EPA Tells Kids to Avoid Baths and Asks Them to Check Toilets For Leaks

Breitbart:
by JUSTIN HASKINS11 Apr 2015

Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA’s WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.

“To save even more water, keep your shower under five minutes long—try timing yourself with a clock next time you hop in!” the “WaterSense for Kids” website says.

In addition to convincing kids to stay away from the tub, the EPA’s website instructs children to be careful not to give plants or the yard too much water, to ask parents to use car washes that recycle used water, and to avoid using hoses whenever possible. The EPA even suggests kids conduct experiments with parents to test toilets for leaks.

When kids aren’t busy timing their showers to ensure they remain as unclean as possible and training to be future plumbers, they can “test” their “water sense” by playing EPA’s Pac-Man-inspired online game starring the “water-efficiency hero,” Flo. The goal of the game is to move Flo, a cartoon water drop, “through water pipes and answer water-efficiency questions while avoiding water-wasting monsters.”

There’s nothing kids hate more than those darn water-wasting monsters.

You can add this pathetic attempt by the EPA to brainwash kids into feeling guilty every single time they flush the toilet to the long list of ridiculous efforts the federal agency has made recently to control every aspect of Americans’ lives.

In February, the EPA announced it had serious concerns over the expansion of the Keystone Pipeline, a project projected to create thousands of jobs. “Construction of the pipeline is projected to change the economics of oil sands development and result in increased oil sands production, and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions, over what would otherwise occur,” the EPA said.

Citing EPA’s findings, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have finally approved the pipeline expansion in late February.

In March, it was revealed the EPA provided a $15,000 grant to the University of Tulsa to develop a device that could “modify” hotel guests’ behavior by monitoring shower times and water use, adding a whole new creepy dimension to the concept of “big brother.”

The EPA has a responsibility to ensure the United States’ environment is not absolutely destroyed by human development, and it’s reasonable to say all Americans have a legitimate right to ask its government to protect certain lands, waterways, and natural resources from abuse. But the EPA has consistently gone far beyond what’s reasonable, entering into a realm of regulation development that attempts to bring the nation back to the 17th century.

For instance, the EPA recommends businesses consider installing “composting toilets,”which are just as disgusting as they sound, to save the maximum amount of water.

Teaching our children to conserve nature is important, but unreasonable and unsanitary mandates from bureaucrats in Washington, DC—who, by the way, expel countless tons of carbon dioxide in their behemoth urban office buildings—hinder economic and cultural growth and mislead impressionable kids into believing it’s a grave sin to take a bath or wash the family car with a garden hose.

Justin Haskins (Jhaskins@heartland.org) is the editor of The Heartland Institute, a leading free-market think tank headquartered in Chicago and the editor-in-chief of theNew Revere Daily-Press. Opinions are his own.

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Thank You Mr Haskins and Breitbart.

"You can add this pathetic attempt by the EPA to brainwash kids into feeling guilty every single time they flush the toilet to the long list of ridiculous efforts the federal agency has made recently to control every aspect of Americans’ lives."

NIMH, Dateline 2011:

don't bother trying the next link. After we reposted it in 2011, someone did some URL moving so the numbers wouldn't look so blatantly bought and paid for ridiculous.

Politics and Political Diseases.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml#Intro

Mental Disorders in America

"Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2 Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada.3 Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. Nearly half (45 percent) of those with any mental disorder meet criteria for 2 or more disorders, with severity strongly related to comorbidity.1

In the U.S., mental disorders are diagnosed based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV).4"

This is the US Federal Dept of Political Diseases, the NIMH.

26.2% IN ANY GIVEN YEAR.

They Claim that only 6% suffer from 'serious mental illness'.

Any 'Mental Illness' is a Bureaucratic Gateway into being manufactured into a 'Serious Mental Illness'. 

Unlike the Industry's Govt. Division, our backlinks on this blog work.

Here's what treating a non-serious mental illness as well as a serious mental illness entails, with no successes, ever.

Violence (16)

Neuroleptics/Antipsychotics Cause Violence

And the Winner IS: (Italic Emphasis is In the original)

"People who are classified as SMI i.e. with schizophrenia or bipolar often experience violent incidents following a diagnosis of SMI, even though they don’t consume alcohol or use street drugs, nor having a past history of violence or command hallucinations to harm others."

Yes, you read that Right. The violence erupts Following the Diagnosis, from people Without a previous history of violence.

Observations in prison have also associated neuroleptic treatment with increased aggressive behaviour. Inmates were better able to control their aggression until they were prescribed neuroleptics and then the aggression rate almost tripled.¹²

Akathisia (6)

Suicide (24)

The Drugs Don't Work (14)

Community Treatment Orders (3)

Child Psychiatry (27)

Here's a pdf of many links to older drug research. 

Science For Sale: The ... - Dark Pharma

And that doesn't scratch the surface of this con.

Should The Govt. Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole? and Adverse Reactions To Psychiatric Drugs: Dr Yolanda Lucire

And speaking of Govt. URL housekeeping, the same "Uhh, Those links don't go there anymore" happened after we linked to the FDA's Antipsychotic labels. 

Mental Health: Comes With Free Sudden Death


But you should make your kids feel guilty for taking a bath, because, . . . Climate Change, . . . EPA.

26.2% of America is Nutz, but these EPA Bureaucrats are the geniuses we should obey blindly and without question.