The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to furlough all of its employees and shut down for three days this year to absorb sequestration’s spending cuts. But the sequester cuts do not have to lead to shutdowns.
The Heritage Foundation recently pointed out that prioritized cuts at the National Institutes of Health and Transportation Security Administration would target blatantly wasteful spending and unnecessary and duplicative programs. The same is true for the EPA.
Heritage has highlighted the EPA’s track record of wasting taxpayer dollars on projects ranging from the ineffective to the absurd in its Federal Spending by the Numbers 2012 report. For example, the EPA:
- Awarded a $141,450 grant under the Clean Air Act to fund a Chinese study on pig manure;
- Funded a $67,926 poster contest at just one college, Syracuse University, that yieldedfewer than 10 entries; and
- Gave $1.2 million to the United Nations for the “promotion” of so-called clean fuels.
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Oh, please, please shut down the EPA and send those deserving employees to a National Park for a rest. Not open? Aw, gee. Maybe there's a place closer, that hasn't been shut down because of the dangers of second-hand smoke. I'm sure there's something out there to titillate and amuse those over-exercised minds.
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