Excellent example. Thanks.

Look at the fist acts of the EPA when it was formed and it about sums up every act since then.

They decided the beach where the fish processing plants dumped the waste for seagulls to clean up was bad. The beach could be used by people if was just cleaned up and made beautiful.

The lack of food caused tens of thousands of seagulls now dependent upon the feed they were given to clean up to die. This created a health risk that the EPA then "cleaned up" by hiring more people to clean up the dead seagulls.

The waste which was no longer eaten by the Seagulls was dumped in land fills and homes built on top the areas. As the decay occurred it created sink holes that swallowed up homes, the EPA came to rescue again putting regulation around dumps and fill and how it had to be processed....

Then US fishing companies decided not to renew leases from the government to fish in our north eastern waters. It was too expensive to do business. So the Federal government leased out much of our north eastern fisheries to Canadian businesses instead.

The resulting job shortage in the fishing industry in the early seventies was the fault of the greedy businessmen who would not keep fishing because it was not profitable enough any longer.


They killed the fishing industry, causes a mess with the seagulls which we then had to pay even more money to clean that up and caused sink holes with the waste the seagulls use to eat.

That about sums up the usefulness of the EPA. If you want an organization that takes systems that have worked well for 100+ years and breaks them, then breaks them more, and more until there is no longer a need for the system I give you the EPA. Removes more jobs than any other agency.

Well said Rich. +1

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. She is still very respected in environmentalist circles.

Lead works too. :)

The banning of DDT was completely based on a novel, and not a particularly good one. No facts at all involved.

If hastening is the idea then I'm sure we can come up with something quicker than a starvation diet or DDT. ;)

The government prescribed late 20th century diet would likely hasten their demise, but if you insist ;^)

how about just the DDT?

Perhaps a low fat, low cholesterol, low salt diet with a big helping of DDT for dessert.

My anger comes from the fact that these bureaucracies are not responsible nor accountable for their mistakes or miscalculations if they are the cause of a resulting problem. But have a business or lesser government agency exceed the federal arbitrary boundries of their regulations and all are in great jeopardy.

The EPA is beyond useless and has killed more people than it could possibly hope to save. The banning of DDT which was used to kill mosquitoes has caused millions of people to die from malaria. Perhaps this could be a "states rights" rallying cry. The necessary oversight has been done for years so why spend more money and bring in the Feds?

gah...the EPA needs to die.