This is just too good to be true - what a way to strangle the EPA's strangulation of the country! - Granite Grok

This is just too good to be true – what a way to strangle the EPA’s strangulation of the country!

EPA BustedHuffington Post (boy, this musta hurt reporting this):

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says the agency will “effectively shut down” unless Congress approves stopgap funding by Oct. 1.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the agency won’t be able to pay employees. She says only a core group of people will remain on duty in case the EPA has to respond to a “significant emergency.” The vast majority of employees will stay home.

That means that most of EPA’s functions, like drafting regulations and enforcing laws to protect the environment, will likely remain stalled until government operations fully resume.

Congress has a week left to reach a deal to avoid the first shutdown since 1996. Lawmakers are at odds over a Republican plan to defund President Barack Obama’s health care law as part of the stopgap measure.

Through environmental regulations that they have put on steroids and issuance of them in certain industries (e.g., electrical generation, coal, shale, storm water runoff, sewer treatment, take over of local zoning codes), they have become an entire unelected and unaccountable government unto itself and has put itself in the enviable Progressive position of regulating almost every area of American life.  All it takes is bureaucrats interested in that power and having fairies thoughts dancing in their heads that we can continue to have a modern society without any modern energy sources to drive them.  And in the case of other areas, they are issuing regulation upon regulation that will strictly constrict where and how we are to live our lives.

That is not Freedom – having others making major decisions for us with little or no input from us.  As far as I’m concerned, let the whole Agency go fallow.  The States all have their own equivalents and know much better what is needed and what is important for their States.  Here is a GREAT opportunity for the US House (from which all appropriations must begin) to follow their own Platform in pursuing  and achieving, in part, a more limited government.  The only question will be: will they fumble this ball that the other side simply laid at their feet?

 

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