Posted on 12/31/2018 3:14:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration is ending 2018 by engaging in another wanton act of destruction. Late last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would begin the process of rolling back Obama-era rules limiting mercury emissions by coal-burning plants. The health gains to the population, the EPA declared, may not be worth the cost to businesses. Those improvements included less brain damage to children and, for the entire population, fewer asthma attacks and 11,000 fewer premature deaths each year.
Most of us would say better health for a decent number of Americans is a good thing. But not the Trump administration and the Republican Party. They consistently value the short-term self-interest of a wealthy few more than they value our collective future.
It’s more than simple selfishness. Last week’s action was one of the many instances of what can only be described as nihilism from President Trump, his administration and the Republican Party. Their motto for 2018 could be summed up by the words on the back of Melania Trump’s infamous jacket: “I really don’t care, do u?” They starve the government of the resources it needs to carry out its basic duty to keep the American public safe from harms both predictable and unpredictable. At the same time, they promote a mean-spirited fictional version of a past national greatness, one that mainly offers racism, sexism and a skimpy social safety net.
That’s the bad news. The good news: Americans are getting wise to what is going on. And, to be clear, what is going on is ghastly.
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Helaine just scribbles anything that pops into her empty little head.
The left is still salty about 2016.
So the Compost is recruiting columnists from Slate now?
I was hoping for some “hints from heloise” as to how to overcome nihlism but alas, not to be found. Maybe dear abby.
Without brain dead children where do new journalist come from?
The haters are interchangeable. They a;ll dance to the same puppet master.
Old dung for brains Olen.
Great. Another whine fest from the compost pile.
“They consistently value the short-term self-interest of a wealthy few more than they value our collective future.”
Yes Helaine. I agree with your statement as it pertains to you and your political party’s support of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!
Democrat agenda is DOA in the Senate. They can pass all the spending bills they want in the House.
None of them will see the light of day. Have fun!
Thanks to BTerclinger for the above!
Please read my tagline.
Liberty offends leftists.
NY Resolution:
Let’s make 2019 The Year Of The Do-Nothing Congress!
Helaine Olen, globalist, coastal elite, European-Style socialist, rootless cosmopolitan, etc ...
‘Make America great again’ is nihilism according to the leftist propagandists at the washington stool.
A reckoning is coming and it’s not going to be pretty for these enemies of the people.
Let’s make 2019 The Year Of The Do-Nothing Congress!
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