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To: Luircin
Go back and look at what I said about the EPA.

You want an issue, DT said he'd keep it whole he was saying he'd continue the ethanol mandate.

Tell me, please, just how you or anyone else is going to have a resurgence in manufacturing in America with that agency in place.

They have fought energy.

They have fought mining

They have created and re-created moving target emissions standards which have cost billions in downtime and re-fits, only to move the bar again when the re-fits are done.

They have virtually killed the coal mining industry by forcing coal burning electrical generation plants offline with the destructive economics of changing emissions standards.

They have attacked hydraulic fracturing, the production enhancement technique which has enabled America's resurgence as an oil producer and cheaper gasoline in your tank.

They have declared CO2 a "pollutant", and deemed they have the power to regulate it. (don't breathe too hard when you read this, you exhale CO2, too).

They polluted the Animas River with mine waste, despite being told their approach to the drainage problem was flawed. The disaster was predicted a week ahead of the event.

They attacked a couple over filling in a low spot in their yard, declaring that an "intermittent wetland".

They attempted (still in court) to give a million+ acres of Wyoming to the Wind River Indian Tribe, despite much of it being private property, and despite the fact that changes to State boundaries must be approved by Congress. As an aside, that area includes the town of Pavilion, where the EPA constructed test wells to 'prove' fraccing polluted water. One was drilled into an oil bearing formation, the other was constructed so badly the USGS refused to even test it. There might be some butt covering there, because the change from being governed by US and Wyoming law to Tribal Law just might affect people's ability to investigate what went on with that.

That's just one thing, but it is a show stopper.

How is America going to become "Great Again" in the face of preserving the very agency which has driven jobs offshore, shut down industry, and put people out of work?

Answer that.

383 posted on 01/31/2016 2:07:25 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Here's the problem: Trump hasn't given any serious indication of how he's going to create millions of jobs. Except maybe by vacating those currently stolen by illegals. OK, I'm down with that. Or by requiring people who currently abuse the H1B Visa program to actually obey the law, which says it can't be used for displacement. OK, check that one off, too.

Problem is, both of those things will probably net cost jobs, not create them. Again, that doesn't really bother me, because I'm not in favor of employing Mexico locally.

The only other things a President can really do to create jobs involve: lowering the government burden on the private economy. I don't hear Trump talking about that. I don't hear Trump saying he will reduce the size of the Federal Registry. I don't hear Trump saying he will dismantle the DHS -- which does essentially nothing -- or the Department of Education -- ditto.

He certainly is not talking about curtailing the EPA, which is probably the most destructive Federal Agency there is.

"Fabulous, fabulous people. The best people. Terrific People. Really terrific!" are not going to create any jobs, and I really don't hear any ideas about reducing the size and abusiveness of government. Just platitudes and slogans about great, great terrific people, "making deals," and "good management." And of course, "winning."

That would be different from the GOP-e, how?

403 posted on 01/31/2016 2:20:39 PM PST by FredZarguna (You did not see what I did there.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

No.

I’m not going to answer that because even if I gave you a thesis-level reply, you’d reject everything I said and throw more talking points at me. You have shown that you are not interested in a conversation; you just want to harangue someone.

I will give that you are not as bad as the three that rode the lightning last night, but I am not interested in being browbeaten for something that I’ve already considered when making my decision, nor answering loaded questions from the contingent of True Believers.


410 posted on 01/31/2016 2:24:18 PM PST by Luircin (The difference between lesser evil and greater good is who gets schlonged in the end.)
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