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.
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.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. I remember old guys who worked in the mills. They’d come out on their porch in the morning and inhale deeply.
If the air was too clean they actually got upset.
It meant too many guys weren’t working.