It's time to remake the out-of-control EPA

americanthinker.com ^ | 6/19/2019 | Josh First

[rktman]

Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's purported "top climate change expert" and the agency's highest paid employee, John C. Beale, was arrested and convicted of fraud. Turns out that while at EPA, Beale pretended to also work for the CIA and for years had wasted his official employment time while loafing around his house in his underwear. Taxpayers are mad about Beale's theft of their money, and "climate change" advocates are humiliated, because Beale's purported knowledge and expertise about this made-up subject was also similarly made up. Beale was an expert at lying; that is it.

I am not surprised about the Beale scandal, because I worked at the U.S. EPA for seven years, from 1991 to 1998, as a GS-13 policy and legislative staffer. With some exceptions, what I saw there among many other staff was consistent with Beale's behavior.

After studying nascent environmental policy at Penn State in the 1980s, I went on to graduate school to study quantitative environmental policy, economics, and statistics, then all in their formative academic years. After getting my M.A., my first job was at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters, beginning in 1991, during the President George Herbert Walker Bush administration. For the next seven years to the week, I worked in three different policy and legislative jobs at the EPA that took me across America and around the globe.

[rktman]

Haven't worked there for more than a decade so surely things have improved since you left Josh........... Hello? Buehler? Crickets. Are there numbers out there that show the damage done by the epa rules and regs?

[dfwgator]

EPA Soldier: I’m afraid we lost them, sir.

Russ Cargill: Dammit!!!

[Cargill throws his binoculars at the EPA soldier, who cowers in fear. The binoculars bounce back off the dome and hit Cargill in the face.]

Russ Cargill: Well then you find ‘em, and you get ‘em back in the dome! And to make sure nobody else gets out, I want roving death squads around the peremeter 24-7! I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here’s how I want them arranged: tough, soft, tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft. [pause]

EPA Soldier: Sir, I’m afraid you’ve gone mad with power.

Russ Cargill: Oh, of course I have. Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring, no one listens to you!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Time to shut it down.

[SpaceBar]

Nixon’s real legacy.

[PGalt]

DISMANTLE the bureaucratic state.

[DPMD]

Remake it? Why not just follow the democrat playbook: Declare it imperfect, then exterminate it.

[arthurus]

Remake it? Hell, no! Zero it out. Eliminate ALL of its employees’ jobs. Eliminate all funds including retirement funds for already retired personnel or those with enough time in to retire. Bury it. Salt the earth for a mile all around it.

[Ozark Tom]

The EPA, like most government agencies in general, become moribund over time and seek a way to justify their continued existence. NASA for example—JPL is about the most viable offshoot remaining. Just take them out back and give them a proper 21 gun send-off with live ammo.

Any elected government which creates a subsidiary bureaucracy, should instill it with a kill switch which allows only a limited operational lifetime. Write the mandate for operation in terse language such that it can’t morph. If the original job is not completed in a timely fashion, look again at the big picture and re-evaluate. Run the government on an X-project basis as if one of Kelly Johnson’s Skunk-Works.

[upchuck]

Follow the USDA’s example. Begin moving employees away from Washington.

[rktman]

😂 And watch them turn their backs? They can have their "final" check direct deposited.

[Billthedrill]

Follow the USDA’s example. Begin moving employees away from Washington.

And closer to the actual problems. There are office spaces available in Flint, Michigan, or Centralia, Pennsylvania.