Posted on 01/09/2017 7:57:44 AM PST by ColdOne
Not being able to sell rural voters on the importance of switching from fossil fuels to solar and wind power is Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Gina McCarthy’s biggest regret, she said Friday.
“We tried to change the outreach and messaging in rural America in a number of ways, but … has it changed the rhetoric that people hear? It hasn’t,” McCarthy said in an interview at EPA headquarters. “We couldn’t get it, but I wish we had.”
President Barack Obama nominated McCarthy to lead the agency in 2013. Her tenure has been riddled with controversies and marred by heavy-handed regulatory maneuvers.
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Yeah, pretty sad. Wonder why the EPA couldn’t connect?
Ah contraire! He connected more than they ever wanted.
The common theme, they think we didn’t get the message. We did.........................
Maybe it's because they understand that in industry, every unit of energy consumed corresponds to a unit of production, and therefore curtailing energy impedes production?
Maybe it's because they see care for the environment as one of many concerns on the path toward the top of Maslow's hierarchy, rather than a dominating over-arching concern?
Or maybe it's just because they are chiefly concerned with putting food on the table and keeping shoes on the kids, and don't have any time for Washington bull$h!t.
Because as a government bureaucrat SHE KNOWS WHATS BEST and deciding on what the 300 million people in the country should use is up to her.
Dictators don’t connect very well.
gina, you criminal fool: You “connected” with people and they want you in prison for your crimes.
Secondary common theme: we are too stupid to understand the message. Third (etc): we are racist, selfish, rich, greedy, lack morals, lack compassion, don’t want to pay our fair share, don’t care about globalization, don’t care about “fairness”... and so on.
They will never acknowledge that what they are pushing is not in our best interests.
Sorry Gina but most heartland & rural American voters don’t accept anti-American actions meant, essentially, to weaken & destroy America.
Farmers ain’t that STOOOOPID.
Here’s one way to connect (not that it matters now):
When you get confused about the differences between a puddle and “navigable waters”, ask the rural voters rather than telling them there is no difference. They can answer lots of other “difficult” questions if you can pretend to respect them long enough to hear the answer.
“Connect” to them means dictate and strong arm.
I seriously doubt it would have made any difference in the out come....rural folk are anything but stupid!
I seriously doubt it would have made any difference in the out come....rural folk are anything but stupid!
Yeah, tell your bedmark supporters, like the coal miners in WVA and the truck drivers all over the country, that you plan on doing everything in your power to destroy them.
What could ever go wrong?
And a nice river turned into a toxic cesspool!
You man the rural voters who worked in mines and factories that were shut down by the EPA??
Gee, I wonder why....
Oh.... the EPA connected alright. They connected by calling water standing in plowed rows waterways. They connected by literally calling rainpuddles wetlands.
They connected quite well.
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