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Subscribe to RSSIn Herman Cain's new TV ad in Iowa, the campaign presents farmers talking about the fear that the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to regulate farm dust.
"The EPA wants to regulate dust on farmers," says one farmer in the ad. "You can't plow a field without dust. My dog makes dust."
But the EPA has been regulating "particulate matter," which includes dust, since 1971, when the Clean Air Act was passed. The agency proposed tightening restrictions on "particulate matter," but there is no new regulation going into effect.
The non-partisan FactCheck.org wrote the following on Sept. 23 after Cain made the claim at the Fox Orlando debate that the EPA had "gone wild" and was set to put in place the "new" regulation Jan. 1, 2012:
"The EPA is required by the Clean Air Act to periodically review the scientific information available on particulate matter to determine if changes are needed to the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Particulate Matter. That substance, which includes soil and dust particles, is considered to be a risk to public health, according to the EPA.
"Earlier this year, the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards released a report with its final recommendation that the agency move to tighten the restrictions on particulate matter that are currently in place. But the panel’s recommendations have been met with much opposition from farmers who say that increased regulations could hurt their industry. And several members of Congress have introduced legislation to block any attempt at implementing stricter limits.
"But, so far, the EPA has not decided to take any particular action on the panel’s recommendations.
"During congressional testimony back in March, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that it was a 'mischaracterization' to claim that the 'EPA is attempting to expand regulation of dust from farms,' saying that the agency had 'no plans to do so.' Jackson had said that she would make a final determination this past July on what the EPA would do, but has yet to do so."
Politifact Georgia also wrote:
"The EPA has been regulating large particulate matter, including dust, for four decades, but does not single out farm dust or require monitoring in more rural areas."
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You have to check this out!
Grab some *popcorn*
I'm no fan of Mike Tyson but he nails Hermie in this Funny or Die video;
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4ecfd3a85f/herman-cains-campaign-promises-with-mike-tyson
In Herman Cain's new TV ad in Iowa, the campaign presents farmers talking about the fear that the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to regulate farm dust.
Yeah! Let's keep talking about one small point of an agency that keeps us from having turds in our water. That proposal has been taken totally out of context!
No matter how you show Herman Cain. We are getting tired and sick of seeing him already. Who wants this moron for President?
Hermie made news today calling Pelosi, Princess Nancy. Not that she don't deserve it, but scoop is he tried to mess with her tidies and she shut him down.
Emil
Felonious Monk is better. Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmZ9zH-mYM&noredirect=1
Feisty that link was great i'm so tired of the Cain train I'd like to hear some responsable adults in some kind of debate but I guess that won't happen any time soon at least soon enought to save whats left of this country! On the post I know we need the EPA the corps. wont clean up after themselves with out oversight.
Feisty--I'll see your popcorn and raise you brownies! How does the TPGOP come up with all this ludicrous nonsense? One might think it's creativity, but I certainly wouldn't want to assign attributes they are trying to squash in others...
When Gloria Allred gets done with Herman Monster..........he will have a mountain of True Claims to dust off
Bravo and revel on Gloria Allred!!!
Noted female conservative commentator defending the republican field: "All the candidates have their little pecadillos."
Cain response: "I can assure you my pecadillo is not small. Now how about dinner, princess?"
Perry response: "The American people understand that I'm an imbecile. But they understand that it's an understandably common human trait amongst us."
New polls. Cain coming out on top. Im becoming a Cain for President man. We need a black man for a change and he happens to be the best candidate.
AverageAmerican - We are all hoping for Cain to wil the GOP nomination. Even us democrats. Trust me when I say, it isn't the Democrats who are attacking Cain. We really, honestly want him on the ballot next November.
Average stop listening to the democrats here, Cain is further behind Obama than Romney in the polls and that gap isn't closing. They want an easy target and they are sitting with far more incriminating information about the Koch brothers and their brother from another mother Cain. He could bring the biggest win in history to Obama he is so dirty.
Jan...If the Republican nominee isnt Cain, Paul, or Bachman; a third of conservatives will either stay home, vote for a minor party nominee, or write someone in. We have no shot without one of those three. Conservatives are done with moderate Republicans.
But Bachmann is so, so far down in the polls...
So that leaves Cain, Paul, or a Bachmann miracle. If not we get Obama again.
Just this morning, I listened to an NPR article about an 80 year old cement factory surrounded by a town of 9,000. An extremely high number of residents have cancer and the cement plant throws out 500 pounds of mercury per year into the atmosphere. Coincidence - I think not!
Yet we hear clamoring to get rid of the EPA and that over-regulation is killing jobs. Ever think that de-regulation will kill people - or does that not matter so much? With the consensus growing that we are experiencing climate change, we need to be very, very careful
Its called the downside of deregulation, the government is no longer there to protect American from whatever corporations want to do to the land. Just like deregulating the banks eventually led to the mortgage crisis it offered a short term economic boom, don't be sucked in by short term false promises. These guys are being paid big money to sell themselves out and sacrifice America.
Belfast: There is MONEY to be made. The rest is incidental.
Living in Iowa, the EPA has no plans to regulate "dust" by itself. This is just another tactic used by the GOP to scare farmers and demomize the EPA. What many people like Cain fail to realize is that farm "dust" is often filled with chemical particulates--pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers. These chemical particulates are in the air we breathe and also pollute the streams and rivers. Ask New Orleans about the impact of farm chemicals in the Mississippi when it reaches the Gulf. Farming kicks up dust, a car driving down a gravel road kicks up dust, a car driving on my own paved street kicks up small amounts of dust. The dust is not the health problem, it is what is in the dust that is.
Cain supporters....worried yet?
It's not dust, it's the Koch-Cain connection.....and Herman's groping at thighs to change the subject.
A candidate that doesn't know what the truth is is one you really don't want in office.Herman Cain fills that bill admiralbly.
It's hard to work at being consistenly dishonest but he tries hard.
You're f**king kidding with that headline, right? What moron wrote "Dust's" off, as in "Cain dust is off campaign"??? Do you outsource your proofreading to f**king China???
STAY IN SCHOOL, MORONS!!!
And please take that invasive, out-of-place apostrophe and shove it up the ass of the editor who missed this.
What other lies has Cain sited??????????
Cain is one of the biggest clown running for President
and Republicans/Tea Party love cheaters, and liars
they have no family values, here Cain shows his Dristan of Women last night
Yes indeed the Republicans have no values at all
Cain is just a KOCH Brothers puppet. Time for the KOCH Brothers to get another puppet since Perry is going down in flames also Two down and how many to go Next Walker
And who is the current President's puppet master....it is a question I have been asking for some time. And the Republicans have no lock on moral bankruptcy...let us not forget former President Clinton, with Paula Jones, Monica Lewinski and others...or the wonderous philandering of Ted Kennedy that even implicated him in manslaughter. FDR was noted for his "relationship" with Missy Hand (ironic name isn't it?) Mr Obama has taken more from the big wigs on Wallstreet than any other presidential candidate before him, while telling us all in his road tour that they are evil (I am amazed that they still support him as his public denunciation of big business is ever present) And you know, Lyndon Johnson, author of the Great Society and the War on Poverty was no saint or paragon of virtue either... We also have the notorious affairs of both John F and Robert Kennedy. A scad of representatives, senators, governors in the Democratic ranks who have had to come out, so to speak, and admit to their affairs outside of marriage....Who can forget all the junior high jokes about the Wiener situation. Please stop painting all Republicans as evil and all Democrats as saints. If the Democrats are saints and angels....then God needs to do some serious house cleaning.