The Issue: The economic fallout from new EPA rules that could force coal-fired power plants to close.
At a time when people are desperate for employment, President Obama brags about job creation while assigning his EPA director to create restrictions resulting in staggering job losses in the coal-mining and electric-utility industries and even higher costs for the consumer (“The EPA’s Giant Green Jobs-Killer,” Post-Opinion, Michael A. Walsh, Aug. 22).
That’s hypocrisy.
And where are the objections to these job losses from the form-erly strong coal-miners union?
John W. Fox
Galloway, NJ
Green jobs plus a green president equals a depression.
Otis Glazebrook
East Hampton
When President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency to “repay the debt to the past,” did he mean that we should impose standards so onerous that electric rates could skyrocket by 23 percent?
Was the idea to put even more Americans out of work, as even more private-sector jobs are sent to “dirty” coal-burning China and only a handful of government “green” jobs are implemented at an obscenely wasteful cost?
Democrats may call the Tea Party members ideologues, but there is no balance in EPA chief Lisa Jackson’s position.
She’s a zealot on a mission with no regard for its impoverishing consequences.
Ray Arroyo
Westwood, NJ
What does Walsh propose we do about the government’s plan to shut down power plants, which would raise utility rates and unemployment?
This is a particularly virulent form of government meddling that could not come at a worse time.
If we insist that this not be foisted upon us, how do we get citizens involved immediately to put a stop to it?
We need to stop these fits of demagoguery before Jackson and the Obama administration damage the economy and our children’s futures any more than they already have.
Michael K. Walsh
Melville