Posted on 02/07/2005 8:05:02 PM PST by RWR8189
Yeah, Scrap it.
Outstanding Bush-man!!! Should have been alot more -- then those liberal enviro-whackos would have to get a real job for a change, and not be living on OUR MONEY!!!!
Replacing older sewer systems is necessary. But it ought to be done on the local level. Federal handouts are an inherently wasteful way of handling things that state and local government should be doing.
If they don't want to set aside the money do it, then let them handle the resulting problems.
What dropped my jaw was learning that the EPA has armed officers.
What, do they think they're going to have pitched battles with kangaroo-rat poaching cartels?
The key is to make EPA more effective and not just throwing money at it. Prez Bush's plan sounds good to me. Fund necessary projects such as clean drinking water, toxic and waste cleanup, etc., and eliminate unnecessary ones that are waste of resources and tax money.
"Federal handouts are an inherently wasteful way of handling things that state and local government should be doing."
You don't like paying somebody to take your money, then paying somebody else to give part of it back to you--with strings attached?
Da noive of some people.
It's about time he cut something!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Winning Troops
Keep these stories coming. The more they object to the budget the better I like it.
"eliminate unnecessary ones that are waste of resources and tax money."
Start with the unconstitutional taking of private property without due process.
We need a constitutional amendment that swamps are to be called "swamps" and not "wetlands," jungles are to be called "jungles" and not "rainforests," and barking moonbat eco-whackos from Planet Stalin are to be called "barking moonbat eco-whackos from Planet Stalin" and not "environmentalists."
Yet, these programs always find a way to stay alive and then grow. Sort of like fungus.
I'm an environmental scientist and run my own consulting company (since 1991). This is a good idea and President Bush has real guts for even proposing a cut in the EPA budget.
Environmental quality would improve if the EPA budget were cut by 1/3. Most people would not believe what the EPA is involved with these days. Yes, they have their own police force (more like a commando unit). The EPA throws money at the UN and the third world like it was going out of style. The Environmental Justice program is a complete political sham. The agency bureaucracy is enormously bloated and wasteful.
The EPA exceeded congressional authority long ago and needs to be reigned in, for the sake of our environment as well as the budget. It was a regulation factory before President Bush, terribly infected with environmental activism from the Clinton era: a place for watermelons to grow (green on the outside and red inside).
The NRDC and EDF literally wrote government policy and regulations for years. Their lawyers were inside the agency working every day for the activist organizations. The EPA needs a good scrubbin' and this is an excellent start.
Bush deserves high cudos for this move. I am in awe of his courage.
It would be great to get rid of all the environmentalists. Cutting their funding is a good way to start.
"I got a better idea, eliminate the EPA completely, but this is a good start."
Bad idea. You breathe air and drinK water right?
A few (very few) environmental laws like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act actually do something useful - they internalize the costs of environmental externalities. You want an expert agency to draft the regulations that implement the specifics of the law. The real problem are laws like the endangered species act or CERCLA (aka superfund) which are a complete waste.
The EPA needs to be cut, but the quickest way to do that is to repeal alot of stupid laws. I'm a libertarian/conservative and realize you need some sort of EPA to prevent environmental externalities from getting out of hand.
Interesting context. Thanks for your insight. If as you say, sounds as though it will be hard to pass through Congress intact. Hope he succeeds.
Well, it ain't the EPA you're lookin' for, babe. This move by GWB is a first step in cleaning up the pollution of junk science. That stinks worse than sulfite liquor, and it has a tendency to persist much longer than mere physical pollution does.
Good news!
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