Discussion: Trump Says He Will Cut The EPA As Prez: 'We'll Be Fine With The Environment'

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Without the EPA we would end up with pollution like China or what they are seeing in Rio for the Olympics.

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Here’s another stickler to shoot at Republicans…the EPA’s creation was a bi-partisan effort.

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“So the Department of Education is one,” he continued. “Environmental
Protection, what they do is a disgrace. Every week they come out with
new regulations. They’re making it impossible —”

Wallace interjected, “Who’s going to protect the environment?”

“They — we’ll be fine with the environment,” Trump replied. “We can leave a little bit, but you can’t destroy businesses.”
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“What the EPA does is a disgrace” Trump says. I guess he wants dirty air and food full of disease and maggots.
And “We can leave a little bit”…little bit of what? An “environment”? What the holy fuck is he saying? Does he think human activity has no effect on the planet? If what I understand is correct then we are all well and truly screwed should this person get elected. This man’s level of misunderstanding is epic.

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The rich aren’t like you and me…so he’ll be fine.

His supporters and everyone else who would have to live in that dystopia…place your bets.

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All of us breathe, I assume, and so his being rich won’t save him from foul air.
He eats so his food comes from somewhere in the food chain.
Does he drink tap water? Or is his water from a special source? One way or another we all live in the same environment. If it has been fouled then we are all in it together. It looks to me as if Trump thinks his money and station in life sets him apart. He seems utterly clueless as to how laws are made, what he can do as President, how the Congress operates and what its powers are. He talks in vague generalities and offers no specifics. Fine for the rubes but not thinking people.

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As are his comments on Common Core. The whole point was to develop a common curriculum by agreement among the states, because of the failure of any federal guidance.

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That would be the same Department which is providing roads in Michigan some time in the future? And did such a splendid job of providing water in Flint?

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Huh. I can only guess that he neither knows nor cares that the Cuyahoga River once caught fire. A river. Caught fire. We could give Rump a couple of guesses as to how that could have happened…

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Shorter Trump: Businesses are sacred. The Planet? Not so much.

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Following in the intrepid footsteps of Rick Perry, I see. Just as well he didn’t try to name a third agency he would cut.

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It’s all great and hurrah until the Cuyahoga River catches fire (again).

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Trump is a complete and utter fool.

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At least 13 fires have been reported on the Cuyahoga River, the first occurring in 1868. Business was booming.

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"No, I’m not cutting services, but I’m cutting spending.

What?

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I’m originally a Detroiter too, but I lived in Cleveland for a few years. I remember vividly flying the small planes between the two places and seeing the outflow from the Cuyahoga River into Lake Erie — the stain from the pollutants out of the steel plants and refineries in the Flats produced a stain that reached out in the lake for some miles. Some years later, the river famously caught fire as the surface gunk was a good part petroleum waste.

Richard Nixon’s ghost is walking — he initiated the EPA.

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Hearing someone like Trump whine about regulations sounds a lot like a bad athlete complaining about the rules or the refs. Good players manage to do well with whatever rules are in place. The not so good players often make up for their lack of physical talent by bending the rules, and once those rules change, they can’t compete.

If you can’t stay in business because of regulations, maybe the problem is not the regulations, but that you have a crappy product or you have poor business skills.

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Burn On

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on
Now the Lord can make you tumble
And the Lord can make you turn
And the Lord can make you overflow
But the Lord can’t make you burn

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“We can leave a little bit…”

Right on. Too much clean air and water and people get spoiled and lose the incentive necessary for hard work. I say let’s save the clean stuff for the really productive rich white people who create jobs.

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I was visiting my parents home in Ohio when the river caught fire in 1969 near the Republic Steel Mill. My folks lived at the other end of the state tho. But I was in the news:


But, it’s not the only time that river burned. 1952, and others. I doubt Trump knows or cares. Unless Nixon is reincarnated I cannot think of a worse choice for President than Trump. Nixon did create the EPA but I still count him the worst POTUS we have had.

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Oh goody, I can’t wait to see you try that move, Donald!