Jewish Democrats, like a good many other Democrats who believe that the United States must following a course of strength and determination in the face of terror and tyranny, must understand that no everyone who come under the banner of the Democratic Party is good for the interests of this nation or its allies, particularly, Israel.
This has become painfully evident in the previous eighteen months, as the Barack Obama Administration is the first in this nation’s history to supply a foreign terrorist entity with over 900 million dollars in aid, specifically to Hamas.
Hamas has a history of terrorist acts against Israel, and it is incredible that this country, under any circumstances, would provide an organization that on a day to day basis shoots rockets into Israel’s population centers to kill innocent Israeli civilians, regardless who those civilians might be.
Rockets do not discriminate between Jew and Arab, and this is what Hamas has been doing since it took control of the Gaza Strip.
Yet, this administration has provided Hamas with almost a billion tax payer funded money which this terrorist organization has used in funding its terrorist war against the people of Israel.
When the President of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House, Barack Obama excused himself from his presence, and went and had dinner by himself. Such a slight had never been made to a head of state before, and the act was not lost to those who follow US Middle East policy, particularly US policy towards Israel.
Many have already forgotten the statements made out of this White House last year that US Middle East policy would henceforth be one where Israeli interests no longer necessarily applied.
What’s more, people have also forgotten, what this writer and many others, including Sean Hannity and others warned about with regards to Obama’s pro-Muslim stance, specifically that Obama would abandon Israel and take a pro-active pro-Muslim stance at the cost of Israel’s interests and the interests of this country.
Now we are seeing senior high level administration officials requesting Hamas not to speak about their secret talks with them for fear that there will be a backlash from Jewish voters, “and other pressure groups in the US” as they put it. What is this all about? What are we seeing?
Well, as mentioned above, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and many others warned about Obama’s close associations with Rashid Khalidi, a pro-PLO radical professor, who mentored Obama on Middle East policy while he was a state senator in Illinois.
There were articles about this which this writer and a good many others cited, but they went on deaf ears. Nobody wanted to listen. Everybody was sick of George W. Bush, and they wanted “change.” They heard the rhetoric, were entranced by the deep melodic voice, and hypnotized right into the voting booth, giving the inexperienced pro-Muslim radical junior senator from Illinois the vote which propelled him into the White House and into the center of world power – the Oval Office. The rest is now history, and what a history it has been
Well, how are these voters now feeling about having contributed and given to a man such as Obama such power? Buyer’s remorse will not change the direction this country is headed, only making sure that such a man is not reelected, or elected again to any office, and that such men and women never get elected to public office again. To fail to do so will imperil this country, and its fragile alliances overseas, and bring upon US and our allies more terrorism, as our enemies sense weakness and vacillation, and as in cases such as where US Officials of this administration hold secret closed door meetings with terrorist groups such as Hamas, treason does not lie far behind. Beware.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
TIER 5 UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSIONS: THE FORGOTTEN 99ERS ARE THROWN UNDER A BUS BY THIS CONGRESS
It appears that perhaps ironically the only solution for help for the long term unemployed – the 99ers – in getting their Tier 5 Unemployment Benefits enacted is not through congressional means but by Presidential Executive Order. There are currently 31 million unemployed professionals in America, with hundreds of thousands more being added every month to that number. Of these there are those – the 99ers – those whom have been unemployed for over six months to three years, unable to find work in this “jobless recovery,” many of whom have exhausted all of their benefits (regular, EUI Tier 1-4, and Federal EB), and have faced the last three months without a lifeline to help pay with their bills and buy food, or even keep a roof over their heads.
Congress is out of touch with Main Street. Several congressmen on both sides of the isle have charged the long term unemployed with being slothful and unwilling to find work. Insulated from this economy by six figure salaries, paid vacation, and benefits up the wazoo, they have lost touch with the hardworking common man and woman who live paycheck to paycheck, pay taxes these politicians don’t, and who now face the loss of wages for being laid off or downsized by corporations moving their business overseas to save on overhead in taxes and regulations overseas markets don’t face. Thanks a lot guys. You over-regulate business, hike taxes for everyone, and then force a health care reform bill down everybody’s throats which you know will incur costs on everyone they don’t need or want at this time, and then expect businesses to grow and jobs not go overseas.
Then after you get your vaunted health care reform bill, you throw every constituent you claimed to be for under the bus by ignoring their plight and claiming that now you are fiscally conservative and want to save the taxpayers’ money. Then you insult US by overlooking President Obama’s taking two billion of our tax dollars and investing it in an off-shore deep water drilling scheme for a Brazilian oil company for which George Soros has invested a large sum of his capital with, while placing a six month moratorium on off shore drilling here at home. That’s just great to know that you and the president “are on our side.” Right.
The Labor Department reported that the number of new claims for unemployment compensation jumped to 472,000 last week, the highest figure in several months. In the two and a half weeks since the 1st of June, when the last extension expired, some 903,000 workers have seen their benefits cut off. By June 26, that number will top 1.2 million. The vote was taken under Senate rules, not to pass the legislation itself, but to “waive budgetary discipline” and allow passage by a simple majority rather than 60 votes out of 100. The result was 45 in favor and 52 against, with three senators absent. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had already abandoned an effort to adopt a cloture motion, closing debate, for lack of the necessary 60 votes. Three months ago a similar extension bill passed the Senate easily. This is an election year, and many in congress facing reelection are misreading the cries of average Americans, many of whom are involved with the T.E.A. Parties across the nation. The result is that a Democrat-controlled Congress that rushed through a $787 billion bailout of Wall Street in October 2008 in a matter of days, (much of which went to overseas private bank accounts of the nation’s most wealthy and connected persons) and authorized a further financial windfall to the banks and speculators five months later in the ARRA (Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), cannot bring itself to support even the smallest of subsistence for the unemployed workers who are the victims, not the perpetrators, of the current economic crisis the talking heads call a “jobless recovery.”
Our political leaders think that the calls for congress to rein in spending, to give the people a voice and a say by listening to them and not passing legislature to promote political agendas, include throwing the sick, the elderly, the unemployed, the long term unemployed, and the disabled under the bus. This includes liberal Democrats and Republicans as well as fiscal hawks within both parties. Again, these people do not know the mood of the American electorate. They have misread US. This is not what the T.E.A. Party is about. The American people want their government to cut spending, and stop hundreds of billions of tax dollars in foreign aid to questionable governments. This administration last year authorized almost a billion dollars to the terrorist HAMAS in Gaza, and is seeking hundreds of millions more this year. This while, there are thirty-one million Americans unemployed, and a congress unwilling to give them a life-line as they increase taxes on small businesses across the nation, and forcing them to add more to the rolls of the unemployed by laying more workers off in order to stay in business.
Oh, but the alphabet soup media and the virtual press on the Internet keep giving US the spin of all spins by telling US that we are in a recovery. Every other week, we hear or read stories written by “experts” who tell US that things are beginning to “Look up” even as more and more businesses close down, more and more people are laid off, and the stories of a looming depression around US, that we see, that we feel in our pockets, in shuttered businesses and empty lots all around US are seen more and more throughout areas that were once vibrant. There is something wrong with this picture. We are being told that things are beginning to get better, and they’re not. Everyone you talk to tells you the same story; things are not getting better, more and more people are losing their jobs, businesses are cutting back. And things like food and fuel, and goods and services costs more and more each day. You go to your local supermarket and this state of flux is all around you. One week the prices are at one level, a week later they’ve gone up. We’ve been told that times are getting better since the beginning of this year, but no matter how much they spin it, it’s not getting better and you and your neighbor know it.
It appears though that the media and the politicians do not. Remember the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was in his first term? We were coming out of a double digit inflationary Recession, and unemployment was just below ten per cent. Back then, the media were full of stories on unemployment, and everyone seemed obsessed by it. Every day they speculated whether it would spell the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency. On a daily basis we were spoon fed stories by the media – CBS, NBC, ABC, and the fledgling CNN on the rate of unemployment around the nation, and how unacceptable it was. Today we are seeing a tremendous difference between Washington's gut-level response to unemployment and the response back during the recession of 1983. Almost daily today we are being given skewed reports of how the economy is beginning to turn even though they are still bad, but not quite, because within these reports there are phrases which are placed in to provide the reader with the belief that even though things are bad and getting worse, these are but “hiccups” which are “slowing down the economic recovery” as though there were a recovery at all. There isn’t, and they know it, no matter how they spin it, they know they’re lying to you, and they know that you know it, but they don’t care, and neither do the politicians
Almost ten per cent unemployment was unacceptable back in 1983, why is it acceptable today? Why is the media giving this administration and this congress a pass this time around? The plight of the 99ers – those who have been unemployed more than six months, some as much as three years, is all but ignored by the alphabet soup media. It’s almost as though they do not exist. To the media the ten plus million 99ers are a non entity. The government doesn’t include them in their unemployment figures, so neither do they. And since this government has abandoned them, so has the media. The 99ers do not exist as far as this government and this media and this president is concerned. The shattered lives, the broken dreams, the loss of home, the destitution and hardship these people and many more is a forgotten statistic which is now discarded since these people have ceased to be. The media which were on top of such stories during Reagan’s first term is now silent under Obama’s. The obvious difference between the Reagan administration and today is the mainstream media -- they hated Reagan, whereas they will not criticize the Obama administration. Stories on employment have been incredibly few and far between, even skewed in many places. The Washington Times recently published a story titled, Unemployment Fell in 37 States, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/18/unemployment-falls-37-states-may/print/
. It’s as though the mass media and the “free” printed press in America have become an adjunct of this administration, dressing up the figures and spinning the news in order to put some lipstick and some perfume on this ugly stinking pig. But no matter how much they try to dress it up, it’s still an ugly, stinking pig.
.Regardless of how you and your neighbors feel, they politicians and the mass media believe that you can do precious little about it. Or so they think. All of the House and much of the Senate is up for reelection this year. This is where our strength lies. If they think that cutting off the unemployed and especially the long term unemployed – the 99ers – will placate angry Americans, they’re grossly mistaken. Fiscal conservatism has nothing to do with throwing needy Americans under the bus, it has more to do with wanting our elected representatives to stop profligate spending on unnecessary projects made with local machineries created to perpetuate political dynasties back home. It has to do with corruption, with runaway federal power, about the encroachment of an imperious presidency looming tyrannically over the futures of every American as it seeks to regulate, tax, impose its will, and exceed the limits the Constitution has placed on it. This is what it’s all about, and not about disregarding our needy here at home.
The fact remains that the poor, destitute, elderly, and infirmed, and yes, the long term unemployed; must not be political pawns for self-serving politicians to use in order to get their spending bills passed, and once passed, thrown under the bus as inconveniences for those who claimed previously to support their cause. This is the hard lesson which everyone needs to learn and learn well. Government cannot be trusted, and big government swallows those it considers inconveniences.________________________________________
Congress is out of touch with Main Street. Several congressmen on both sides of the isle have charged the long term unemployed with being slothful and unwilling to find work. Insulated from this economy by six figure salaries, paid vacation, and benefits up the wazoo, they have lost touch with the hardworking common man and woman who live paycheck to paycheck, pay taxes these politicians don’t, and who now face the loss of wages for being laid off or downsized by corporations moving their business overseas to save on overhead in taxes and regulations overseas markets don’t face. Thanks a lot guys. You over-regulate business, hike taxes for everyone, and then force a health care reform bill down everybody’s throats which you know will incur costs on everyone they don’t need or want at this time, and then expect businesses to grow and jobs not go overseas.
Then after you get your vaunted health care reform bill, you throw every constituent you claimed to be for under the bus by ignoring their plight and claiming that now you are fiscally conservative and want to save the taxpayers’ money. Then you insult US by overlooking President Obama’s taking two billion of our tax dollars and investing it in an off-shore deep water drilling scheme for a Brazilian oil company for which George Soros has invested a large sum of his capital with, while placing a six month moratorium on off shore drilling here at home. That’s just great to know that you and the president “are on our side.” Right.
The Labor Department reported that the number of new claims for unemployment compensation jumped to 472,000 last week, the highest figure in several months. In the two and a half weeks since the 1st of June, when the last extension expired, some 903,000 workers have seen their benefits cut off. By June 26, that number will top 1.2 million. The vote was taken under Senate rules, not to pass the legislation itself, but to “waive budgetary discipline” and allow passage by a simple majority rather than 60 votes out of 100. The result was 45 in favor and 52 against, with three senators absent. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had already abandoned an effort to adopt a cloture motion, closing debate, for lack of the necessary 60 votes. Three months ago a similar extension bill passed the Senate easily. This is an election year, and many in congress facing reelection are misreading the cries of average Americans, many of whom are involved with the T.E.A. Parties across the nation. The result is that a Democrat-controlled Congress that rushed through a $787 billion bailout of Wall Street in October 2008 in a matter of days, (much of which went to overseas private bank accounts of the nation’s most wealthy and connected persons) and authorized a further financial windfall to the banks and speculators five months later in the ARRA (Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), cannot bring itself to support even the smallest of subsistence for the unemployed workers who are the victims, not the perpetrators, of the current economic crisis the talking heads call a “jobless recovery.”
Our political leaders think that the calls for congress to rein in spending, to give the people a voice and a say by listening to them and not passing legislature to promote political agendas, include throwing the sick, the elderly, the unemployed, the long term unemployed, and the disabled under the bus. This includes liberal Democrats and Republicans as well as fiscal hawks within both parties. Again, these people do not know the mood of the American electorate. They have misread US. This is not what the T.E.A. Party is about. The American people want their government to cut spending, and stop hundreds of billions of tax dollars in foreign aid to questionable governments. This administration last year authorized almost a billion dollars to the terrorist HAMAS in Gaza, and is seeking hundreds of millions more this year. This while, there are thirty-one million Americans unemployed, and a congress unwilling to give them a life-line as they increase taxes on small businesses across the nation, and forcing them to add more to the rolls of the unemployed by laying more workers off in order to stay in business.
Oh, but the alphabet soup media and the virtual press on the Internet keep giving US the spin of all spins by telling US that we are in a recovery. Every other week, we hear or read stories written by “experts” who tell US that things are beginning to “Look up” even as more and more businesses close down, more and more people are laid off, and the stories of a looming depression around US, that we see, that we feel in our pockets, in shuttered businesses and empty lots all around US are seen more and more throughout areas that were once vibrant. There is something wrong with this picture. We are being told that things are beginning to get better, and they’re not. Everyone you talk to tells you the same story; things are not getting better, more and more people are losing their jobs, businesses are cutting back. And things like food and fuel, and goods and services costs more and more each day. You go to your local supermarket and this state of flux is all around you. One week the prices are at one level, a week later they’ve gone up. We’ve been told that times are getting better since the beginning of this year, but no matter how much they spin it, it’s not getting better and you and your neighbor know it.
It appears though that the media and the politicians do not. Remember the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was in his first term? We were coming out of a double digit inflationary Recession, and unemployment was just below ten per cent. Back then, the media were full of stories on unemployment, and everyone seemed obsessed by it. Every day they speculated whether it would spell the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency. On a daily basis we were spoon fed stories by the media – CBS, NBC, ABC, and the fledgling CNN on the rate of unemployment around the nation, and how unacceptable it was. Today we are seeing a tremendous difference between Washington's gut-level response to unemployment and the response back during the recession of 1983. Almost daily today we are being given skewed reports of how the economy is beginning to turn even though they are still bad, but not quite, because within these reports there are phrases which are placed in to provide the reader with the belief that even though things are bad and getting worse, these are but “hiccups” which are “slowing down the economic recovery” as though there were a recovery at all. There isn’t, and they know it, no matter how they spin it, they know they’re lying to you, and they know that you know it, but they don’t care, and neither do the politicians
Almost ten per cent unemployment was unacceptable back in 1983, why is it acceptable today? Why is the media giving this administration and this congress a pass this time around? The plight of the 99ers – those who have been unemployed more than six months, some as much as three years, is all but ignored by the alphabet soup media. It’s almost as though they do not exist. To the media the ten plus million 99ers are a non entity. The government doesn’t include them in their unemployment figures, so neither do they. And since this government has abandoned them, so has the media. The 99ers do not exist as far as this government and this media and this president is concerned. The shattered lives, the broken dreams, the loss of home, the destitution and hardship these people and many more is a forgotten statistic which is now discarded since these people have ceased to be. The media which were on top of such stories during Reagan’s first term is now silent under Obama’s. The obvious difference between the Reagan administration and today is the mainstream media -- they hated Reagan, whereas they will not criticize the Obama administration. Stories on employment have been incredibly few and far between, even skewed in many places. The Washington Times recently published a story titled, Unemployment Fell in 37 States, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/18/unemployment-falls-37-states-may/print/
. It’s as though the mass media and the “free” printed press in America have become an adjunct of this administration, dressing up the figures and spinning the news in order to put some lipstick and some perfume on this ugly stinking pig. But no matter how much they try to dress it up, it’s still an ugly, stinking pig.
.Regardless of how you and your neighbors feel, they politicians and the mass media believe that you can do precious little about it. Or so they think. All of the House and much of the Senate is up for reelection this year. This is where our strength lies. If they think that cutting off the unemployed and especially the long term unemployed – the 99ers – will placate angry Americans, they’re grossly mistaken. Fiscal conservatism has nothing to do with throwing needy Americans under the bus, it has more to do with wanting our elected representatives to stop profligate spending on unnecessary projects made with local machineries created to perpetuate political dynasties back home. It has to do with corruption, with runaway federal power, about the encroachment of an imperious presidency looming tyrannically over the futures of every American as it seeks to regulate, tax, impose its will, and exceed the limits the Constitution has placed on it. This is what it’s all about, and not about disregarding our needy here at home.
The fact remains that the poor, destitute, elderly, and infirmed, and yes, the long term unemployed; must not be political pawns for self-serving politicians to use in order to get their spending bills passed, and once passed, thrown under the bus as inconveniences for those who claimed previously to support their cause. This is the hard lesson which everyone needs to learn and learn well. Government cannot be trusted, and big government swallows those it considers inconveniences.________________________________________
Saturday, June 5, 2010
THE BROWN PELICAN
What explains the inexplicable behavior of this president in the face of multiple crisis? They’re trumped by Obama’s insatiable need to be popular, and his party’s obsession with politics. No party campaigns like the Democratic Party, and no machinery can hold the level of money and organization for political activism as the DNC. This has been evident since the days of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who by the nineties had established a far reaching network of support unlike any before it. Unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, the one which Barack Obama and his well monied elite benefactors dwarfed even what the Clintons were able to muster. Even some long time Clinton supporters like Governor Bill Richardson defected to Obama’s side at the end of the Democratic Primaries.
Thus the compelling motivation for Obama to campaign in the face of crisis. Rather than being the statesman that he promised he would be, he has made it quite evident that he is nothing but another Chicago Democrat Machinery Politician with no executive, business, foreign policy, or diplomatic experience to handle the responsibilities his office of Chief Executive demands of him. He barely had just begun his service as a US Senator when he launched his campaign for president, and because campaigning took all of the time he had left to serve in the Senate, he went into the White House with little or no experience for the office he was about to hold. We are seeing the evidence of that, regardless of the public relations campaign his administration and party allies feverishly make on his behalf every day. There is no question, Barack Hussein Obama is one of the finest public speakers to hold elected office, perhaps bested by the great and beloved President Ronald Reagan, but his ability to read speeches written for him on a teleprompter is not evidence of leadership, nor does it translate into effective government. Being able to speak well does not mean the same person is able to lead and manage. That comes with experience, and an ability to bring around oneself knowledgeable and experienced professionals whose counsel and leadership abilities can be put into action in implementing the president’s policies properly.
But when such people do not possess these abilities, but who like the president, are placed in such key and sensitive positions via the same kind of political machinery we see at play in various cities and states throughout the nation - are appointed to these positions by the president on the basis of their political allegiance and ideological proclivities, people whom have never owned a business, have never worked a day in their lives, with no affinity with the common man, and whose claim to fame to is run political campaigns, then what we have is the current fiasco in Washington, where we get more of the same as we did in the Clinton White House – where everything is a focus group, every day is a spin on the days events, every visit by the president is a photo opportunity, and every activity is a political campaign and public relations event tailored by the White House for use by a pliable media committed to present the president and his entourage in the most favorable light even in the face of more and more iconic incompetence.
The only word that can be used to describe the manner in which President Barack Obama has behaved during what is has turned out to be the most disastrous man-made disaster on the environment in history is astonishing, simply astonishing!
There are clear, safe, and natural solutions to resolve the current crisis, but they’re not being implemented by this White House, or by British Petroleum. The reason? Environmentalists. They hold the power over this administration and they call the shots over decisions made by them with regards to industry and the environment. They do not want these solutions to be put in place because it would resolve this disaster within days, and put an end to its destruction of the fragile eco-system of four states bordering the spill.
They are so trapped in their ideological political game of putting an end to the fossil fuels industry in this country that they are willing to destroy the environment to do it. How this administration has handled this crisis and the course it has chosen is part of a well planned tactic in using this crisis to bring a policy they’ve been wanting to implement for some time into place – the end of American off-shore drilling, or drilling period, just as they’re trying to bankrupt the coal industry through Cap and Trade, a high tax on the coal powered companies that supply the nation’s heating and electrical services – in short the very companies responsible for providing US with electricity and gas that power our electrical appliances and heat our homes and businesses. Obama made this clear in an interview he gave several years ago
Some blame ineptness, others say it is by design in order to regulate and nationalize the oil industry the way Auto Industry was nationalized, and Healthcare was nationalized; but whether it is a lack of leadership, dirty politics, incompetence, or by design; our natural resources, tourist and fishing industries and towns along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico should never be made the political pawns of any politician.
Now if only the politicians and technocrats would get out of the way and allow free enterprise to handle the situation, there would be a boon on the local economy, a boon on the businesses involved in the cleanup, and our fragile eco-system and beaches would be spared the disaster that doing nothing but blame, investigate, and prosecute for forty days has done in accomplishing absolutely nothing in resolving this disaster.
Thus the compelling motivation for Obama to campaign in the face of crisis. Rather than being the statesman that he promised he would be, he has made it quite evident that he is nothing but another Chicago Democrat Machinery Politician with no executive, business, foreign policy, or diplomatic experience to handle the responsibilities his office of Chief Executive demands of him. He barely had just begun his service as a US Senator when he launched his campaign for president, and because campaigning took all of the time he had left to serve in the Senate, he went into the White House with little or no experience for the office he was about to hold. We are seeing the evidence of that, regardless of the public relations campaign his administration and party allies feverishly make on his behalf every day. There is no question, Barack Hussein Obama is one of the finest public speakers to hold elected office, perhaps bested by the great and beloved President Ronald Reagan, but his ability to read speeches written for him on a teleprompter is not evidence of leadership, nor does it translate into effective government. Being able to speak well does not mean the same person is able to lead and manage. That comes with experience, and an ability to bring around oneself knowledgeable and experienced professionals whose counsel and leadership abilities can be put into action in implementing the president’s policies properly.
But when such people do not possess these abilities, but who like the president, are placed in such key and sensitive positions via the same kind of political machinery we see at play in various cities and states throughout the nation - are appointed to these positions by the president on the basis of their political allegiance and ideological proclivities, people whom have never owned a business, have never worked a day in their lives, with no affinity with the common man, and whose claim to fame to is run political campaigns, then what we have is the current fiasco in Washington, where we get more of the same as we did in the Clinton White House – where everything is a focus group, every day is a spin on the days events, every visit by the president is a photo opportunity, and every activity is a political campaign and public relations event tailored by the White House for use by a pliable media committed to present the president and his entourage in the most favorable light even in the face of more and more iconic incompetence.
The only word that can be used to describe the manner in which President Barack Obama has behaved during what is has turned out to be the most disastrous man-made disaster on the environment in history is astonishing, simply astonishing!
There are clear, safe, and natural solutions to resolve the current crisis, but they’re not being implemented by this White House, or by British Petroleum. The reason? Environmentalists. They hold the power over this administration and they call the shots over decisions made by them with regards to industry and the environment. They do not want these solutions to be put in place because it would resolve this disaster within days, and put an end to its destruction of the fragile eco-system of four states bordering the spill.
They are so trapped in their ideological political game of putting an end to the fossil fuels industry in this country that they are willing to destroy the environment to do it. How this administration has handled this crisis and the course it has chosen is part of a well planned tactic in using this crisis to bring a policy they’ve been wanting to implement for some time into place – the end of American off-shore drilling, or drilling period, just as they’re trying to bankrupt the coal industry through Cap and Trade, a high tax on the coal powered companies that supply the nation’s heating and electrical services – in short the very companies responsible for providing US with electricity and gas that power our electrical appliances and heat our homes and businesses. Obama made this clear in an interview he gave several years ago
Some blame ineptness, others say it is by design in order to regulate and nationalize the oil industry the way Auto Industry was nationalized, and Healthcare was nationalized; but whether it is a lack of leadership, dirty politics, incompetence, or by design; our natural resources, tourist and fishing industries and towns along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico should never be made the political pawns of any politician.
Now if only the politicians and technocrats would get out of the way and allow free enterprise to handle the situation, there would be a boon on the local economy, a boon on the businesses involved in the cleanup, and our fragile eco-system and beaches would be spared the disaster that doing nothing but blame, investigate, and prosecute for forty days has done in accomplishing absolutely nothing in resolving this disaster.
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