IF THE EPA WAS here in 1865 America would still be a third world country - broke with no JOBS.

This was a post by Gerald4 on the Huffington site and then potsed by Lock Piatt in Song of Truth.

The EPA rules and regulation's mere the main factors that destroyed the jobs that used to pay decent wages for a decent days work in the Steel Belt (Rust Belt)!

Why did all of the Copper smelters close in Northern Michigan? EPA

Why did all of the Paper Mills close everywhere in the USA? EPA

Why did all of the Steel Mills close in Pittsburg? EPA

Why did the computer chip manufactur¬ing plants close in the USA? EPA

When the EPA's proposed "Cap and Trade" is passed by the US congress, our remaining petrochemi¬cal industries will relocate to foreign countries and then they will fire most all of their thousands of employees as they close down their refinery businesses in the USA.

If the EPA had been created in 1865, the USA would be a third world country of unemployed beggars today, or maybe a part of Germany or Japan.

If the US economy implodes, the USA will probably resemble India, Mexico, China, etc., as these countries were in the decades before they industrial-ized. I do not believe that any of these foreign countries will help the US citizens if we are in distress.

Almost all products are made with steel, aluminum, plastics, lead, copper, lumber, paper, gasoline, diesel fuel, electricit¬y, and other products that pollute or destroy the environmen¬t as they are produced. I cannot think of any product that is manufactur¬ed using any processes that do not pollute the environmen¬t. Can you think of any?”

Stimulus Collusion

“The House and Senate bills each include about $200 million in additional funding for inspectors general. But some observers say that may be insufficient given the demands.” When the government attempts to “stimulate” the economy by spending, inherently the amount spent has a built in feature to skim lots of that money right of the top. The $200 million is to be spent on people watching the people that dole this money out. The people that dole that money out will also need to be paid, so right away a large amount is being spent just on the action of spending.

Then there is another issue. If the people that do the doling out can’t be trusted how can the inspectors be trust since they are being hired by the same people that hired those to be watched? Remember those that do the hiring are representatives of the recipients of the money. ACORN is to get a lot of money. ACORN is a friend of the government, can we all say collusion? The more the government controls the more controls are necessary. Government involvement always includes government control leading to wasteful use of resources. What ever percentage of this bill may stimulate the economy, a large portion will be used up by the government.

We may not be able to stop this bill but we must stop the politicians that are pushing this country towards an unsustainable system doomed to failure. We can work to remove those with socialist agendas and replace them with those in touch with reality and promoting capitalist democracy.