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First they came for your light bulbs. Now Obama’s EPA is going after your soap.
The Daily Caller ^ | 4/1/11 | Stacy Mott

Posted on 04/01/2011 9:30:32 AM PDT by Nachum

You can’t blame Americans for feeling as though the government is increasingly crossing boundaries and reaching into their daily lives. The Obama administration and regulatory authorities such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appear to be coming at us on all fronts.

The Republican-led Congress has been steadfast in its efforts to beat back the EPA. Recent committee hearings have exposed the adverse consequences that the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will have on the job market. Unfortunately for hardworking Americans, the cost of the EPA’s action will make energy prices higher, drive jobs overseas and force more citizens into the unemployment line. Under the Obama administration, the EPA has been transformed into a job-killing machine.

The EPA is donning a new title, as well — “nanny state” behemoth. While many are aware of the fight against cap and trade and the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, the totality of their smaller actions, which often go unnoticed, is starting to add up. They already tell us what kinds of light bulbs we can use and how much water we are allowed to have in our toilets. Now, they have their sights set on our soap.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antibacterial; bulbs; epa; light; soap; triclosan
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1 posted on 04/01/2011 9:30:35 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 04/01/2011 9:31:26 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Surly this is an April Fools Joke
3 posted on 04/01/2011 9:33:39 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Nachum
Surly this is an April Fools Joke
4 posted on 04/01/2011 9:33:50 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Nachum

Obama administration: The world’s longest lasting “April” Fool’s joke.


5 posted on 04/01/2011 9:34:04 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Nachum
What are the alleged environmental problems with triclosan?
6 posted on 04/01/2011 9:34:11 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Nachum

If you dig deeper into this mes, you will see the hand of PETM (people for the ethical treatment of microbes)


7 posted on 04/01/2011 9:35:24 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Nachum

Eddie Mahkey, the marginal moron of Meffa strikes again. He doesn’t even own a home in MA and hasn’t ever but these idiots keep voting for him.


8 posted on 04/01/2011 9:38:24 AM PDT by acapesket
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To: Nachum

I bought a big box of Trisodium Phosphate because of these eco-nazis and plan on buying more soon.
Along with my lightbulb hoarding do i need to start collecting soap as well?


9 posted on 04/01/2011 9:39:18 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Nachum
Actually, they don't. They "merely" specify minimum efficiences. (This does have the probably intended side-effect of banning traditional incandescents.)
10 posted on 04/01/2011 9:40:54 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: Nachum
You can’t blame Americans for feeling as though the government is increasingly crossing boundaries and reaching into their daily lives.

Perhaps because it is?

11 posted on 04/01/2011 9:41:46 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: Nachum

Seems like the commerce laws should come into
play here.

In order to get business, a company lobbies,
smooges, extorts and bribes Congress to pass
corrupt legislation that forces us to purchase
a product we don’t necessarily need or want;

BY VILIFYING
a product / company / private citizen,

AND THUS
interfering with their ability and right to work,
produce and prosper.


12 posted on 04/01/2011 9:43:40 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: mowowie
Along with my lightbulb hoarding do i need to start collecting soap as well?

I know, I'm starting to run out of room for the light bulbs alone.

On the other hand, this might boost storage shed sales into the stratosphere.

13 posted on 04/01/2011 9:44:19 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Nachum

They already messed with detergents by taking the phosphates out.

Now, a dishwasher doesn’t wash since the ‘energy star’ pump motor is about the size of a golf ball and the phosphate is gone.

Mrs. RWA and I just put a bit of phosphate back in with each load, which seems to help. This will work until they ban it.

I hear they’re working on a way to make sure refrigerators aren’t able to cool things.


14 posted on 04/01/2011 9:45:10 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: PLD
You think it's an April fools joke?

Your dishwasher's not getting the dishes clean - your toilet won't flush, new light bulbs give you a headaches, the french fries you eat taste like cardboard? Thank a liberal.

It's all real - liberal elites want YOU under their control...

15 posted on 04/01/2011 9:45:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: Nachum

Not to mention what a disaster this would be for people who are forced to use public transportation.


16 posted on 04/01/2011 9:46:50 AM PDT by La Lydia
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"Anti-bacterial hand washes and soaps are used every day in our schools to stop the spread of viruses"

False. It kills bacteria, not viruses. Anyway, since I found out that anti-bacterial soap was developed for the home market of people with AIDS, since they have degraded immune systems and can't fight off bacteria like healthy people can, I stopped using it.

17 posted on 04/01/2011 9:47:35 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Nachum

Soap, hah, that is pase...

I clean my hands with hydrocloric Acid.

I just vomit it up and then rinse my hands, been a lot easier since Nov 2008 to do this.


18 posted on 04/01/2011 9:49:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GOPJ

I think I may need to start rendering down liberals for soap...


19 posted on 04/01/2011 9:51:31 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: GOPJ

Seriously though... without light bulbs , soap and toilet paper, we will be like the majority of the muslim world. Its all part of Obamas masterplan.... level the playing field.

Within an hour he will outlaw the traditional right hand handshake as it is “crusader and unsanitary”


20 posted on 04/01/2011 9:52:15 AM PDT by himno hero ("armageddon is well seeded, America will pay"...Barrack Obama)
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