https://padlet.com/jasf7875/971ty1zty9iw English III Final en-us 2017-05-03 20:32:05 UTC 2017-05-18 21:16:16 UTC hello@padlet.com jasf7875 https://padlet.com/jasf7875/971ty1zty9iw/wish/169795045 by Jason Francis

The environment is always around and no one can get rid of it, but the U.S. could be destroyed without good defense. The money that is cut from the EPA budget will be spent on building up the U.S. defenses. We as humans have already destroyed the environment by making landfills and cutting down trees, why spend the money to protect what we have already destroyed? For the sake of this great country and all the people who live here we must remove money from the environmental protection and put it into something strong such as the United States MIlitary. How we prepare our country as a whole for a war is more important than what we do for the environment. 

Bringing money out of the EPA funding and into the defense fund, can and will improve living in America. Lets protect home in a useful way to society.

This is an order by the president that would cut funding of the Environmental Protection Agency. Instead the funds would go to defense and give coal miners and company extra cash. Trump was quoted in saying "We're ending the theft of American prosperity and rebuilding our beloved country." (The Washington Post) The signing will rebuke all of Obama's environmental efforts as well.

The order will make deep cuts to the budget. The staff will be reduced by one-fifth in the first year as well as eliminating dozens of other programs. Juliet Eliperin says "The administration's 2018 budget blueprint will prioritize rebuilding the military..." We as Americans must let them follow through with this order. By not interfering with this order, we will put an extra 2.1 billion dollars of funding into our defensive budget. This largely increase our chances at military victory over the enemy. 

To insure that a this order goes through we show support on a full level. We as americans can help save this country by supporting the cuts made to the EPA and agree to give those funds to our military.

Although I am for these budget cuts we must not get rid of the EPA entirely. The Environmental Protection Agency  does what they can to keep this country clean and green. "Over its life, the agency has stopped leaky petroleum tanks from polluting the public drinking water supply, improved air quality by curbing the release of acid gases and other pollutants and worked to keep builders from destroying wetlands or low-lying areas that filter toxins from the water and act as sponges to reduce flooding."(tampabay.com) This company is developing new cleaner energy sources that could be useful. So lets not count them out.

The U.S. is in danger of war so we must take funds out and put funds into other programs to keep America strong. We must cut the budget of the EPA and instead fund the military. We must let the government sign this order and make America's military great again.

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The EPA has been around for quite some time and now due congress and our president Trump, the EPA is now under budget cut due to an executive order to cut off the EPA and most likely to dismantle the EPA. It is our calling as a stand to keep the EPA healthy and lively. Without the EPA say goodbye to the once livey world we all know and love called earth.

Our planet as we know it is dieing and there is lie that can cover that. If you were to go on the internet and look up the conditions of the earth the state of which it is at is very poor and soon will be almost inhabitable for humans to live on. That is why we need the EPA to protect the earth and keep it alive and well because our planet is the only one we have and if we make mistakes and treat the planet wrong then we will suffer with the earth and burn down with it.

From ars Technica's article, KIlling the Clean Power plan leaves Trump's EPA in an Awkward Place, by John Timmer,"Trump's executive order rather than getting rid of clean power, only directs the EPA to begin the process of doing so." Trump is specifically targeting the EPA because he believes that the EPA have no purpose more or less better as the dirt they protect, meaning they are nothing in his eyes. needles to say Trump does not give any peace of mind for the earth and the people just want to protect the earth because there cause is helping the planet for the better. The job of the EPA did have meaning now thanks to Trump that is now lost.

Even the people that worked at the EPA feel like nothing because Trump is soon to cut the EPA and turn down the science that keeps the earth functioning. " Nearly 800 former employes at the EPA have signed a letter to congress demanding an end to the Trump administrations efforts to extinguish US climate policy and leadership." From the article by the Hill even from this section of the article it clearly makes it point across that Trump cares not the so much for the environment and for the EPA that he is willing to cut ends with EPA just for more safety but is it worth to cut our EPA.

Even though it seems that all hope is lost for the EPA to ever recover from this, there is way to save the EPA, it is called the Clean Air Act. This act allows scientific investigation on the environment to see how well it is doing. meaning the EPA has to give data on the climate and depending on the situation the government has to do something about it and can not set aside the situation if it becomes a major problem. Meaning that there has to be an EPA in order for this Act Will keep a vast portion of the EPA. 

On the other hand by keeping the EPA means funding and spending, meaning a huge loss of protecting americans, improving military defences and preventing war. Although the EPA protect the planet they do not protect the people living on it.  Juliet Eliperin says "The administration's 2018 budget blueprint will prioritize rebuilding the military..." This is exactly the willpower that america needs in order for our country to stand strong and protect the americans that live in the United States. also  from The Washington Post "We're ending the theft of American prosperity and rebuilding our beloved country." Even this makes the point that our country military defences are weak and need to improve making america great again for the better of the people who stand strong with our country. 

Overall the EPA purpose is to protect the planet and keep it alive for as long as possible and due to the fact that Trump is cutting the EPA's budget and the staff that they have. We must stand opposed of the government signing the order to cut the EPA's budget and keep the planet green. 

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Military Spending: Why It Should Grow.
The cartoon given below shows that the EPA budget should be cut so that we could put more spending into the military budget. The cartoon below depicts a tank made out of money which in some context can be taken negatively but it has more benefits to it. The reason the tank is made out of money is to show that the military needs funding to be able to defend the people with more equipment i.e. tanks and other weaponry. This is the main reason why Donald Trump cut funding to the EPA, so that he could put more money into military spending.

EPA Budget: Why It Should Stay
The cartoon given below depicts two children standing in a field with a very bad pollution in the area being made from factories nearby. One of the children proceeds to say "They gave EPA money to the Pentagon for our protection." which shows the irony in Trump taking EPA funding for the military. Granted, the funding will be used to improve the military and improve our militaristic inventory, but the EPA needs funding because of the issues that they help solve and some possibly prevent. The EPA helps to regulate pollution in the air, keeps water reservoirs clean, and helps other potential environmental disasters. The EPA needs the funding to be able to help incase of environmental disasters such as an oil spill, and say power plant explosions which the EPA would have a harder time cleaning without a larger budget.

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