What federal agency would you like to see abolished?
Bill
2012/12/27 17:33:47
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Top Opinion
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santa6642 2012/12/27 19:20:59
EPA - environmental protection agency - these people need to be more active, not banned.
For those of us who have never used explosives, if stored improperly - they kill everyone around. If detonated randomly (very easy to have happen), they kill everyone around.
If you negligently discharge a firearm, it can only go in the direction that your firearm is pointed. Much easier to control.
A history of abuses of law can be traced back to this agency from the the Waco mass murder of innocent children and adults to the killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry just to mention several.
The EPA can be bad, because it is subject to the changes in political leadership.
For example, while under Nixon the EPA achieved it's reputation as a effective, balanced regulatory agency and with great popularity & public approval made vast strides in cleaning pollution from our air and water.
Under Carter and later Presidents it's record is more murky, as it was used to promote political goals.
For example, with Nixon's resignation OPEC had won the energy war.
Under the "OPEC Presidents" (Carter, Reagan, Bush's, Clinton) The EPA was used as 'cover' for the elimination of Nixon Energy Independence program.
1. They stopped any expansion of hydroelectricity dams (protecting fish and 'delicate canyon ecologies".
2. And vastly helped the derailment of nuclear power.
3. Basicly totally ignored coal as a pollutant. (Coal is part of OPEC).
At the same time the President mandated we had to use coal for generating electricity and for every other possible purpose, and even outlawed natural gas generators "for the good of the country".
So the EPA is bad, since its a tool for plutocrats economic politics, rather than the best interest of the people, if the public is not watchful. Like the past thirty five years.
But the previou...
The EPA can be bad, because it is subject to the changes in political leadership.
For example, while under Nixon the EPA achieved it's reputation as a effective, balanced regulatory agency and with great popularity & public approval made vast strides in cleaning pollution from our air and water.
Under Carter and later Presidents it's record is more murky, as it was used to promote political goals.
For example, with Nixon's resignation OPEC had won the energy war.
Under the "OPEC Presidents" (Carter, Reagan, Bush's, Clinton) The EPA was used as 'cover' for the elimination of Nixon Energy Independence program.
1. They stopped any expansion of hydroelectricity dams (protecting fish and 'delicate canyon ecologies".
2. And vastly helped the derailment of nuclear power.
3. Basicly totally ignored coal as a pollutant. (Coal is part of OPEC).
At the same time the President mandated we had to use coal for generating electricity and for every other possible purpose, and even outlawed natural gas generators "for the good of the country".
So the EPA is bad, since its a tool for plutocrats economic politics, rather than the best interest of the people, if the public is not watchful. Like the past thirty five years.
But the previous conditions were far worse, with no oversight and our country looking like China does today, and local governments overwhelmed by the mega corps. who prefer dealing with 50 or more fragments of the country, that they can then can pit against each other, rather than a single unified marketplace.
with a spotted owl hung round their neck!
Read my post above about the EPA.
Being angry with the EPA is like being angry at the stick that hits you.
It's the person wielding the stick that's beating you that is your enemy. Attacking the stick is not going to help.
BTW, it's not this vague unspecified unknowable group you call "Liberals" behind EPA.
Its Rockefeller Coal, BP, BofA, who have used it to promote and maintain their monopolies.
All of it!
America started without a federal government and did just fine.
America had a direct democracy as a response to local needs and issues where all concerned citizens could discuss and decide questions that immediately affect their lives, such as land use, parks, schools and community services.
We would, in getting rid of our federal government decentralize federal functions to the county and city level and seek expanded oversight and decision-making power of local governing bodies, such as neighborhood boards and associations, over issues that pertain to their jurisdiction. In their own communities, by the people who live in that community like the old city hall building use to do to mandate government to that area, not people in Washington D.C. who work for our federal government who mandate everyone in America do the same thing regardless of the millions of differences there are in America among all the different peoples that live here.
Local government is the best government, it's the way America started before a federal government screwed everything up!
Over and over again though, Nixon is the exception. He closed the camps and undid the laws controlling our political activities, and we could think and say whatever we wanted.
Like with most of Nixon's reforms, they were gradually undone by the "Patrician class" Presidents we have had since.
The unelected left-wing bureaucrats of the EPA have done more to drive American business to foreign shores than any possibility of cheap labor.
Has it ever occurred to you that it might be to your advantage to continue cowering in the corner, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, mewling and whimpering unintelligibly as you drool and slobber on yourself and let the world THINK you're a demented fool as opposed to rising up on your hind legs, croaking out some moronic bit of drivel and removing all doubt?