Posted on 08/25/2012 12:41:46 PM PDT by IbJensen
“In addition, landlords can still be fined even if they prove that their property is free of lead-based paint. In that case, the EPA will merely “adjust the proposed penalty downward.””
Complete bull squats!
Instead of fining them, the EPA should give them a grace period to hand out the pamphlets. These huge fines are ridiculous.
1. Do not rent to people who have young children.
2. If you have renters who have young children, do not renew the lease
3. Do not rent to people who you suspect would use this law to try to get some kind of compensation from you or who would hire an ambulance chaser lawyer.
Profile, profile, profile.
Sign and Date?? wow.
March 29, 2012
With the country focused on this week’s high drama at the Supreme Court, President Obama’s EPA quietly released long-delayed regulations to apply global warming rules never authorized by Congress to new coal-fired power plants.
>>3. Do not rent to people who you suspect would use this law to try to get some kind of compensation from you or who would hire an ambulance chaser lawyer.<<
4. DO NOT RENT TO LAWYERS!
Bump
The EPA is a headless monster with an Agenda and the means to tear America down from within in the hopes of taking us back to the stone age.
Your own downthread post 25 even says so!
"EPA quietly released long-delayed regulations to apply global warming rules never authorized by Congress to new coal-fired power plants."
I agree Congress created this monster and Congress should kill it (although I think the President can as well). But the EPA is inherently evil.
Look at the label on your Christmas lights. It says "wash your hands"..."wires contain LEAD".
EPA is but one of the Federal “poster children” of “Mission Creep”. When this Agency was first authorized (1970 under R.Nixon), there was ample reasons for its creation. Now, the air and water are emphatically cleaner but all of those bureaucrats still need work and so smaller and smaller items of dispute become magnified.
Same things with “Endangered Species Act” and “Navigable Waters Act”. These are well-intentioned laws to meet perceived public needs, but we all need to remember what path is paved with “good intentions”! Every bureaucracy functions like a living organism, it either grows or dies. Are there any statues of government employees who did away with their own job(s)?
That goes without saying!
Decades ago in New York area tenements, black fatherless children ran out of things to do so they started eating the paint off the walls.
Unfortunately, as with most imported toys from China, the lead seeped into the little brains and caused them to behave unnaturally. Like either embracing homosexuality or desiring to rape little girls.
Only in Bizarro Land. In Realityville, the EPA was granted carte blanche to write and enforce it's own view of the world in a lot of areas.
Congress is due full blame for creating the monster that is the EPA, but the EPA has long ago slipped any leash held by the Congress.
The EPA needs to be shut down, and all then-current employees of the EPA re-assigned to a rubber room like that used for failed teachers in NYC.
I suspect if you go to this gubmint site and download this pamphlet, you are automatically put on a list of people the EPA will visit.
Can you not see the zeal with which EPA is expanding their mandate by broad interpretation of the laws passed by Congress?
Yes, Congress is responsible for creating these messes but the administration administrates the laws as they see fit within their interpretation of the law.
The best man at our wedding and his wife bought a three family house in New Haven, Connecticut in the early 1990’s because they weren’t from the area because the wife was getting her PhD at Yale and the real estate agent convinced them that the area was undergoing a “revival”. (Yeah, but only the area 4 blocks closer to the shore.
Brian was very good at fixing things up and turned this old home into a masterpiece. He put in inlay tile, added al kinds of architectural features, the house was gorgeous. He and his wife rented the first floor to a single mom with a few kids. Youngest kid was known for eating anything, especially the dirt in the yard.
Anyway, the single mom’s dirt eating kid ends up with a really high level of lead in his blood. because the single mom got state aid, the state came in and went through the house from top to bottom. They found lead paint on one (1) window sill. This meant that they could sue Brian for big bucks!!
Moral of the story - never rent to anyone on the dole
Don’t SIGN anything and go for a jury trial over this crap...
Somewhere along the way, most people sign their name to something that entangles them in the administrative rather than legal side of this type of crap...
Don’t SIGN anything and go for a jury trial over this crap...
Somewhere along the way, most people sign their name to something that entangles them in the administrative rather than legal side of this type of crap...
From Atlas Shrugged:
Continues bureaucrat Ferris: “Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against . . . We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted [Frederick Mann: Obfuscation of meaning is a key element of the con games bureaucrats and politicians play.] - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
If anybody knows a delegate to the RNC, they could raise a ruckus with 2,500 stamped postcards. On each would be a list of government agencies, and by what percent delegates think that each of their budgets should be reduced.
_EPA
_DOJ
_ENERGY
_EDUCATION
_HUD
_HHS
_TREASURY
_INTERIOR
_AGRICULTURE
_COMMERCE
_LABOR
_TRANSPORTATION
_HOMELAND SECURITY
_FDA
_USDA
_NOAA
_INTERIOR
_CORP FOR NATL AND COMM SERVICE
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