[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!

[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.