President Obama is going to allow several thousand Americans to die over the next year to appease the Insane Clown Congress and their Corporate masters. By postponing the ground-level ozone regulations to cut back on smog, he is allowing the deaths of literally thousands of Americans which, according to the World Health Organization, is a highly prevalent killer around the world and in urban areas of America.
A study released Aug. 17, 2008 stated:
"Scientists have long known that free radicals exist in the atmosphere. These atoms, molecules, and fragments of molecules are highly reactive and damage cells in the body. Free radicals form during the burning of fuels or in photochemical processes like those that form ozone."
Ground level ozone was the exact EPA regulations that President Obama put on hold, regulations that the preponderance of science on the matter agrees would have dropped it below dangerous thresholds. He opted to put them off for over a year, saying "I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover,” singing the same tune as GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who referred to the regulations as “job-killing.”
Interestingly, McClatchy Newspapers conducted a survey of mom-and-pop businesses regarding regulations and jobs. The result:
McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.
Their response was surprising.
None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it.
President Obama has bought into the pro-Corporate, anti-People lie that regulations cost the economy jobs, and by so doing, on something this important, his action will cost human lives over the next year or more until these regulations once again come up to be implemented.
EDIT: To be clear, these regulations were ready to be put into place by the EPA. Congress had no way to block or stop them. Stopping them was 100% Obama's doing and his choice. There was no other person who could have stopped these life-saving regulations from going into effect.
If you believe as I do, that President Obama needs to be awoken and pulled from the right-wing miasma that infects Washington DC, go to http://americachangestoday.com/ and support the one way we have left to us to hold him accountable, something he’s even asked us to do:
"What I'm asking you is to keep making your voices heard; to keep holding me accountable; to keep up the fight." - President Barack Obama, July 24, 2010
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