EPA Ignoring Economic Impact in Communities
In the rush to impose federal regulations on individual states, the EPA is ignoring the economic impact in communities. The head of the EPA, Lisa P. Jackson, is content to ignore the faceless individuals that she has put on welfare and food stamps. The processes that are being stalled include natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in New York, expansion of ports to take advantage of new ships in South Carolina and the elimination of electric plants that rely on coal in Ohio and other coal states. The EPA claims to be creating jobs, but the only jobs they are creating are paper-pushing jobs and lobbyist positions.
Perhaps the EPA has outlived its usefulness, since each individual state has a Department of Environmental Conservation. An overseeing federal agency that trumps individual state’s rights has the appearance of being a dictatorship, not a democratic relationship.
With the Presidential election close at hand, voters need to decide what is most important – a government that over-reaches and is putting people in their state on the welfare roles, or one that puts the needs of individuals first.
This writer is for a government that puts people to work and doesn’t punt every issue for another 60 or 90 days for comment periods and self-serving reviews that are only stalling tactics. We need people who take action, and not just ponder the idea of taking action. Decisiveness has never been an attribute of the current administration, but perhaps it can be one of the next. Otherwise, we can expect more pandering to special interest groups associated with the EPA, and as a result, more people suffering in communities eviscerated by this government agency.
