My plan to help fix [some of] America

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EPA- Some of you guys sound like we either have an unconstitutional, overbearing EPA to protect us, or evil corporations destroy the environment. Because there's nothing in between, like states, responsible consumers, and the fact that everybody breathes the same air and drinks the same water. Do some people act stupid? Of course, but why does the federal government have to punish us all?

Suprisingly i agree with you. The culture of inefficency, lifetime entitlement, and non practical purpouse is so epidemic to the federal ABCs that they are beyond reform. Their original mandatess would be better handled by the states. Of course the states would have to be given legal power to regulate that could not be challenged in other courts, otherwise they would just be overwhelmed by the corporations they would be regulating. In all liklihood the states laws would be decided by crooked politicians on the take to special interests.

"that everybody breathes the same air and drinks the same water. "

Disagree. The CEO of the hooker chemical company didnt live within twenty miles of love canal. The CEO of union carbide was not living in the slum outside the plant at Bhopal. The crooked politicians dont live next to the plants either. If the culture of managment is one of disregarding safety that culture will influence every employee. The recent coal miner deaths come to mind. If deregulation of environmental health and safety occurs leaving a vacumn the result will be as predictable as deregulation of the banking industry and elimination of glass steagal was. Regulation by well educated impartial efficent personel is neccesary to ensure safe communitys.

To sum up (again)

Yes goverment regulation stinks.

No the corporations can not be trusted to self regulate.

What needs to occur is a simaltaneous reduction of corporate and goverment power. That would allow less powerful enities (like the states) to regulate honest businesses in a efficent and impartial fashion thus allowing the ABCs to be disasembled without jepordizing health and safety. I never knew i was such a great science fiction writer.