Posted on 12/16/2013 9:49:58 PM PST by rktman
Recently the EPA ruled that New York City had to replace 1,300 fire hydrants because of their lead content. The ruling was based on the Drinking Water Act passed by Congress in 2011. As Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) pointed out while lambasting the agency, “I don’t know a single New Yorker who goes out to their fire hydrants every morning, turns it on, and brushes their teeth using the water from these hydrants. It makes no sense whatsoever.” Reportedly, the Senate is poised to consider legislation exempting fire hydrants if the EPA does not revise its ruling.
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With Schumer, having an intelligent thought is like catching a cold. It will happen occasionally but it never lasts very long.
Senator Schumer has the best of everything, a runaway federal agency which permits him to ride in and defend the innocent against the monster liberalism has created.
Between the EPA, Obamacare and the IRS, liberalism has created three monsters which need to be slain, or at least ameliorated, by heroes. Nothing is more illustrative of establishment government, create the problem so you can raise funds and campaign against it.
Chuck Schumer is no hero, he remains a Frankenstein.
Thats Frakensteeeeen !
...what hump?
“As Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) pointed out while lambasting the agency...”
Welcome to Marxism, Comrade Marx.
The problem with an agency like the E.P.A. is that there is no restraint mechanism outside of the judiciary. Consider the name, “Environmental Protection Agency” and so its mission is to protect the environment. No matter what good intentions were there at the start, the results are the same and unlimited mandate for a perfect environment.
Indeed that is the rub, what defines a perfect environment? Current technology becomes more and more able to detect ever smaller amounts of pollution, thus the agency has an ever-growing agenda inspire of less and less pollution. Add to that the fact that the personnel for the agency frequently come from the ranks of the environmentally concerned and more. Combine that with normal bureaucratic inclination to growth, and you have the recipe for runaway growth out of control.
It is ironic that the EPA is on a jihad against mercury emmitted from power plants while starting in January consumers will be forced to fill their homes with mercury ladden CFL light bulbs. Read on the EPA’s own web site the procedure to be followed if you break one starting with opening all windows and turning off heating and air conditioning least the toxic mercury vapors fill your home while you engage in an elaborate clean up procedure. How many of these CFL bulbs will end up in land fills polluting water supplies because consumers just discard them instead of carefully packaging them and take them to a Haz-mat disposal facility and how many homes will have dangerous levels of mercury vapors because of inadequate clean up when a CFL bulb is broken.
Yep, and someone definitely grabbed the wrong jar at the Brain Depository.
Ironic, but not surprising.
Think about this. In Washington DC a person died when the Ambulance they were being transported in quit running, due to the regen system that is supposed to clean the diesel exhaust.
That system shuts down the engine when it has a problem or slows it down to the point where it hardly runs.
The regen system is destroying engines and costing thousand in down time for motors equipped with it.
Well, all the curly bulbs that the previous owners installed in the house we bought ended up at the dump. Stocked up on “real” light bulbs quite a while back. Plan on buying some more. Of course we haven’t had a problem finding them so someone must have cranked up production prior to the “end”.
Dang hard to defend ChuckU Schemer and he was only partly right. Fire hydrants are directly connected to the public water system, there is no separate “fire water system”.
Whether or not the hydrants contain enough lead to actually be concerned about is not provided, but EPA has a long and illustrious record of over-blowing facts. I suspect there are millions of pounds of lead in the NYC water system beyond the fire hydrants.
Dr Frankenstein: Then who's brain did you get?
Igor: Abbey someone.
Dr. Frankenstein: Abbey who?
Igor: Abbey Normal.
Great movie LOL.
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