IHouse Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The funding bill, passed by a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades. Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Marc Molinaro (N.Y.) voted against the bill, while Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) was recorded as voting for it.
Uncontrolled capitalism is going to kill us all. But at least the share holders will be pleased along the way.
I think about that same sentiment from this comic too often.
This isn’t capitalism, it’s anti-government and anti-governance.
With capitalism as the primary mover.
It’s cheaper for manufacturing if they don’t want to worry about toxic waste products. The desire for more profit is behind this.
Are there any communists countries handling their demand for energy vs environmental concerns better than the capitalistic ones?
It’s not an either-or situation. A good middle ground is a capitalist base with strong oversight. The same oversight they’re dismantling for profit.
Ok, I’m with you.
I’m not a communist because I think communism is a big failure.
So is deregulation and unfettered capitalism. It’s why every time we deregulate and cut taxes, the wealth gap gets wider, life gets shitter for everyone but the wealthiest, etc…
These are the same clowns who added most of the debt (Bush and Trump tax cuts) then complain about the debt when they’re no longer in power.
Gee it’s almost as pushing any idea of organization to its most extreme limit is doomed to break it 🤔 who could have seen this coming?
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Agreed.
Yes.
Which?
Finland, for one.
They’re obviously not communists, but somehow I have a feeling you’re the type of person who thinks they are.
You will say they’re not for this argument, but when it suits you, you’ll call them that at the drop of a hat.
I was being a butthole and suggesting capitalism isn’t the Boogeyman we’ve all been searching for all along. I like Finland.
There are no truly communist countries. There are state capitalist countries like China. But in terms of actual communism. The kind Karl Marx and his contemporaries envisioned. China is practically anti-communist. Also, if you’re looking for communist countries, you’re going to have a bad time. Communism is generally stateless and in the extremes even anti-state.
…China?
Ironically yes. I say ironically, because China is not communist. It is state capitalist. Previously 10 to 15 years ago it was not uncommon to see pictures of major urban centers largely obscured by toxic haze. Things have actually improved significantly since then. China rapidly freezing out a lot of the old polluting coal infrastructure and going all in on solar renewables and even nuclear. This doesn’t excuse or justify the brutal social repression enforced by the dictator and his party. But I mean compare that with the United States where micro dick in the house and his cronies past a bill. Gutting funding for the already underfunded EPA by almost another 50%. At least to a nominal extent on environmental issues and energy policy. China is actually trending forward. Whereas America is yearning to go backwards.
Fully agree.
I thought they were crazy for coal.
I think it is more too much centralization and a lack of governance which is even bad for capitalism as runaway capitalism sucks all the oxygen out of the air to everyone’s ultimate detriment even the billionaires.
Why do you think they want the government out of the way?
Capitalism is the cheat code to power. Who needs a government when you have unlimited money?
It’s both.
What happened to the conservatives that liked to preserve the environment for hunting, fishing, camping, etc?
I’m not sure we have Conservatives anymore, those that want to conserve things. I think perhaps they should be called Regressives, they that want to regress.
This is now what they will be called by me and anyone I can convince
Probably dead during covid or because that generation of people are dying off. Some religious folks might hold the rosy view that covid was the rapture.
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Damn I really want to see an Evangelical version of Midnight Mass where Covid is the Rapture now.
Fucking GOP is going to kill us all much more quickly. It sounds insane written out but it’s absolutely true
Why? If people want efficient cars they would buy them at high numbers. That would give an incentive for car makers to continue making more efficient cars.
Right now you have a bunch of crap iut there that people don’t want like electric cars
Another quote from the Journal of Rectally Sourced Statistics.
Trucks are heavily advertised over cars because selling a truck produces more profit.
Over time, those advertisements convince Americans that they need a F-150 4x4 EXTREME DUTY ULTRA RUGGED truck.
You know why. But congrats that you got that little ping of dopamine that you get when you “slightly annoy” or fuck with a couple dozen strangers on the internet. That sweet little hit.
But I also bet you get that second, likely smaller ping as well. That one doesn’t feel quite as nice, but you’re learning to push it to the back, not let it effect you. But it effects you. Every time it takes something away from you and you can feel it. Or at least you used to… until you let it die. And you can’t help but feel something else (your empathy perhaps) is gone with it. Forever.
Nice little post there Timmy. Did you feel good posting it? Can’t even refute what I wrote because you know I am right.
24 day old account, -792.
Don’t feed the troll.
Me? The fuck you mean -792?
Your account is four months. I was talking about pasta.
mmmm… pasta
What you should have said was nothing.
Hey everyone, thanks for attending our meeting on how to be more evil. We’ve got plenty of ideas to work on, but i think we should start with how we can better destroy the environment and earn some money while we do it.
It’s interesting how these “critical cuts” we need to make to the budget always come out of the enforcement agencies keeping track of the companies bribing them with campaign money.
We need to vote them all out next year and then again in the next midterm
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It’s important because it shows exactly what they stand for in legal writing. Yeah it won’t pass but it’s still good to note.
And the Dems better make sure the voters know about it instead of just focusing exclusively on the abortion issue over and over.
And if it managed to pass in the Senate, then it would likely be VOA (Vetoed On Arrival) on President Joe Biden’s desk.
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Because Mike Johnson isn’t in my district or anywhere near it. But I know my representative’s voting history, and that’s what matters. Local governance is very important.
I think it was the Conspirituality podcast (or maybe It Could Happen Here) that said, “The candidates that win are the ones that have the most charisma.”
Like you say, the public in general doesn’t care about policy stances; they care about how likeable the politicians are on camera.
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There is an election coming up soon.
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Democrats would rather pass a bad budget than go into shutdown.
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Democracy has been dead for the GOP. This is just authoritarianism in action under the guise of democracy. Fucking crooks.
What guise? I’m pretty sure the masks/hoods are off and it’s full on bigot spigot.
Smallest budget in 3 decades by dollar value, or inflation adjusted?
Something tells me if you account for inflation, it’s gonna be more than 3 decades.
The free market is going to kill us all.
They only have control of the house because too many people didn’t vote. Voter turnout was only 46% in 2022.
Something something drown it in a bathtub.
I approve of cutting 40% of each gop house member off and using the waste fat (there will be a lot) to heat my house through the winter.
Richard Nixon is rolling in his grave.
Ironic isn’t it?
Arooooo
This is a way to pass the buck to Biden for the government shutdown. He’s likely to veto that, if it even gets there.
It’ll never pass the Senate
The House is going to shut down the government and default on the debt.
The most terrifying words ever said are “I’m Republican and I’m here to help.”
Fuck you got mine. The cunts will all be dead long before they feel the serious impact. Big baby jesus knows they don’t give a flying fuck about anyone else, not even their fucking progeny.
That’s what we used to think but it’s already here and thanks to those corrupt swine, it’s only going to get worse faster as their owner donors ESCALATE rather than cut back, pretending that hypothetical carbon offsets erase real and immediate harm.
We gotta vote them out
