why is it that many Americans have lost trust in the EPA?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1.- 9.11. the air is safe, trust us. We know that we are dealing with first responders who are VERY SICK because they hid the truth... Ironically both the Canadian and Mexican teams are having a lot less issues since they did NOT trust the EPA and kept wearing their respirators.

But that was a Republican...

2.- Fast forward to Corexit and the gulf and food is safe.

Now if the EPA explained the faustian choices... and did not tell us it was safe even after they told BP to stop using it (which they kept using) maybe it would be better. If they did not treat us as children maybe people would trust them a little more.

This is not about who is in charge. Governments have to maintain any population calm and at times... yes cynically, they tell you white and not so white lies. But once a people realizes this... people become very cynical and yes. lose the trust in a government agency.

[SidDithers]

1. "If they did not treat us as children maybe people would trust them a little more"...

Interesting.

Sid

[Codeine]

11. Physician,

heal thyself!

[xchrom]

2. because it's a mess? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yes, but truth goes a long way.

[old mark]

4. K&R- RWers hate them because they exemplify "Big Government"

interference with the free market...Lefties don't trust them because they seem to be working for big business much of the time...I guess it's pretty hard to be popular if you are a regulating agency...


mark

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It is hard when the regulating agency

gets too close to the bidnesses they are regulating. Incidentally this is also a problem in Japan... and sadly one of the results in that is what we have seen.

When you are not close and do your job, and well, tell the truth... at least one group will trust you a little more, the other will hate your guts even more

[Angry Dragon]

5. When lies are treated as the truth, then everyone loses

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yep, and this is what we have seen

over the last ten years or so, at least. So cynicism has taken over

[TheKentuckian]

8. Because it is a captured and toothless agency in conjunction with decades of corporate propaganda.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yep, but when people tell us that we should trust the EPA

I just gave two concrete examples

[RegieRocker]

10. It is costing them money!

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. BUT, BUT, BUT........the Democrats head the EPA now!

They're honest and would NEVER lie to us about toxins. :eyes: (as per a poster on some thread last night) *sigh*

Please explain this Corexit? What is it? Where's it from? and What's going on with it?

Just a short synopsis will suffice. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. I was told I had no idea how solvents work

this is technically a surfactant, but why quibble? That is why ignore is so great

[Obamanaut]

13. If the OP is suggesting that we should not be addressed in a condescending

way, then we have a breakthrough, especially if the OP reads the OP.

From the OP message block "If they did not treat us as children maybe people would trust them a little more."