What is telling about these pictures is the number of them in which the industry and business present in the 70's are literally out of the picture now, driven overseas by the EPA and the Left, along with the good paying industrial jobs that secured the personal and economic freedom of America and Americans. And 40 years later we are still "out of gas" thanks to the EPA.

These pictures portray not envirmental progress, but the gutting of America's manufactureing base and of the middle class.

Just think of all the jobs putting out river fires shutting down the EPA would create.

And people would stop living so darned long, which would help Social Security.

Industrial deaths instead of annoying injuries. Better for Medicare.

And we could go back to REAL cars which get 6 MPG, needs a few quarts of oil every fill up, and have sharp objects all over the dash.

I could go on forever with all the wonderful possibilities.

I would also wonder why we continue to use fluoride in the public water supply.

Fluoridation is UNNECESSARY because:

1) Children can have perfectly good teeth without being exposed to fluoride.
2) The promoters (CDC, 1999, 2001) admit that the benefits are topical not systemic, so fluoridated toothpaste, which is universally available, is a more rational approach to delivering fluoride to the target organ (teeth) while minimizing exposure to the rest of the body.
3) The vast majority of western Europe has rejected water fluoridation, but has been equally successful as the US, if not more so, in tackling tooth decay.
4) If fluoride was necessary for strong teeth one would expect to find it in breast milk, but the level there is 0.01 ppm , which is 100 times LESS than in fluoridated tap water (IOM, 1997).
5) Children in non-fluoridated communities are already getting the so-called "optimal" doses from other sources (Heller et al, 1997). In fact, many are already being over-exposed to fluoride.

Actually this is a major initiative of both Federal and State EPA organizations. Non-point source waste entering the ground water is a real problem. The problem is because it is non-point source it is difficult to put in place corrective measures. Some initiatives such as minimizing open range grazing will cut down on manure entering water tables. Eliminating lead from gasoline; the creation of hazardous waste disposal sites; etc. There is a lot being done, but a lot more could be done. And it is most definitely being talked about. There are entire industry scientific journals devoted to this topic.

Please do your research.

Well, there's two ways of looking at this. In most of the pics I agree things look a helluva lot better than before. However, I wonder if the pics from the 70s is what China looks like today, and the EPA is one reason we've lost so many jobs to them. I'm just saying there's two ways of looking at this, not that one is better than the other.

So what would happen if there were no EPA? anyone want to go back to that time in the pictures? Anyone here old enough to remember the Ohio River being on fire? Thats right, a river on fire!!

you know i read, "rebublicans, democrats, liberals , right wings, blah blah blah and everyone seems to blame the sh#@ we live in on the politicians. From my expierience as a long time employer as a manger in the rest. business i see more of what i think is the problem. Firstly let me say im in no way an expert on the problems in which we all face today. hell i quit my first day of high school cause i was all about making money, and my parents let me quit. huge mistake obviously. But as and employer ive struggled over the last 20 years finding people who want to work. Hell my som included collected unemployment for over a year cause he just didnt feel like working. Ive hired people who at the time even cried they were so desperate for work but 2 or 3 months later they have the attitude like i owed them for coming to work. The problem we have is half the people out of work dont really want a job, they rather sit back and let the government take care of them. Theres too much giving away and not enough erning your way. And our government has dummed down our children with riddilin and other medications that there hardley more then walkin zombies. Kinda fits right into there plan i would say, a stupid population is much less likely to see whats going on then an educated and non-drugged one. kinda funny we dont some drugs yet the most dangerous ones, i.e. opiates are handed out as redilly as A.D.D meds to our children. So untill we all wake up and make our governmant and our citizens responsible for there actions, or in most cases in-actions then well continue to spiral downward untill we become the Nation our for-fathers were petrified we would become. Sorry for the rant, bad night lol, god bless us all. we need it!!!

Seems to be the common rant is that we have less jobs. But we have more jobs! Just less inner city folk willing to pick cabbages and shovel manure. (We have more illegals.)

Wow! On some many different levels!!

Most of u don't understand free trade, its not free trade when China or Mexico ships goods to the USA free of any duty but our goods to them are taxed, and their company's are subsidised by their gov.

You cant build a strong economy on min. wages, American workers are the most productive workers in the world but u wont get them for $7.25 an hr its not a living wage. when ceos are making 50 million 100 million a year and the guy or gal doing the work is making $14000.00 a year do u really think they feel like giving 100% give them a wage with dignity.

Return to the days of old when raw sewage was pumped into our lakes, rivers and streams and toxic chemicals poisoned our air, land and water; vote Republican.

When your hero's are the NRA and TED NUGENT you have hit bottom