Hiku said:
Trump is already planning on defunding the EPA to the point of nearly shutting them down ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/donald-trump-plans-to-abolish-environmental-protection-agency ), and wants to remove all restrictions on mining and fracking. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-fi-trump-fracking-20160922-snap-story.html |
The EPA has largely failed to do what the agency is designed to do. I know first hand, working at an oil refinery in Oregon that is legally allowed to poison the atmosphere directly above us which is caught in the wind current and chokes out a population of people about 1 mile north of us. They've called the EPA. They've called the DEQ. They've tried getting OSHA to stop us, all for nothing. Oh. And we're located literally -right- next to a wild life preserve. I ask myself way too often who's bright idea it was to build a fucking oil refinery next to a wild life preserve, and how any responsible governing body could allow that to happen. It's a complete joke.
These agencies are willingly and knowingly incompetent. And look at our joke of an education system. My state personally has eliminated state testing in the last few years, and high school drop out rates continue to climb. Why then are we funding these programs with our taxes when they are demonstrably failing? Everyones so salty that he said he was going to be president and he is, but it's time for people to grow the fuck up and look at the bigger issues here. Give him a chance, we're all in this together and the state of America in the 21st century is way worse than I think people want to admit pre-Trump.
