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Obama’s EPA Is Killing More Jobs than Economy Can Create

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EPA_logoObama says he will get focused on the jobs problem just as soon as he returns from his August vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Like the more famous Hamptons, the Vineyard is a playground of the rich and famous out to find some summer enjoyment on the Atlantic shore. Just before leaving, Obama articulated his number one goal is to grow the economy.

But while Obama is playing jetsetter, back in Washington a crucial regulatory agency, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been captured by a group of extremists who actually believe the USA would be better off with a smaller economy.

In some of the economy’s most hopeful corners, these bureaucrats are wielding all of the levers of regulatory authority in their arsenal to kill growth. Just as the “green shoots” of recovery sprout, they come along with a can of herbicidal regulations and kill the sprout. As long as Obama leaves these extremists in charge of the agency, the economy is unlikely to recover and will suffer.

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  • Pat Sinclair

    The EPA has the water shut down in California because of a fish, the logging shut down in Oregon because of a spotted owl, and oil shut down in Texas because of a reptile. What is this country coming to. All of these regulations and many more need to be repealed and gotten rid of so the country can grow again. Obama does not know anything about business or how the world works. He just thinks he does. The new man to solve our problem has not experience in business and only suggested a 5% tax and tell me how that is going to make jobs and grow the economy. Obama must thinks the people are really dumb. He needs to go and get somebody that knows how to get the job done. Obama is destroying our country. Impeach him.

    • Healthy Home

      You are NUTS. How can you be for ruining our environment? Do you want clean air to breath and clean water to drink? Do you want the planet to start cooling a bit instead of melting before our eyes? The things you referenced, some fish in the water in California and the spotted owl in Oreogn, didn’t even happen during Obama’s presidency. Are you saying Bush grew the economy with more jobs? You may be right if you are only talking about the wealthy (Haliburton – - – aka Cheney) and the corporations such as the oil industry making billions in PROFITS or GE paying no taxes and getting billions of dollars back from our tax dollars. He did send a lot of our young people to invade Iraq. Is that what you mean by employing people and growing the economy? Just because Bush didn’t allow the returning dead bodies to be shown doesn’t mean our sons and daughters didn’t die over there. No thoughts about green jobs or is the word “green” a dirty word to you? Dirty water and air are okay with you?

      • Infidel

        YOU are NUTS.
        BO is doing everything he can to STOP Job growth. The things Pat mentioned are all true. There are thousands of jobs waiting to be created by the Trans Canada-US pipeline with VERY little environmental impact and HUGE job growth, not to mention cheaper gas.
        The government made ‘drought’ in Central Californica needs to end. They are drying up food producing farms because of some bait fish.

      • Max Penn

        The EPA is out of control. Obama has a plan to collapse the economy, the EPA is a perfect
        tool for the job. Forcing people to pay 300,000 dollars for a permit to build a house of their
        own property has what to do with the environment?? Can anyone tell me?? This is going on
        in the north west of America. We now have laws governing light bulbs, we band the old
        incandescent bulbs for fluorescence bulbs, but we can not make fluorescence bulbs in
        America because the EPA has regulations making things with Mercury in it next to impossible.
        Green power, yaaa, right on! Use solar power, yah well making solar panels in the US is next
        to impossible as well, since it takes lote of very toxic stuff the the EPA does not like.
        If Mr Healthy Home had a clue he would be a genius, well maybe not.

  • Rudloph

    The ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AGENCY is useless, it just makes our economy worse. Their whole existence depends on pollution and bad mouthing it. The more pollution the better off they are. No pollution = no job! Why not name them the waste management agency? This implies an attempt to solve pollution problems NOT being pollution police! Just garbage managers. When I lived in England, we had garbage collector immigrants from Ireland. Once a year I would give them a bottle of Irish Whiskey at xmas and boy did they ever have fun on top of garbage. I think the EPA should hire workers from Ireland and pay them enough so they could enjoy Irish Whiskey managing our pollution.

    • Healthy Home

      Please go back to England.

      • Infidel

        Healthy Home Please go back to Hell. You are the worst of the wacko environmentalists
        Global Warming????
        NOT Man Made
        Look up in the sky. Did you ever notice that big bright thing or do you sleep all day?
        Moron

  • Gary

    No surprise here. Does anybody really believe that Obama is serious on creating jobs. He is intent on destroying everything possible. Part of the Muslim plan.

    • Healthy Home

      It’s great you are so well versed on the “Muslim plan”. Where did you read about it? As far as I’ve read most of the Muslim population is peaceful and that’s the message they want to offer. I know a few and they’ve never indicated they have a “plan” any more than the Christians did and do by inflicting their beliefs on all the world’s population. Have you never read what they did to the American Indian population? It was nothing short of abdominal. What about Mormons going on missions to spread “their plan”. So, how is the “Muslim plan” any different?

      • Infidel

        READ THE KORAN, Health NUT
        Mohammed was a warlord. His 1st converts were camel jockeys from the 1st caravan he hijacked outside Medina. “Join me or off with your head”
        And it continues today.
        Mohamed the pedophile had a 6 year old wife, Ayisha, but being a gentleman he didn’t consumate the marriage until she was nine.
        Mohammed was poisoned by a Jewish Slave girl that he had raped. It took him a week to die.
        How can anyone worship a man like this

  • Carolyn Kane

    I am always amazed at how much power the E.P.A. has gained in the U.S.A. none of these people were ever voted in yet they control every part of our lives. I think it is time for people to start looking at everything that they do and if it is even legal. They control what we eat what cars we drive ,the fuel we use the water we drink even the light blulbs we us. They have their hands in every part of our lives. This is a very scary thing to look at if you really start thinking about all the control that they have over American people.

    • Nancy

      Them and also the FDA. Did you know that with the last Food Bill they snuck through, Codex is included in it (they’ve been trying to get that through for a decade with no success). Codex will make all vitamins and supplements out of our reach except through an MD. You will start to see the small (good) supplement companies going out of business over the years. Codex was passed in Europe years ago and they just made all vitamins and supplements by prescription only.

      Oh they are also intent on getting rid of all small, independent farmers.

    • Healthy Home

      It is scary that one organization has so much power, however, how scary would it be without it? If you really want to see something scary, read the National Geographic July 2011 article “Food Ark”. Protecting our environment does hurt but it would hurt a lot more if we don’t.

      • Infidel

        You are an idiot

  • Larry Owens

    Get rid of a lot of dept of this, dept of that, what a crock of baloney to much BIG Government and to much BIG Taxes. I really think the american people can live without all the stupid Gov. departments making our lives less productive and hurting our economy. But of course what would the Big over Bloated Gov. officials have to do if we shut down their little play grounds. To many chiefs and not enough indians.

  • Robert FG

    How about the department of Energy being eliminated too. They dont do anything at all for us. The EPA is really outmoded and completely unnecessary too. Do you know they ae closing coal mines which is the principal fuel used to produce our electricity? The BHO administration is choking our economy by prohibiting our use of oil, coal, and nuclear energy. We will soon have black outs and power cut offs because of the lack of power plant production. But I forgot, this is all part of the master plan to make us a third world society like Kenya and most of europe.

    And to declare co2 to be dangerous to our health. That means we exhale posionous gases. I guess we will have to stop breathing next to purify the air. Their will be no one living to appreciate how great the atmosphere is after we are all dead.

  • LoneStar

    Obama is as busy as a Bee, working to get those Welfare Jobs, Food Stamp Jobs, and unemployment Benefit Jobs up and Going. These Jobs will create more of these type of Jobs, and before you know it we will all be back to work. Goodbye obama Hello [Rick Perry.]

    • Larry Owens

      I agree, after all a fifth grader could do better than oblammer/ombuma wanna be president and his solution is more stimulus spending creating more Gov. jobs and temporary jobs. When will the American people rise up and say NO MORE! Of course our vote and voice means nothing to the stupid clowns trying to run our country in the ditch.

  • Higgs

    Uh, the EPA and their regulations didn’t clean up the enviroment, advances in technology caused the decrease of pollutants released into our air and water. Now, the EPA is becoming to the “regulation world” as what unions have become to the working world. Both were needed in the beginning, but now they both are one part of the “big government” ideal of the socialists in Washington. Now, with Obama ignoring the Constitution, the Dems making laws based on a farce of global warming, businesses are being “regulated” out of business – on purpose. It’s all part of the plan to weaken our great country and everything to be under the control of the government. It’s time to fight ladies and gentlemen; a new revolution. There’s too many in our government who are “closet” socialists ready to profit from the destruction of America and Capitalism.

    • http://bubba Grecko

      Higgs; You hit the nail on the head. Also; what about all the babies paid for by the welfare encentive! In another 12 years the new crop will be sucking our future dry with more welfare babes. More babes the more welfare,food,housing,medical,and on and on. This country is going down the tubes because of the liberials. KING OBAMO is the leader of the tribe! When will lazy citizens get out,see the light and VOTE! We will soon be outnumbered by minorities. We have paid for this through the welfare system. God Bless America! Land of Freebies.

  • joycer

    Not EPA related, but in thinking about the senators and congressmen who are saying there will be an increase in taxes and reduction in “entitlements” in order for the US to pay their bills? I have a proposal for them:

    Let each Senator, Congressman and all members of the US Government employee pool, first sacrifice their “lifetime salaries and/government benefits, then retire on Social Security and what money they have saved, give up their fully paid health care covering the very best of care in the very best of hospitals, their medicines, doctor bills and all other perks, and buy their own health insurance just like we do. When and if they are ready to first offer their sacrifices, we may just be able to do some sacrificing as well – but not until then.

    Mr. President, Vice President, Senators, Congressmen and all other Government employees both currently employed and those already retired, when you are ready to sacrifice as you are asking us to do, we may meet you at the table to discusss. Until then, you’re on your own until 2012 Election.

    Fair enough? We think so. If you like this, send to your Congressmen and Senators.

    Mr., Mrs. and Ms John Q Public
    The overworked, underpaid and most highely taxed Americans.

  • Johnnie hogue

    Y’all talk too much. Has any of you started a petition yet for me to sign. My guess is that you haven’t. Talk goes nowhere what we need are people of action. Would the someone who needs a job and can’t find work anyway start a petition. I’m too busy trying to keep my business afloat. Thanks

  • Larry

    Since Obama and most of the people who are his advisors have never done a job of work or held an honest job in their whole worthless lives they have no idea what a job is.

    The EPA is basing their ever lower limits on “pollutants” on the ever lowering detection limits available through advancements in analytical chemistry. I worked as an analytical chemist for over 30 years and detection limits went down nearly yearly for everything from pesticides to heavy metals. Where low parts per million limits were considered good in the late ’60′s and into the early 70′s by the time I retired 12 years ago detection limits were in the low parts per billion. EPA seems to think that those lower detection limits should be the allowable limits with no proof that these lower, harder to achieve levels will improve health. Nobody has shown that that is a fact or just some crystal ball theorizing. I tend to think that it’s the latter.

  • GreenExterminator

    Dave, Dave, Dave! Who peddled that bunch of barnyard manure to you.

  • Dave Roe

    On the contrary, the EPA, much to do to clean up this dirty environment we are living in. It is estimated that the cleaning up the environment further increaee over a million jobs in the privat sector, this inlcudes cleaning up the our rivers, lakes, shores, parks, invetning new ways to clean up CO2′s, clean air will reduce many lung related illnesses. And in the long run it will save billions of dollars, iven God would like that. O yes, I forgot Global Warming, the big Gorilla in room, is the big culprit destroying this planet, I would like to leave a clean planet for our children and grandchildren.

    • Larry

      Dave I have to believe that your scientific knowledge has to be on about the same level as your ability to type and/or spell. At one time the EPA did valuable things, but they’ve gotten to the point where all they’re concerned about is keeping their own jobs by requiring more and more and stricter regulations on industry. Reducing CO₂ emissions is of very little proven use, it’s only something that Algore can understand and blather on about. Did you know that water vapor has four time the “greenhouse” effect that CO₂ does? Yet we’re told that the only emission from some new wonderful green technology will be water vapor – if of course this wonderful new green technology can be produced at anything approaching a salable price without massive government (read tax money) incentives.

    • Joe Ferraro

      THE EPA is the BIG GORILLA in the room.We don’t need them,we should get rid of them.

  • James

    Only thing Obama focus’s on is giving Gov’t control over our right to work rather than allow it to come thru our Creator, as do all rights in accordance with our Declaration of Independence……

  • James

    Of course, in order to make people into dependents of Govt they must destroy our private sector. This is a fight over who is in control, weather it be “We The People” as established by our rule of law, or our public servants,NOT, who seek to create a Centralized World Gov’t to rule over men as they see fit……

    • K

      and then they will kill a lot of you. Population reduction used to be talked about a lot, but now it is an unspoken goal.

  • http://bighealthreport.com Barbann

    EPA has ourlived its usefulness as has most federal agencies. Get rid of EPS, MNLB, Department of Education and save a bundle. Wouldn’t hurt to limit IRS to a Fair Tax law also. The Health Care Bill is going to make this department much too powerful. Oh, and while I am at it, I can think of several laws recently instated that we could do without, namely Dodd-Frank and a few others.

    • http://bighealthreport.com Barbann

      Sorry, that should be EPA and NLRB. Got carried away.

  • David

    The EPA has caused my harm not to mention the cost aspect then the good it was said it would do.

  • mike

    congress can enact laws to strip the epa of everything

  • Ed

    EPA, another stupid liberal idea!

    • G

      No! Like I Said In Another Discussion Yesterday, The Republicans RINO’S Have CreatedThe Stupid Wayward Agency’s Under The Do Good Fancy Just To Buy Demoncrat Votes, in atempts To Regain or Get Power. THE EPA Was Created in 1970 by an Executive Order of President Nixon. Most All Of These Agency’s Were created By So-Called Republicans. Check It Out.

      • NancyJ

        I did. You have to do more checking. Wrong again Barryite.

    • Alex

      I have news for you: President Nixon, who was a RINO, but not necessarily a “liberal”, created the EPA, and henceforth the economy began began the downward spiral with several recessions since them. Obama and his obedient Communist goons, have overregulated us to the point of mass unemployment and S&P’s downgrade from AAA to AA! Long live the Tea Party!

    • NancyJ

      I really thought it would be enough to get rid of the Dept of Education, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obviously, the EPA has to be added to the list.

      Save the USA!

      • Nanna Gail

        NancyJ: There are a whole lot of departments and angencies that need to be closed down. For instance, Ice; TSA; Homomeland Security; DOJ; just to name a few more. Then they need to fire all the Czars that have been “appointed” and close or heavily “reduce” the Departments THEY were running. There are many others also, but you get the gist of it I think.

  • Ed

    Yep, EPA. Another stupid liberal idea!