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Economist finds EPA analysis of water rule flawed
American Farm Bureau Federation ^ | May 29, 2014

Posted on 05/31/2014 2:17:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Gen.Blather

>>While you might get a majority to say this or that is unconstitutional it opens up the entirety of the mess to a level of scrutiny that would bring every special interest in the world into play. <<

BINGO!


21 posted on 05/31/2014 5:52:19 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: Logical me; All
This bunch of idiots are insane...

No so.

They're the first line troops for Agenda 21 - BMI is another - they are tasked with getting control over every inch of land and water in the country..and they've been preforming far more efficiently than most any other gov't agency you can name

22 posted on 05/31/2014 8:57:36 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Only the EPA would regulate a ditch as a "waterway".

This is nothing new. When I first started working as an adult, this was a constant struggle against federal bureaucracies and blatant overreach. These ditches were declared "navigable waters, with a straight face. By the Corps (corpse?) of engineers.

The purpose was totally transparent, the attempt expanded to absurd lengths until they tried to declare winter puddles and farm/ranch dug water holes off limits for private use. Eventually there even didn't have to be water there for more than a few weeks. If water related plants grew there even "ephemerally," the private ownership was compromised.

Thus the Supreme Court had to slap down the abuse, almost entirely exercised by lifetime career bureaucrats, eventually. Several times.

Almost every agency of the Federal government now, primarily after the EPA and it's multiple daughters were hatched and enforced, have had their shot at grabbing jurisdiction of all waters, nationwide wherever they are. I'm not sure about the Interstate Commerce thing...

23 posted on 05/31/2014 10:13:39 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: maine-iac7
BMI is another

What does "Body Mass Index" have to do with the topic?

24 posted on 05/31/2014 10:22:15 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: publius911

OOPS! ‘meant BLM -

I’m too old for all these acronyms :)


25 posted on 06/01/2014 6:46:27 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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