Posted on 12/15/2009 6:13:16 AM PST by James H. Shott
On July 9, 1970, President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by executive order as an independent agency joining together a number of functions from different federal agencies. The EPA says its mission “is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment – air, water and land – upon which life depends.”
An Administrator appointed by the President of the United States runs the agency, which is not a Cabinet agency, although the Administrator is usually given cabinet rank. Lisa P. Jackson is the current Administrator, and the EPA’s Website notes that the “FY 2010 Budget requests $10.5 billion in discretionary budget authority and 17,384.3 Full Time Equivalents (FTE) to accomplish EPA’s efforts to build a greener economy, move into a clean energy future, and protect human health and the environment in communities across the nation.”
With Congressional efforts to impose crippling costs, tax increases and job losses on taxpayers and the U.S. economy through cap-and-trade legislation, which fortunately is floundering, those Americans taking comfort from this probable failure should think again: Even if cap-and-trade efforts fail, the EPA can unilaterally impose the same horrors on the American people as the failed legislation, and maybe do worse.
Sarah can get rid of it in 2013 by her own executive order.
That’ll fix it!
Great idea!
Great idea...but I doubt she’ll do it. Even fairly conservative Republicans tend to shy away from actually killing government programs. They may try to prevent new programs from being created, but they accept the existing ones as fait accompli.
Can you imagine the row (led, of course, by the MSM) that would form if she actually dismantled the EPA?
Not to a serf... and we're fast becoming serfs.
Good article .. pinging for later
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