Chronicle of a Fiasco Foretold
7th May 2015
Steve Sailer can’t resist saying ‘I told you so’.
Remember when in 2002 George W. Bush and Teddy Kennedy got together and hammered out federal legislation mandating that every public school student in America test above average by 2014?
Hey, I just remembered, it’s 2015 now. Did the No Child Left Behind law work?
Similarly, in 2005, the Los Angeles School Board decreed that by 2017 every student in Los Angeles must rank in the top third.
And whatever happened with that War on Poverty thing? Have we gotten rid of poor people yet?
May 7th, 2015 at 09:48
The Clean Air Act of 1970 directed that the entire nation meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards by 1975.
No, I’m not kidding.
The CAA Amendments of 1977 and 1990 failed to do that as well. (Hey, who needs science when you have Congress!) The 1990 Amendments did leave a loophole that’s being exploited to add Greenhouse Gas regulations. Yeah, there’s no law on GHG; it’s all EPA edicts.
Remember the Ghost of Christmas Present in Dicken’s Christmas Carol? It’s as if he pulls back his robe and says, “Look! He is Jalen Helm and she is Regulation by Edict. Fear them both but fear her most!”
May 8th, 2015 at 04:04
I’ve always said that the EPA is one of the reasons Nixon will burn in Hell for all eternity.