The reduction of lead levels in our air, is not a question of good or bad, we know it is good. The question is what should government do with limited resources. Continuing evaluating the air quality for lead, or instead use those resources for other work. What a department can do is not infinite, there is a limit to the resources it receives. Thus a good department head will determine where those resources can be best used.

Instead of crying gloom and doom, one should ask what will the department spend these saved resources upon, and will that benefit more people. Everyone likes to place on a pedestal the plight of the poor, and how government should help them, but when government decides to refocus efforts and redistribute its resources, immediately we hear the calls of gloom and doom, just like the heading of this topic.

Their concern for the poor is so noble when it comes to taking money from the rich, yet they never exactly tell us who is the rich. But when government instead tries to act like everyone else in the world, making decisions regarding the best use of limited resources, their true concern becomes apparent......and its not for the poor.

dmk