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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 8 years, 8 months ago
    I say make politicians personally legally culpable for damages produced by the laws they pass.
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    • Posted by DeanStriker 8 years, 8 months ago
      Sorry, that would require a HUGE constitutional amendment that our Rulers will never let get to 1st base. Entities of most-all types exempt their boards from personal liability for virtually anything they might do, and GOVERNment is the worst of the lot!
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      • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 8 months ago
        I continue to look askance at the trend for amending something that no longer exists. Let me sum up your new Constitution lest you forget what you who cast ballots for GOP or Demos supported the last three go rounds.

        Bill of Rights beginning with the requirement for probable cause and all the follow up stuff such as attorneys, warrants, courts, judges, juries etc. now reads, "suspicion of terrorism." Terrorism is not defined. Without those amendments and the rest of the first ten the balance of the document is moot.

        Don't blame me... I didn't vote for left wing fascism - and I'm not the one drooling over Trump and the rest of the right wing of the LEFT.

        Besides even under the old Constitution you couldn't bring a case against the government without it's permission. You should have changed that a couple hundred years ago.

        I feel forced into publishing herein the Couch Potato Poem again.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 8 months ago
    Yes, this article was almost next to the other one I found. This man has done nothing that the EPA should have any involvement in, and here is the real problem with them: Their ability to adjudicate and levy fines. They should be like any other part of government and have to file a complaint with a court, and deem the person in violation, then the judge levies the fines or whatever is needed. That is where the whole system breaks down, and now you have an agency that is unaccountable, and can be used as a tool of the administration. We had e coli going off the next door property in huge amounts and the EPA was not interested, and let the State be their minions, who fined the idiot after 3 years 900.00. Whats the difference?
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 8 months ago
    It may be irrelevant the FACT that this man followed all know regulations the situation is now winding up in a court and the court will determine the outcome. And some still think the usa is a free country.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 8 months ago
    Who is going to levy a fine in the "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" environment of Washington? To date, all I've seen of the executive, legislative and judicial so-called branches of government is that they act like a single large family that has a few interior squabbles, but nothing is ever done to change things in a substantive manner. Come to think of it, they act like a Royal Family, at that.
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  • Posted by DanShu 8 years, 8 months ago
    Bad idea !! The problem is whoever is in power will have the say on whats false or not. Both party's are controlled by Progressive's so who knows what they will claim is true.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 8 months ago
    if we fine the EPA for its mistakes, that's like giving the bank robber
    more money which we have to fight to get back .......

    or like the self-abuse of over-withholding taxes with the IRS
    which we have to endure a paper nightmare to get back!!! -- j
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 8 months ago
    Everything our society, our way of life, has been blamed for is the culpable result of those that point their fingers.
    A reminder to those that point their fingers is that there a 3 fingers pointed right back at them.
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  • Posted by $ prof611 8 years, 8 months ago
    "Johnson reportedly filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Thursday alleging the EPA overstepped its federal authority with the outrageous $16 million in fines." According to the article, he's NOT levying fines against the EPA.

    2. "EPA has not made any determinations regarding penalties in this matter nor made any penalty demand of Mr. Johnson. An order the agency sent to Mr. Johnson in January 2014 cites the maximum penalties for noncompliance established by Congress in the Clean Water Act. References to these penalty provisions are included in all EPA enforcement orders to ensure that respondents are fully aware of the relevant provisions of environmental laws." EPA claims they never actually fined him.
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