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

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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

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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
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