EPA

The EPA was once a necessary agency to lead in the fight to reduce environmental pollutants and protect the health of the nation. It is now an unregulated bureaucracy which is over stepping the purpose for which it was created, specifically to write and enforce regulations based on laws passed by Congress. Now it is being used to circumvent Congress to enact laws are politically motivated not environmentally sound.

For the Children....

Can't you see the snake oil salesmen?
If anybody markets any law, regulation or product as "for our children" or "to protect the children" it is enthusiastically embraced and supported. If anyone speaks out against such a product or proposal they must hate children, they want them to suffer.
Get real.
We all want the best for our children, and for children in general. You can't keep them safe by wrapping them in bubble plastic or isolating them from reality. You can't help them become healthy, happy, competent adults by pampering them or giving in to their every desire.
We need to teach them that:
There are winners and losers.
Winning is better.
Losing teaches us to try harder and to improve.
Teach them to be fair and honest, and that not everybody is.
Teach them:
That there are bad and dangerous people and things in the world.
How to avoid what should be avoided.
How to stand up to things that need to be challenged.
Not to follow anyone or anything blindly.
To keep and open mind.
To question things.
How to be self reliant, and to trust their own judgment.
And most importantly, teach them that all things must be earned.

....and lower standards for all.

By lowering the qualifications or abilities required of persons hired to perform a certain job, we are not creating more qualified personnel, rather we are hiring more unqualified people.

By forcing the Dayton Ohio police department to lower the testing standards for recruits, the federal government, specifically the DOJ, is forcing the city to hire unqualified or under qualified people as police officers. While this may fill the rosters, does it make the people of Dayton any more safe? I believe that it may actually create unsafe situations as the police work in high stress dangerous conditions.

I hope the DOE doesn’t lower the testing standards for power plant operators.

The report states that “It's a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.” Requiring the same testing of all applicants is equality. The decision by DOJ goes against the Supreme Court ruling on the case of New Haven, CT. Firefighters who were denied promotions because there were not enough minorities who passed the exam.

The only discrimination I see in this type of action is by the DOJ, who by forcing a lowering of testing standards is implying that minorities cannot meet the current requirements.

http://abc.daytonsnewssource.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wkef_vid_6103.shtml

Governor Malloy takes the easy way out and calls it “the tough decision”

After the latest Quinnipiac poll showed that 51% of voters disapprove of his budget "plan" Governor Dannel Malloy stated "this is why the past couple of governors refused to make the tough decisions that needed to be made: because tough decisions often aren’t popular ones."
Mr. Malloy, reaching deeper into the tax payers’ pockets is not making a tough decision. You are doing the easiest thing, giving same old big government response.
This budget proposal would increase spending by $900 million over the next two years. Reducing the amount by which you intended to increase spending, IS NOT cutting spending!
Make some substantive cuts to the bloated monstrosity of state government!
If you are interested in making some actual tough decisions and doing some genuine budget reform you might want to look at what Gov. Scott Walker is doing.

Hey Danny, POOR decisions are also often unpopular!