It is sad that to think that the E.P.A was actually started by a republican President, Nixon, and the current crop of GOP candidates want to gut a republican legacy. I want a strong agency to safeguard our air, water and soil. I don’t think anyone can convince me that corporations will ever take the initiative on their own to safeguard our environment. It interferes with their bottom-line, plain and simple. It also doesn’t make sense economically. It will cost us as a nation more in the long term if pollutants and chemical runoff in our waters make our people sick with cancer or other preventable disease. Prevention is more cost effective than cleaning up environmental hazards and sicknesses after the fact. Someone should challenge these candidates with that question and see what their responses would be, I’d be curious to see.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
GOP Presidential Candidates At Odds Even With Tea Party On EPA Hatred
20 Saturday Aug 2011
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