The EPA to Add 230,000 Jobs; Spend $21 Billion Per Year!
September 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM Leave a comment
It’s a story too good to be true for the anti-Obama and anti-regulation crowd: The hated Environmental Protection Agency is looking to spend $21 billion per year to hire an additional 230,000 people to enforce greenhouse gas regulations.
One problem: It’s not true.
Patient zero for this story is The Daily Caller, which on Monday wrote that the EPA is “asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats — at a cost of $21 billion — to attempt to implement the rules.”
To put that to scale: EPA currently has 17,000 employees at an annual budget of $8.7 billion.
“Much of what is said or written about EPA these days is entirely inaccurate — but The Daily Caller’s report is comically wrong,” EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan told POLITICO. “At least one job clearly needs to be created: They’re clearly in the market for a fact-checker.”
It’s amazing how gullible right wingers are. The Daily Caller was founded by Tucker Carlson, a right wing nut job for God’s sake.
Wake up people.
Geezus.
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