My friend's wife works for the EPA.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

She was describing an absolute mad rush and scramble in the run-up to inauguration to try and get all pending regulations finished and approved because the fear was everything would be gutted once the Madman took over.

Sounds as though they had real cause for concern.

[Warpy]

1. They did, still do

Trump is a Molotov cocktail hurled into the heart of government. That's why fools voted for him.

Because he was persuaded to install Goldman Sachs to run the economy (as they have for decades), the plutocracy has been lulled into a sense of security while Trump obliterates all the parts of government that protected the people against the powerful.

Even fools are going to start to wake up as the government functions less and less in their favor.

This is not going to end well.

[wordpix]

4. wealthy folks, wake up, poor relatives are coming for you when ACA is repealed

When due to my pre-existing condition I lost my health insurance---around the time I was diagnosed with St. 4 cancer---- I contemplated the cost of an expensive surgery, hospital stay, chemo and followup care out of pocket. My choice was bankruptcy to pay for everything or go to wealthy relatives and ask them to bail me out.

Then along came the ACA. Thank you, Pres. Obama! You and the Dem Congress saved my life, literally and financially.

[world wide wally]

13. Putins assignment for Trump is to bring America down from the inside

[Angry Dragon]

2. Trump is just running the country like he runs his business

They wanted a HUGE and GREAT business man




Run the country like a business they said but they forget that the people are the customers

[Thor_MN]

6. In general, Trump runs his businesses into the ground.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. Now Trump needs to be run into the ground.

and out of office.

[Angry Dragon]

21. but not before he sucks out all the money he can

that is what he did with his casinos
heard he walked away with at $645 million and left the investors holding the left over shit

[TeamPooka]

8. They asked a businessman who is famous for saying 'You're Fired!' to run the country like he does

his businesses that declare bankruptcy every few years.
What did they think they were going to get?
suckers

[wordpix]

3. "get rid of regulations" mostly means environmental, maybe OSHA

[sarcasmo]

5. I would be surprised if the EPA was around in 2020. The madman has scary plans.

[Useless in FL]

7. Yes

It looks like they're going to be gutting away....and we won't be informed unless someone ignores the in the EPA ignores the blackout and leaks the info... The pipelines are getting a green light

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

15. They all need to ignore the blackout

It's time to dust off my 1969 anti-government tactics manual.
We have the numbers and it's time to leave our comfort zones and resist.
Like someone once said "We all came here in different boats, but we're all in the same boat now."

[Fantastic Anarchist]

18. The Government needs to fear the People ...

... like it does in France.

Here, we fear the Government, which is an abysmal way to be.

[disalitervisum]

9. what about this gag order for employees

of EPA and HHS? Shouldn't that be some kind of story? Or am I missing something.

[SunSeeker]

11. Oh it's a big deal. It means some really horrible shit is about to go down.

And Trump doesn’t want anyone talking about it.

[SunSeeker]

10. EPA will soon exist for no other reason than to issue NPDES permits and similar ok's to polluters.

That's assuming the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act do not get repealed. If the GOP repeals those Acts as "budensome regulations," prepare for our cities to look like Beijing and our countryside to look like an oil field.

[Stellar]

14. Oh I hope that they were all finished and approved!

Oh please, please, please...

[elmac]

16. EPA, FDA, DOE,USDE

all gone by 2020, SS, medicaid, medicaid, unemployment insurance all gone by 2024.

[Raine1967]

17. Have a friend at the EPA, Same with her. She's

considering early retirement.

[Cha]

20. Of course!