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What could be worse than closing down key agencies at critical points in our history?
At a time when our children are falling woefully behind other countries, Republicans want to kill the Dept of Education
At a time when Greenhouse gasses are affecting our climate.......Republicans want to close the Environmental Protection Agency
At a time when we are at the whim of an unstable middle east for oil imports......Republicans want to close the Dept of Energy
No we do not need these agencies. They were once controlled by the States--especially education--you remember when. It was when we had kids that could actually read when they graduated from High school. Bush doubled down on education--Obama quadrupled that and our kids are still behind other countries that don't spend 1/10th the amount on education--that we do.
The EPA is the biggest road block to GREEN energy in this country today.
They have stopped 2 hydro-electric dams in California from being constructed--because of some type of mouse in the valley. They have stopped a large wind farm in California from being built because it would have required a single transmission line being run through a national forest. They constantly stop wind farms because they are now complaining that they are killing birds or in the flight path of birds. Your greenhouse gas theory--is all it is--and in it's deception is why you have been completely CONNED into believing that the EPA is actually doing it's job---
While the private-sector is drowning under a perpetual recessionary storm, U.S. regulatory agencies are flourishing. "If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a business, it would be one of the 50 biggest in the country in terms of revenues, and the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald’s, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined," writes John Merline of Investors.com.
Indeed, the federal regulatory business is thriving, and if there is one "victory" President Obama can declare, this is it, because government regulation has grown rapidly under his watch.
Regulatory agencies have seen their combined budgets grow a healthy 16% since 2008, topping $54 billion, according to the annual "Regulator's Budget," compiled by George Washington University and Washington University in St. Louis.
That's at a time when the overall economy grew a paltry 5%.
Since Obama took office, 75 new major regulations have been enacted, costing $38 billion annually, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation. "No other president has imposed as high a number or cost in a comparable time period," wrote James Gattuso, the study’s author.
The Heritage study predicts that this flood of new red tape will only intensify, as hundreds of new regulations will flow from the tentacles of ObamaCare, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, and the EPA’s war on global warming.
Regulatory Agencies Boom Under Obama Administration
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