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Wingnut Outrage of the Week: The EPA's "$21B Expansion"

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Achilles Tang9/28/2011 4:12:48 pm PDT

re: #75 wrenchwench

I don’t have time to read the non-existent links anyway. My pushback is motivated by what looks like callous indifference on your part to things like this:

Children of construction workers may be at risk for excessive lead exposure. Health care providers should assess parental occupation as a possible pathway for lead exposure of young children.

That’s from a link provided by Renaissance_Man.

That is hardly conclusive. It could just as easily mean that, some, construction workers, in NJ, have poor domestic hygiene, or that they live in old neighborhoods with known lead paint hazards for children, or that they are fly by night construction workers without licensed businesses and solid education in what they do.

I am not callous and you are not nice to suggest so, but we cannot afford to regulate safety to the n’th degree. Common sense must apply sometimes and as I suggested, I think that simple safety pamphlet printing would be just as effective as onerous regulation, and cost us much less.