it has. EVERY contract the US government lets has the clause that stipulates it can be cancelled at any time for convenience of the government (absent shutdown costs, sunk costs and on-the-books commitments).

Shut it the eff down completely!


23 posted on 01/27/2017 8:49:01 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: rktman
Dear EPA,
24 posted on 01/27/2017 8:49:48 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: rktman

Start by transferring members of EPA’s SWAT team to ICE or CBP.


25 posted on 01/27/2017 8:50:13 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: rktman

The half remaining employed should be permanently assigned to Counting Blades of grass all day everyday.

they are the biggest brake on economic growth in the country.


26 posted on 01/27/2017 8:51:38 AM PST by gaijin
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To: LouAvul

I agree. If it had stuck to the original purpose, stopping gross pollution, it would be fine. But now it has morphed into an radical environmentalist organization with the full power of the federal government behind it trying to govern every aspect of our lives.

The truth is when Nixon signed it pollution was out of control. The Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were successful in eliminating most of the pollution. But to justify their existence they had to make up new problems to solve like declaring CO2 a pollutant.


27 posted on 01/27/2017 8:54:12 AM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: LouAvul

I think the EPA accomplished the desired effect initially but ran out of legitimate reasons for their existence.

This is the bane of government.
Organs of internal security cannot exist without
an internal threat hence the need to manufacture one
to justify their existance.

Government trades “security” at the cost of “freedom”.


28 posted on 01/27/2017 8:54:35 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
14/13ths would be optimal. Get the missing 13th from ATF.

Take it and a lot more shares from the Beltway Bandit law firms and consultants who manage the EPA cleanup projects. They have been leeches on the economy long enough.

29 posted on 01/27/2017 8:55:15 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of incompetence and corruption.)
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To: Romans Nine

The cuts should be applied dollar to dollar to clean up the Animus River debacle they created in 2015. In their zeal to get a certain area with abandoned gold mines declared a superfund site, Contractors under guidance of EPA punched a hole in a restraining dam allowing millions of gallons of water mixed with mine tailings to contaminate the Animus River Basin. Fines and punitive damages for this debacle if a private company was at fault are in excess of 8bn and counting. EPA should have this tab taken out of their budget


30 posted on 01/27/2017 8:55:27 AM PST by slapshot (Change target acquisition to Hillarita and all socialists, not fellow conservatives)
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To: rktman

Good. Darned good, Mr. President.


31 posted on 01/27/2017 8:56:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: central_va

for a nano second, just for a nano second I envisioned the same thing.

;>)


32 posted on 01/27/2017 8:56:29 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Romans Nine

Works for me.


33 posted on 01/27/2017 8:57:00 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: rktman

In my opinion, the EPA needs to be shut down entirely, and its staff let go. Same with the ATF, except maybe let agents transfer to other federal law enforcement jobs on a case by blcase basis. The politicized nature of the work these two agencies do renders them a liability to freedom.


34 posted on 01/27/2017 8:57:45 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: rktman

[“Let’s aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we’ll want to go further,”]

KEEP MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! (Thinking ahead)


35 posted on 01/27/2017 9:03:51 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: rktman

That will slow them down, obviously.

But really need to cut EPA regs.

I’d like to see cheap lightbulbs again as well as being able to use more than 1.6 gallons in a toilet, on the minor side.

They also come up w/chemicals to regulate/ban on a daily basis. I find it hard to believe it is all as dangerous as they claim. They have a paganist “organic” agenda and pretty much want to ban anything man made.

Spot-check their lab work and that of their contractors. Probably a lot is paid for fake reports.

Cut that HOV BS too while you’re at it, or is that another dept?


36 posted on 01/27/2017 9:10:13 AM PST by fruser1
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To: central_va

ping
37 posted on 01/27/2017 9:13:12 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: SpaceBar

Absolutely right. Much like the IRS under klinton. He used it as his personal enforcer against evangelical churches that had the temerity to criticize him.


38 posted on 01/27/2017 9:14:05 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: fruser1

My thought on the EPA is that nothing useful has come out of that agency since 1990. Rules should be rolled back to that time, maybe even earlier. If there are any legitimate concerns that have been addressed since then, then the science must be shown and proven to be true. Not fake science like global warming, but real facts that back up assertions.


39 posted on 01/27/2017 9:14:56 AM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: Hugin
it has morphed into an radical environmentalist organization with the full power of the federal government behind it trying to govern every aspect of our lives

Well said and exactly right.

40 posted on 01/27/2017 9:15:43 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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