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FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE WEEK (Fewer EPA workers)
Powerline ^ | September 10,2018 | STEVEN HAYWARD

Posted on 09/10/2018 7:22:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk

I was going to suggest that the most snuggly, feel-good story of recent days was the latest ratings for CNN, which have fallen more than 20 percent over the last year and continued to fall over the summer, such that it now ranks behind the Discovery Channel and HGTV. Makes sense: why tune in to CNN for manure if you can get better manure for your private garden from HGTV?

But this story is much more snuggly feel-good inducing:

EPA lost more than 1,500 workers in first 18 months of Trump administration: report

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reportedly lost 8 percent of its staff in the first 18 months of President Trump‘s administration due to high numbers of departing staffers and a low number of new hires.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that nearly 1,600 workers left the EPA during that time, while fewer than 400 were hired. The agency’s employment has shrunk to its lowest levels since the Reagan administration, the Post noted.

That’s what I call “winning.”

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: epa; morewinning; trumpepa

1 posted on 09/10/2018 7:22:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Trump is running.. Art of the Deal...

Distract from what your really doing or trying to do


2 posted on 09/10/2018 7:24:23 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

EPA employment and NFL fans in a race to the bottom. WINNING


3 posted on 09/10/2018 7:26:45 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Hojczyk

Praying for the day the number is ZERO...!

The libs loathe Nixon but the only real thing I resent him for is creation of that evil leviathan, the EPA....


4 posted on 09/10/2018 7:30:23 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Hojczyk

Fewer government employees is partly why the deep state hates Trump. In their eyes, the government doesn’t work for the people, the people work to feed the ever increasing government.


5 posted on 09/10/2018 7:34:57 AM PDT by robel
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To: Hojczyk

A few thoughts.

Trump is eliminating a lot of regulations. We think the issue is the regulation because we don’t like them. We focus on the content of the regulation.

But the issue behind the issue is, how the regulation was implemented. Trump never discusses the regulation itself, the issue is the how. Currently the bureaucracy posts the regulation on the internet, collect a few responses, and then does what they want. If the bureaucrats/liberals challenge this, they are exposed for what they are.

Trump is saying that is NOT the proper method, therefore the regulation is dismissed. Now, this empowers us also because we can challenge regulation on the same issue with precedence being set.

Now for the thinkers, what is the proper method for implementing regulation?


6 posted on 09/10/2018 7:35:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Hojczyk

8% is a good start, I think the short term 8 year goal should be to cut it by 1/3rd.


7 posted on 09/10/2018 7:36:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Hojczyk

How can the Republic stand without its courtiers and food tasters?


8 posted on 09/10/2018 8:00:23 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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To: Hojczyk

IF 1500 employees is only 8% of your staff, that means the EPA still has WAAAY too many people.

It calculates out to 18,750 employees.

President Trump——PLEASE end this EPA nightmare for all of us. Fir them all.


9 posted on 09/10/2018 8:13:34 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Hojczyk
Scott Pruitt was one of President Trump’s best picks.

In an administration filled with sedition and treachery, that Pruitt was forced out is nothing short of criminal.

10 posted on 09/10/2018 8:18:41 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Hojczyk

YES, I so love winning.


11 posted on 09/10/2018 8:42:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Drew68

“Scott Pruitt was one of President Trump’s best picks.”

YES! Is there any word about what his replacement is doing about “attrition?”


12 posted on 09/10/2018 8:53:02 AM PDT by vette6387
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But...but... a gub’mint job is a God-given right!!!!!!!!!!!!

(LOL)


13 posted on 09/10/2018 9:01:15 AM PDT by simpson96
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Reducing that many employees would likely reduce fecal matter in the halls.

The next lib president could hire that many back in a week though.


14 posted on 09/10/2018 9:48:19 AM PDT by lurk
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Wake me when it gets to 80%...


15 posted on 09/10/2018 1:20:54 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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