Michael Ramirez for June 14, 2011

Google “China pollution” then tell me that’s the world you want to live in.

States have their own environmental agencies you know. Who do you trust, your state agency or the Feds? Relatively speaking of course.

Road to hell is paved with good intentions. While some regulation is essential, and EPA has done some good work in the past, its most recent efforts tantamount to unadulterated and unconstitutional power-grab. An unelected apparatchik has more power than all state Governors . . . . . . that is sick!!!

Your name calling lacks the usual vigor today. Are you under the weather?

ACID said, “Buy American when ever possible.”

That’s like saying hunt polar bear whenever possible. American products are very rare. The only things made in America now a days are GUNS! And I’ve already got a GLOCK.

Yeah, who needs clean water and air.Hey, it’s working for China…

Heh, guess you guys don’t realize that the EPA is a house that Nixon built (along with OSHA) He was one of those Hateful Republicans, wasn’t he?

If the Repubs want to scare us all, then the Demos want to control everything. Can’t say I’m too keen on either.

I like breathing air. I’ve been to areas of Thailand where emission standards and sewage standards were poor. Made me appreciate the EPA.

Bachmannturd in overdrive. The music sucks as bad as the corporate destruction of not just the environment, but PEOPLE, before the EPA. Bachmann has only one tune, “down with EPA”— she’s an idiot. (Makes Paleface Palin look brilliant by comparison.)

Interesting that NEPA, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act were NIXON signed laws to protect not just Americans, but the planet , from runaway destruction for profit. Reagan and Watt tried to reverse that trend, and succeeded.

“Wall Street”, and “greed is good” isn’t Gordon Gekko, but Bachmann and the entire right-wing list of cranially deficient “candidates”. There is nothing wrong with legitimate business, and profit, achieved through a properly regulated theater of operations.

What Ramirez and Bachmann are calling for is pure anarchy in support of a group of assassins, period.

He also believed in buy American.

Darkfarce is the same predictable twit with the same predictable idiotic rhetoric he used to spew on the old Comics.com site. BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did ANY of you happen to look at the cartoon before you blew up in fury? I think that it has a good message. We should protect the environment, but we must also eat. We have to try to find a balance that works.Darkforce, you should see a psych. You are more scary than Charles Manson ever was.Grant – who bailed on Nixon? Nobody I ever met. You also should switch to decaf. Relax. Life is good.

It’s not just Walmart that imports from China. Target branded goods are also made there as well as many other retail chains. I look for the country of manufacture on most things I buy and always choose American made when I have a choice. BTW, I am a liberal and I drive an American made car.

“Sam Walton was a devout Republican.” And he trumpeted the value of buying American made goods. When he was still alive, my local Walmart always had a display in front of the store of American made products.

so the libs want regulations with no limits…hmmm, sounds like the soviet union to me, & what happened to them? I think the USA is pretty clean compared to 20 years ago, but I credit consumers who demanded it, not gov’t. I think we should relax a little on the USA & make other countries catch up to us in environmentalism before we keep ratcheting our standards higher. Any environmentalists want to volunteer to help other countries catch up?

I guess we just blame the EPA for our air and water being too clean and our cars and planes being too safe. Our food must be too clean as well, since the government bans testing for mad cow disease (how good is that!).

UMMM, no. The EPA just spouts regulations that people and corporations find loopholes in. Consumers are ultimately the ones that need to continue demanding cleaner environments…a simple example, iPod Vs 33 inch Vinyls…which is better for our environment? You have to accept that EDUCATION is the best answer to our problems, not regulations.

I drive a “pre-owned” Dodge. It’s practical and suits my needs. My mother, a moderate liberal, drives a fairly new Toyota. It gets good gas milage and was made (or at least assembled) in America.

Can anyone name one single job that was cost by the EPA? Thought not. Thanks, EPA, for saving the lives of the innocent, protecting future generations, while cleaning the Earth and creating many, many useful and reasonably well-paying jobs.

Unlike a LOT of American companies, Toyota employes American workers. They created jobs in this country while other companies were shipping jobs to China. Where ever the profits eventually end up and regardless of Japanese fishing practices, the fact remains that Toyota created American jobs.

…and if you feel strongly about the Toyota/Whale connection, go protest on all the Toyota lots. Get groups of people across the country to protest Toyota…they in turn will put pressure on their country people to stop whaling…The power of THE PEOPLE is more powerful than the epa. @ARodney as for the epa costing jobs, see “http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/06/09/aep-opposes-proposed-epa-rules.html” Proposed EPA rules could cost 600 jobs, increase customer bills for recent news, or how about typing in “EPA Admits Jobs Don’t Matter” in YouTube…should I go on? I can direct you to a few books that cover this issue. Bureaucrats didn’t clean the environment; people did. I’ve been to many “clean the seashore”, “clean the River” and “trail upkeep” work groups as a volunteer, and I don’t recall anyone being from the EPA. In fact, another agency, OSHA made us do some things that cut our volunteer work force in half…but that is another “Great” government entity.

@Jase, It’s times like this I hate to agree with the union line, but I do. I work with the UAW every day, and things really have been getting better for a while now. I do believe it was competition with the foreign non-union transplants that got us here. But your absolutely right. Buying from Japan Inc. supports Japan Inc., and in the end we are Americans, damn it.

There is not one clean river or stream in the United States. Miners in W. Virgina are leveling mountains into valleys and the GOP screams how over regulated we are They also still believe in “Trickle Down”

Not to mention the new Toyotas are F-UGLY.

Just bought a pair of shoes today. Union or not, it’s d@mn hard to get a decent pair in my size U S A made.

no, I don’t think we’all should have a free for all. I am pointing out that the regulators of the EPA need to find a balance. If we overregulate ourselves, other countries will have the advantage and we’all will destroy the environment with the poverty over-regulation brings.

asaid,bigger hypocrites than liberal democrats – yup, you don’t have to look far to find neo-conservative republicans – the biggest hypocrites of them all.