Government has one role, in my opinion, to protect it's citizens. Arguably, the EPA protects more people than any other government agency. People we love will suffer from cutting the EPA (or eliminating it, as most conservative presidential candidates have proposed: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/meet-the-new-pollution-friendly-gop.php) .
EPA cuts:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/environment/epa-budget-cuts-put-states-in-bind/2011/06/08/AGbVpYdH_story.html
"Indian Head, Md., won’t get the nearly $1 million it has requested to improve sewer lines and rehabilitate manhole covers. Wyandotte County, Kan., has suspended its hazardous-waste public awareness programs. And Virginia will scale back the studies it is conducting to evaluate nitrogen runoff into the Chesapeake Bay."
Feel safer?
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