Comments on: 74% Of Voters Back EPA Power Plant Emissions Regulation

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 04:44:00 +0000

Are you ever right!

It’s hard to believe that 26% of our fellow citizens are as stupid as they are.

By: debra haddix

debra haddix — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 04:30:00 +0000

Wow, there’s a lot of morons out there

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:00:00 +0000

;o)

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:58:00 +0000

You sound like somebody saying the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow and therefore RE is crazy.

Lets move on.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:49:00 +0000

Were there a way to reduce government services by 99% for libertarians without screwing things up for the rest of us.

It would great fun to listen to them howl for their lost services when their planes started running into each other, their drugs no longer cured them, their food poisoned them, their kids couldn’t get assistance with tuition, their cars became death traps, the rivers around them burst into flames, people dumped hazardous waste on their lawns, financial agencies seized their cars and houses and they had no legal recourse, their banks failed and no one stepped up to replace the lost
money, their savings were cleaned out by monopolies increasing the cost of necessities, they reached the end of their working life without Social Security or Medicare, and in the end they died on the sidewalk of a hospital which wouldn’t admit them because the hospital wasn’t required to take them in….

“Hey! We don’t need no stinkin’ government. Just destroy all government and leave us at the mercy of the wonderful people with whom we share the planet. We know that none of them would ever attempt to harm us or take our stuff. A world without governments would be paradise!”

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:22:00 +0000

lol. I should be apologizing to you Doug for getting Bob all riled up. My views on government are not shared by him. (I’m an extreme libertarian who would like to see government reduced by 99% or more.) So I try to stick to common ground. That of moving towards RE.

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:12:00 +0000

Unfortunately I have not had the pleasure to meet anybody from the USGS.

Closest I’ve gotten to knowing anybody from the EPA was a person who ran a chemical R&D lab. She could tell stories about the ignorant EPA officials for days. Despite her close sister being a mucky muck in the upper echelons of the EPA.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:09:00 +0000

Guess I didn’t make my humor attempt obvious enough.

I was doing my best John McCain impression….

By: doug card

doug card — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:07:00 +0000

Usually when I compliment people they say thanks

By: doug card

doug card — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:02:00 +0000

Huh? I just paid you a compliment. Should I avoid comments directed at you? Your post was an excellent response to a person who is ‘part’ (apparently) of the abusing public.

By: S.Nkm

S.Nkm — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:47:00 +0000

Indirectly working for the federal government (USGS), I can tell you from experience that those people are by far the hardest working people I’ve worked with in my career; the furlough was a huge blow to them. Private enterprises? Not even close.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:34:00 +0000

Your experience with my crankiness?

Get off my lawn and turn your cap around the right way!!!

By: dcard88

dcard88 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:19:00 +0000

Yet the experience shows. Nice response.

By: dcard88

dcard88 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:17:00 +0000

LOCV has been around about 40 years longer than the Tea Party and has about the same number of members.

By: A Real Libertarian

A Real Libertarian — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:41:00 +0000

“However, if Democrats cut into the GOP’s House majority”

The latest polls indicate that the Republicans could lose their house majority.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:05:00 +0000

Me, too.

I’m too old and cranky to be putting up with the abuse one gets from the public.

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:40:00 +0000

I’m glad you are no longer a government employee.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:26:00 +0000

“all government officials they work at being inefficient so they can hire more of their kind”

I’ve been a government employee and find that both incorrect and insulting to the many hard working government employees I know and have worked with.
I’ve also worked in private enterprise. There are plenty screw-ups and screw-offs there.

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:53:00 +0000

I like the idea of the EPA but like all government officials they work at being inefficient so they can hire more of their kind. We need to automate their tasks. And the automation needs to be paid for by the companies doing the pollution. The EPA should work at reducing its headcount by working smartly.

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:46:00 +0000

This would be relevant if the US was a functioning democracy. In reality political decisions are determined by the campaign donors of the politicians.