Republican Debate

[Cracker]

A few of those laws include "The EPA will..." so take out the EPA part and replace it with what? Honestly, I don't care who is responsible for making sure the environmental laws are followed, as long as they're followed by all the states.

Go ahead. Hand it over to the states. The State of California handles everything well.

As for unionist or nationalist I prefer to think of it as centralization vs. decentralization (at least in this case). Economies of scale and all that; you would think this shit would work better than it does. The EPA employs roughly 18,000 people. If every state had their own environmental enforcement agency, I wonder how many employees that would entail? Just thinking out loud.

I'll look at the videos in a bit.

Ummm, the EPA doesn't enforce ANYTHING.

From their website, so you believe me:

"Many environmental laws allow EPA to authorize state agencies to conduct enforcement activities. EPA works with these agencies to help them develop programs that meet certain criteria that are established in the regulations under a particular law. Once a state program meets the criteria, EPA can approve that program. Upon approval, the state has the primary role for implementing the environmental program. "

The EPA does NOTHING but "develop programs"~ another way of saying "push paper." The states ALREADY ENFORCE THE LAWS.

People don't know how the government works. We have lost touch. I only know some of this stuff because I studied it as part of an academic program, they don't advertise it. You have to look.

We ARE NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S BITCH people. It isn't "us" and "them." The government is OUR BITCH! Take back your bitch!