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2017-02-28 Home Front: Politix

POTUS Wants To Cut EPA's Budget By $2 Billion, Cut 3,000 Staff

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-28 06:07|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 EPA.gov, topics A-Z

Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-28 07:13|| 2017-02-28 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 good. cut off any staff involved in the climate change scam.

that money can be better spent on fusion research

Posted by anon1 2017-02-28 07:26|| 2017-02-28 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Bricks! Spend it on bricks for the wall.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-28 07:37|| 2017-02-28 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, choke the purse strings. Next legislation controlling the number of senior officials each Department can have, they've been doing it with the military for generations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-28 07:54|| 2017-02-28 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I love the idea but does anyone actually think the graft merchants of the GOPe in the congress will go along with it?

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-28 08:08|| 2017-02-28 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Next legislation controlling the number of senior officials each Department can have, they've been doing it with the military for generations.

Eliminating those positions would go some way towards reversing the midnight appointments of political appointees to permanent civil service posts.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-02-28 08:44|| 2017-02-28 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I love the idea but does anyone actually think the graft merchants of the GOPe in the congress will go along with it?

If they want to keep their phony bologna jobs they will...

Seriously, I doubt congress will cut that much. To much too fast and change scares them. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 1 billion dollar cut though.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-28 09:41|| 2017-02-28 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Our government has grown without bound and spent money like junkies except that money is their fix. For too long, the Beltway Party has tried to solve unemployment problems by hiring bureaucrats at the expense of everything else. They have managed to strangle private business with too many ridiculous regulations.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-02-28 10:06|| 2017-02-28 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunately an organization like the EPA really is needed. Its just that like all b'acracys it turns into an excercise in Empire Building. Their function should be a branch of the Dept of Interior. The reason it or something like it is needed we all know some business's would be perfectly willing to dump whatever they damn well please into the environment. We've had enough Love Canals

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-02-28 11:15|| 2017-02-28 11:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Unfortunately an organization like the EPA really is needed.

Until they try to regulate every property that has a puddle on it. And put family farms out of business when they let a field lie fallow because they define that to be a "change" in how the land is used and therefore they own it. Fuc& them.

Posted by gorb 2017-02-28 12:30|| 2017-02-28 12:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually I think the planned budget savings for this and a few others (plus foreign Aid cuts) were going to the Defense Department increases Trump wanted.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-28 14:12|| 2017-02-28 14:12|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with Darth up to a point, but, while we don't need any more Love Canals we don't need any more Animas Rivers either. Animas River is what you get when a bureaucracy out grows its britches.

And growth is the raison d'etre of any bureaucracy......and the graft that comes with it.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-28 15:32|| 2017-02-28 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Close it down and let states handle it

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-02-28 16:57|| 2017-02-28 16:57|| Front Page Top

#14 He's also rescinding their water grab whereby they had control and usage denial of every "navigable" water including stock ponds, puddles, that sweat on your brow...

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-28 19:21|| 2017-02-28 19:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Don't stop with just the EPA. I'd LOVE for Trump to target the CDC. They somehow lost their focus, and now instead of preparing (rightly) to deal with whatever REAL "disease" might threaten the health of this country, the CDC now spends far too much time and money imagining that THEY are the NAGS that should lecture us on salt consumption, guns, etc.

"Mission creep" is a serious problem found in virtually every government agency.

Posted by Crusader 2017-02-28 20:38|| 2017-02-28 20:38|| Front Page Top

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