Obama Informs Boehner He’s Considering 7 New Government Regulations, Each Would Drain Economy By Over $1 Billion Year…
One of the EPA rules alone could cost the U.S. economy up to $90 billion, and these are the administration’s numbers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration is considering seven new government regulations that would cost the economy more than $1 billion each a year, a tally Republicans will pounce on to argue that Congress needs the power to approve costly government rules.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Obama lists four proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules and three Department of Transportation rules estimated to cost in excess of $1 billion. One of the proposed EPA rules — an update to the health-based standard for smog — is estimated to cost the economy between $19 billion and $90 billion.
The letter, dated Tuesday, comes as the Republican-controlled House prepares to consider legislation that would require congressional approval for any new regulations that would impose a significant cost on industries.
The four environmental regulations, which target air pollution and coal residue primarily from coal-fired power plants, have already been attacked by House Republicans, who have said they would kill jobs and harm the economy.
A federal court ordered the Obama administration to propose two of the four environmental rules.
And while the regulations would be expensive to comply with, EPA officials say they will save billions of dollars in avoided health care costs each year by reducing asthma and other illnesses, such as cancer. In some cases, the cost savings are greater than the upfront expense, according to EPA figures.
Obama’s letter was in response to a Boehner request last week for more details from the president on the proposed costs of the most expensive regulations under consideration by his administration. Obama’s administration has identified 219 proposed regulations this year with a cost to the economy of more than $100 million.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, at 3:25 pm | 
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This focusing like a laser stuff is killing us. The only thing this a hole knows how to do is put a strangle hold on jobs and the economy.
More job creation…?
I dare someone to say that this man isn’t purposely killing the economy.
“You want to f*ck with one of my vacation days….ok jack here comes the scorched earth………burn baby burn and who’s your daddy……….”
I dub it “Quadrupling Down on Stupid”
Hey EPA show us the Effing bodies.
Please go back on vacation!!! Please go away!!!
Can someone please stuff a sock in this bastards face!
He is burning the citizens to the ground before the election. If he steals the election, look for him to take control of all oil, natural gas and coal. Then watch them drill baby drill. Now exactly where are those FEMA camps located? Indpls has one with barbed wire turned inward. Prison for the TEA party people? Who are the TEA party people? A thought is illegal? Pray America, and pray hard.
Here we go again! This angry guy won’t stop pimping his
socialist swill. He needs a THUMPING in Nov. 2012 following
a miserably painful spring and summer in which Americans
totally tune out on his bombastic oratory.
American nightmare.
There is NO GLOBAL WARMING except in the minds of AL GORE and the wacktards from GREENPEACE and the only O-Zone hole is in the heads of the wackos and JAMES HANSEN
It won’t cost the energy companies a dime, but that $90 billion is correct. Of course, that’s $90 billion *per year* that will show up on the power bills of every American household. You figure 120 million households, that’s $750 added to your power bill every year, or $60 a month.
Hey, that would double everyone’s power bill. Gosh, that seems like a great idea in the middle of the 100% Democrat caused depression.
A federal court ordered the Obama administration to propose two of the four environmental rules.
The courts can’t do this. If this doesn’t tell you this agency needs abolished as soon as we get a legitimate American president, I don’t know what will. John Boehner better start doing his job, or he is going to be kicked to the curb.
He’s going to face a public humiliation unlike one you’ve never seen before in a presidential election. He knows he’s going to lose so he’s determined to do as much damage as possible before then. I want the candidate who says they will shut this Department down by executive order. Wasn’t it started by executive order by Nixon? If so, it needs to die the same way. Enough. We’re not here to keep them employed.
Um, was this the jobs bill he promised would come after his vacation?
Now we know his new jobs plan.
Any reason they can invent to “protect us from ourselves” will be tried.
Our well being doesn’t concern them at all. All they want is an excuse to expand government further.
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All these new precedents set by the Liberal left WILL BE USED to harass them relentlessly after 2013.
All these programs that they think are being set in stone, will all be turned off with the stroke of a pen in 2013. They’re not just risking the new policies they have created. The anger they’ve stirred up will motivate people to reexamine decades worth of Progressive change.
The Liberal left could be out of power for the next 12 years as a result.
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Is he trying to give that microphone head or what? WTF?
Where in Hades do you find pictures like this of Obuttma? Bet his mouth assumes that shape on a regular basis if you get my meaning. So often that it probably is an involuntary reflex when he is around his pals Reggie “Spoons” Love and Kal Peen.
He and his legion of new agencies have added over 800 NEW regulations in the year 2011 alone.
Atlas is Shrugging.
He is trying to destroy this country there is NO question about it-this is just pure suicide for America
He needs to go NOW
evil little troll
If this pans out to be true and I am sure it will. Then we definitely need to remove him and all his supporters from the Government permanently. He has syphilis of the Brain from the down-lo he does and is insane.
Can’t even play stupid no more he is nuts and unfit for the Office.
Is congress going to bend over and take it like they did when the debt ceiling was raised?
You bet they will
“…a tally Republicans will pounce on to argue that Congress needs the power to approve costly government rules.”
This kind of stuff burns me up. Who were the assholes who gave away their Constitutional authority to write laws and regulations….oh who was it…hmmmm…oh yeah, CONGRESS!
He’s not hiding his agenda anymore, he’s openly destroying what’s left of the US economy. What did the people of the US do to him to deserve such cruelty? I mean he’s sucked the tit of the public purse his entire career does he really think he can go back to being a community organizer once he’s destroyed the US financially?
Looks like he’s dreaming of Reggie Love there in the pic.. Can we get that man a corn dog to go?
People dangerous to the country must be removed. Start investigations now!
Move over Bill Nye.
Obama has his head so far up his ass it’s a miracle he hasn’t turned himself inside out.
RTS
I guess we live in a dictatorship now, eh? WTF ever happened to checks and balances and the Constitution? This situation is getting dangerous now. We still have a lot more time left in his term. With all his executive orders, etc. I’m not sure this country will last until 2012.
Ya know iffin I ran a bunch of coal powered plants I’d shut them all down fer havin to fix sumptin fer a full month. Unannounced! Phuck em, turn it off and tell em to go green, today!
Obama’s Rx for the economy: destroy 1+ million jobs in the private sector by imposing Federal regulations that will require the hiring of 100,000 new Federal employees to enforce compliance. His economic plan is solely focused on new jobs. Lost jobs don’t count, because they’re mainly held by white folks.