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Lucylastic -> RE: I can't eat an IPAD (10/14/2011 8:01:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet
As much as we bitch about the Chinese in this country, we are sure willing to buy their products, not to mention borrow their money. If you don't like it, don't buy products manufactured there. The fact is, the American "job creators" were the ones who drove (Walmart) or took (virtually all manufacturing companies) manufacturing overseas. So tell me again why they should get tax breaks?
YES:)
But its ok to vote in a law that could poison thousands of americans, because well its just not worth the cost to be safe
WASHINGTON -- Less than an hour after passing the so-called Protect Life Act to guard the unborn, the House of Representatives passed a bill that the EPA warns will kill thousands of people prematurely.
House Republicans argued that the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 was a "timeout" from long-delayed regulations aimed at mercury that threatened to raise costs on boiler operators and incinerators. But the measure also exempts smaller burning facilities from any regulation at all.
The EPA estimated that the bill, H.R. 2550, would allow 20,000 people to die prematurely from pollution.
But for the GOP, preserving the jobs was more important.
“The House Republican jobs agenda is focused on removing the uncertainty hampering small businesses through policies that promote private sector growth," said House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.). "Small businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups are the engine of job creation in America, and Washington should not be working to make it more costly and more difficult for them to do business."
He added that the proposed boiler regulations "could raise compliance costs, take away billions of dollars in capital annually and put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk."
The National Republican Congressional Committee immediately began campaigning on the vote, attacking Democrats who opposed the bill, saying they voted to "endanger over 300,000 American jobs." The committee's press release cited a report prepared for the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners.
It's just the latest in an ongoing assault on the EPA that as of last week had prompted 159 anti-environmental regulation votes on the House floor this year. The House passed a measure last week to relax proposed regulations on cement kilns, which the EPA says will lead to 12,500 premature deaths.
Environmental groups and Democrats were livid over the 272 to 142 vote, which they said will allow smaller incinerators -- often in urban settings -- to burn tires, solvents, plastics, oil sludge and other toxic-laden substances for profit without any oversight or reporting requirements.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/house-passes-incinerator-bill-epa_n_1010044.html
but as long as they take away the health insurance away from the workers who deal with the kilns, it will all just be fine.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
fuck the air, fuck their lungs, fuck acid rain and pollution, I want to be able to burn what I want when I want it
and kill my emplyees.
What a wonderful world
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