When the conservatives and their Tea Party supporters decry the EPA and other "useless" government bloatware, I want...

By
When the conservatives and their Tea Party supporters decry the EPA and other "useless" government bloatware, I want to to remind them of situations like this. Situations where, in order to save a few bucks, companies and local governments pave their own town with cancer causing agents, both literally and metaphorically.

In order to save a few bucks, this town in Missouri cost the American taxpayer $250,000,000.
http://jalopnik.com/they-had-to-demolish-this-town-after-they-paved-the-roa-1488566724

Comments

Nikolai Tkachenko said…
'Twas a radically conservative president that coaxed the EPA into existence (Nixon 1970) in the first place, double shame on them!

Wait, that's damned if they did and damned if they didn't ...
December 24, 2013 at 7:49 PM
Jason ON said…
That's like saying the firemen are useless because they don't prevent fires or the military is useless because it doesn't prevent war.
December 24, 2013 at 7:50 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to...

By
So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to remove me from whatever Circle he has me in where he posts the animated gifs and cat pictures. It was either that or unfollow him and I didn't see any reason to unfollow him. Me asking https://plus.google.com/112885755521259735422/posts/78dwnvvgh4p <==edited to add the correct link Then he plusses me onto Public posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/EuuR1tnU3vJ https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/8r6Grcm2Jpj https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/74PgSu6iL2s Then one of his friends (or Circlers) starts plussing me into posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107120198886093172821/posts/gRW9JhWLs5T Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sarcasm and messing with people, but this seems sort of childish to me. Am I the only one who thinks so? So far I have only blocked
Read more