The EPA has morphed into the fourth branch of government and in the process, has greatly nullified our system of representative gov’t.
EPA is staffed by anti-capitalists who seem to gravitate to regulatory gov’t jobs.
Yes, indeed!
The EPA is extra-Constitutional, counterproductive and eminently stifling.
Environmental issues belong to the several states, clearly.
This behemoth needs to disappear.
Mark is good and smart and enthusiastic. He can't do 'to the point' for crap.
He is, of course, right.
Someone should ghostwrite for Mark and bring it down to something that someone besides PhD candidates will read.
/johnny
bump for bookmark
Bttt.
The EPA has become a modern gestapo.
Land and capital are taken by administrative fiat with out any apparent legal check or balance.
Were llevrok president for a day, this agency would be my first closure. IRS would be No.2.
Romney won’t do diddly squat to curb the EPA or the Dept of Energy, Education, et al.
Can we get someone with a spine in office?
Frickin’ A people, getting rid of the EPA won’t do squat! MASSIVELY REWRITE THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, CLEAN AIR ACT, CLEAN WATER ACT, etc., etc. etc!!!
But, as the Anti-Federalists said, freedom cannot be secure if it depends on the character alone of those chosen to govern.
In the big picture, Romney will not support the elimination or even trim the wings of a single agency. He will, as Newt predicted, “manage our decline” as he works with the hapless rino Congressional leadership.
“the EPA has arrogated to itself the right to control vast areas of American life. “
I don’t favor reform, I favor abolition
BUT
The EPA has not arrogated anything to itself. The EPA exercises powers delegated to it by Congress, and Congress, not the EPA, is the root of the problem.
The environmental vomit of the EPA has been passed down to states, created regional pseudo governments, and even lower level of government. The entire spectrum of entities attracts people who like to use government laws and regulations for power over others,powers which they can not get otherwise. These people create their own language under cover of law. They then use their language to make their own law. Nixon didn’t know or realize the government monster being set up and the legislatures/courts bottom to top don’t help or care about the negative consequences.
I agree wholeheartedly with this.
It is somewhat disingenuous to propose that US oil production would have continued at the same rate, but in reality we can’t possibly know how the situation would have developed if the oil industry had more of a free hand. Certainly, right now, it could rapidly close the gap between the blue and green line in absence of the EPA.
I will be sending this on to a few folks I know, including some liberal-leaning folks, to support my attempts to instruct them as to the destructiveness of over-regulation.
Thanks for the post.
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The EPA’s action in Rapanos v US amounted to extortion and outright sedition. Congress refused to hold hearings. The EPA exists because the Congress allows it to exist. The sooner that we realize that Washington is run by a criminal fascist syndicate, the sooner we can start taking action against these totalitarians through the states.
Get ready for war.