Pres. Obama's Windmills

The following is from an associate:

     Even to the casual observer it must be obvious that we do not have a president but instead a modern day Don Quixote - a man of La Mancha. It takes little genius to identify the "windmills".

    Here is a short list of the "windmills"  that Obama and his administration are tilting with.  Unfortunately, these exercises are expensive at a time when the single most important issue facing our country is the federal debt and federal deficit spending.

1.  The Department of Agriculture has proposed a rule requiring meat packers to label their products with the source of the meat; namely, where was the animal slaughtered?  I don't know how important that information is to you, but it has never occurred to me to raise the question.

2.  The EPA has issued a rule requiring that petroleum refiners reduce the sulfur content of motor fuels. You realize that sulfur dioxide is water soluble and, when it rains, the atmosphere is scrubbed.  You may remember "acid rain"; that is, the rain containing dissolved sulfur dioxide was acidifying fresh water lakes to the detriment of aquatic life and killing trees.  Mysteriously, the problem disappeared.  However, this time, the EPA is stating that removing sulfur from motor fuel will save 20,000 lives year - people with asthma and other breathing problems. Who knows the source of their claim, but consider this:  When it rains, the atmosphere is scrubbed of sulfur dioxide.  There are regions that receive little rainfall.  They are called deserts.  Not too many people live there.

3. We are now being told that the number of children suffering from lead poisoning is increasing. There have been two important sources of lead in the environment;  tetra ethyl lead in gasoline and lead carbonate as a pigment in paint.  The use of tetra ethyl lead in gasoline was discontinued in the 1960s and lead carbonate has not been used in paint since the 1970s.  Who knows what new protection our bureaucrats have in store for us?

There are many more.