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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2697451" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>I think you are wrong on both counts but, frankly, that isn't relevant since I could argue easily that Nixon, while a foreign policy Hawk, was a domestic policy moderate (outside of law & order issues) or that he had no particular core principles on domestic policy except to use it to gain votes (hence wage and price controls, etc.). The EPA has grown enormously in scope and budget since it was formed. The real problem isn't the concept of wanting to have some mechanism for establishing clean air and water standards, it is the almost unchecked (at least without great difficulty) rule making power that Congress has granted to a quasi-Executive agency. Like any bureaucracy, the EPA, seeks additional self-perpetuating tasks and purposes. It is inevitable that each succeeding director and department head will seek to one-up the last by having more and/or more comprehensive regulations as well as seeking new areas to regulate in order to show progress in government terms. Thus we now have EPA rules that could easily have that one agency regulating every body of water in the US whether public or private and without regard to size or ecological importance.</p><p></p><p>The real danger is government run amok with few checks from the Executive or Legislative branch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2697451, member: 18914"] I think you are wrong on both counts but, frankly, that isn't relevant since I could argue easily that Nixon, while a foreign policy Hawk, was a domestic policy moderate (outside of law & order issues) or that he had no particular core principles on domestic policy except to use it to gain votes (hence wage and price controls, etc.). The EPA has grown enormously in scope and budget since it was formed. The real problem isn't the concept of wanting to have some mechanism for establishing clean air and water standards, it is the almost unchecked (at least without great difficulty) rule making power that Congress has granted to a quasi-Executive agency. Like any bureaucracy, the EPA, seeks additional self-perpetuating tasks and purposes. It is inevitable that each succeeding director and department head will seek to one-up the last by having more and/or more comprehensive regulations as well as seeking new areas to regulate in order to show progress in government terms. Thus we now have EPA rules that could easily have that one agency regulating every body of water in the US whether public or private and without regard to size or ecological importance. The real danger is government run amok with few checks from the Executive or Legislative branch. [/QUOTE]
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