No one is responsible when government agencies make mistakes, but they are quick to go after ordinary Americans who make such errors
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The federal bureaucracy is massive, expensive, all-powerful and completely unaccountable to the very public that funds it. A recent incident involving the Environmental Protection Agency is a classic example.
In recent days, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who is a life-long government bureaucrat like all top agency heads, told a Senate panel that the agency wasn’t responsible for a toxic spill involving millions of gallons of highly tainted water at the Gold Key Mine in Colorado in August. In fact, no one is.
“I’m not saying that the acts of the agency didn’t cause the accident,” she testified during a series of oversight hearings on the spill, according to the Washington Examiner. “But accidents by their very nature may not have resulted from any negligence whatsoever on the part of anybody.”
McCarthy made her comments during an often heated exchange between herself and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whose state was one of four affected by the spill, as he pressed her to explain who would take responsibility for it.
“You really believe that this spill could have [occurred] with no negligence on the part of anyone?” McCain asked.
“I believe we went in there with the state of Colorado… and all the experts agreed this was the next step to take,” McCarthy answered. “They made a judgment that you can see in our internal review… That judgment was obviously incorrect. But whether or not they did due diligence…”
“That’s almost classic,” McCain said, cutting her short. “You don’t believe someone is responsible for a decision that caused this kind of an incredible disaster, and could impact the lives of Native Americans for a long period of time?”
Classic indeed. Do ordinary Americans get a pass like this? Hardly.
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