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EPA Employees ‘Coming to Work in Tears’ Because of Trump Win
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 1/26/2017 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 01/26/2017 12:13:36 PM PST by bkopto

Environmental Protection Agency employees have not accepted Donald Trump’s victory and are still “coming to work in tears” more than two months after the election.

“At EPA headquarters, the mood remains dark,” ProPublica reported Wednesday. “A longtime career communications employee said in a phone interview Tuesday that more than a few friends were ‘coming to work in tears’ each morning as they grappled with balancing the practical need to keep their jobs with their concerns for the issues they work on.”

Trump’s victory has been tough for bureaucrats. The State Department held stress workshops after the election so they would not “become paralyzed by fear.” EPA employees were caught crying before, just after the election, as were White House aides. Energy Department employees were granted counseling. Sobbing staffers greeted Hillary Clinton on Capitol Hill a month after her loss.

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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: epa; first100days; snowflakes; trump; trump45; trumpenvironment; trumpepa
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To: combat_boots

Perhaps now, those people at EPA will start using real and verifiable science in applying the recommendations and guidelines for various environmental concerns.

One thing, right off the bat. Carbon dioxide is not, never has been, a “pollutant”, but a very essential part of earth’s atmosphere, and it has nowhere near the effect supposedly assigned in relation to either heat gain or loss in the atmosphere or surface waters, which makes the whole effort to regulate earth surface temperatures by limiting the CO2 content of the atmosphere meaningless. It is far too expensive to even try, and it would have no measurable result.

Climate may be changing, but it is of no known or logical mechanism depending on carbon dioxide as the change agent, and it is not affected in any manner by the activities of mankind. Oh, there are micro changes that anthropogenic activity CAN affect, in very localized areas, but the sum total of the entire biosphere involves so many factors, and is of just such huge magnitude, that human efforts are negligible and mostly self-canceling. And none of it is cumulative.


101 posted on 01/26/2017 12:38:00 PM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: bkopto

I use liberal tears in my milkshakes.


102 posted on 01/26/2017 12:39:10 PM PST by Gator113 (I use liberal tears in my milkshake ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: bkopto

EPA employees in tears?! No, not that!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!!!


103 posted on 01/26/2017 12:39:29 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: bkopto
Yep,.. Hillary lost, all because of bad media, articles in the National Review and The Globe at the checkout counter.

LMBO

"8^}

104 posted on 01/26/2017 12:39:35 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I grew up in the DC area the horizon in the morning was brown in the summer. The auto pollution was terrible. You could feel it in your lungs and smell it everywhere when you went downtown. It really was bad. Soot film everywhere. It is not like that anymore and there are just as many cars now as back then. Like I said mission accomplished now they need to go away.


105 posted on 01/26/2017 12:39:36 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bkopto

It’s looking like this reduction in the federal work force is gonna be easier than we thought!


106 posted on 01/26/2017 12:40:07 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: bkopto

I call baloney. Somebody’s making up this story because of one or two drama queens being interviewed and summoning reptilian tears.

Now if they start quitting in honorable protest, I’ll be a believer.


107 posted on 01/26/2017 12:40:49 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: bkopto

Hahahaha. These LIB asshat weaklings should quit immediately. Obviously, they were up to n0o good for many7, many years. The tears are probably because they are worried about losing their cushy jobs where they sit around watching porn all day.


108 posted on 01/26/2017 12:41:10 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Pollster1
I’ve never felt this way before, but the terrible eight years we just endured have changed me forever. Bakers, photographers, florists, bed-and-breakfast hosts, and many others have been fined up to $135k for exercising their God-given First Amendment religious rights, and the left cheered as those decent people were crushed.

Bingo. Millions upon millions of us share your sentiments. But understand that this has been going on well before Obama. Elane Photography in New Marxistco was attacked with a lawsuit in 2006.

109 posted on 01/26/2017 12:41:45 PM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: kiryandil

That’s her! How did you take that image? My house has been hacked by the Russians! RUN!


110 posted on 01/26/2017 12:42:21 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: bkopto

Good. If these idiots really care about the environment they will quit the EPA and instead pool (no pun intended) their salty tears to supply a hydroponic system that will grow crops which feed America’s poor and hungry. It’s a win-win.


111 posted on 01/26/2017 12:42:35 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: nobody in particular
the entire EPA should be disbanded after what they did in Colorado.. the Gold King disaster was intentionally done, so the EPA could then set up a 'superfund site'..Mother f'in bastards..and the politicians that said: "ok, go ahead"

arrghh!

112 posted on 01/26/2017 12:42:39 PM PST by SGCOS
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To: bkopto
The collapse of Soviet communism and the resulting essential destruction of the communists as a movement inside the United States led to a vacuum inside the bubble previously occupied by communist agents. Having nowhere else to go, they inevitably drifted into an area more in line with their utopian ideology: Environmentalism.

Working against American interests in expanding capitalism from inside an actual government enforcement agency allowed those most interested in the dramatic change of American exceptionalism into American weakness a certain enduring foothold via intrusive government policies.

It started with Bill Clinton and continued with Barack Obama with brief periods of stunted growth during two Bush regimes. Neither Bush chose to do what Trump is so obviously doing. The swamp is vast and deep and the EPA is just one part that needs to be lanced like the festering boil it has become.

113 posted on 01/26/2017 12:43:16 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: central_va

The mission of a bureaucrat isn’t accomplishment, it’s expanding the mission. They never go away of their own volition. Success is more power, more employees, a bigger budget and more prestige. Giving up a bully pulpit by actually admitting they’ve fulfilled the purpose of their existence is not in their vocabulary.

Shut down every single bureaucracy you can, President Trump. No time like the present, and the door won’t be open forever. The ones left standing will be right back to the mission creep as soon as they’re able. Count on it.


114 posted on 01/26/2017 12:44:09 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: bkopto

Can we hear some stories about the tears of family farmers and other property owners whose lives have been ruined by the EPA bureaucrats over the last forty years?


115 posted on 01/26/2017 12:44:11 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: NEMDF

Definitely another part of the swamp that could use some draining. Since when is “discouraged worker” a disability? And yes, I know somebody who filed under that and was approved.


116 posted on 01/26/2017 12:44:30 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: PIF
бежать, бежать, товарищ!!!
117 posted on 01/26/2017 12:45:21 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: bkopto; All
"as they grappled with balancing the practical need to keep their jobs with their concerns for the issues they work on."

So in other words they are getting a taste of what private-sector American workers have to deal with every day? Good.
118 posted on 01/26/2017 12:45:30 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: Hoffer Rand

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Absolutely insane!
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119 posted on 01/26/2017 12:45:32 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: JenB987
Donald, We're glad you're here,

The EPA pooped in the River:


120 posted on 01/26/2017 12:45:46 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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