Socialism has consequences.....
Posted on 06/29/2010 9:24:18 AM PDT by rhema
It's one thing to say that Obama's Administration showed its ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf oil spill. It is quite another to grasp the situation up close as I did during a recent visit to Alabama.
According to state disaster relief officials, Alabama conceived a plan — early on — to erect huge booms off shore to shield the approximately 200 miles of their state's coastline from oil. Rather than install the relatively light and shallow booms in use elsewhere, the state (with assistance from the Coast Guard) canvassed the world and located enough huge, heavy booms — some weighing tons and seven meters high — to guard their coast.
So, Alabama decided on a backup plan. It would buy snare booms to catch the oil as it began to wash up on the beaches.
But the Fish and Wildlife Administration vetoed the plan saying it would endanger sea turtles that nest on the beaches.
So, Alabama — ever resourceful — decided to hire 400 workers to patrol the beaches in person scooping up oil that had washed ashore.
But OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Agency) refused to allow them to work more than twenty minutes out of every hour and required an hour long break after forty minutes of work so the cleanup proceeded at a very slow pace.
The short answer is that every agency — each with its own particular bureaucratic agenda — was able to veto each aspect of any plan to fight the spill with the unintended consequence that nothing stopped the oil from destroying hundreds of miles of wetlands, habitats, beaches, fisheries, and recreational facilities.
Where was the president? Why did he not intervene in these and countless other bureaucratic controversies to force a focus on the oil, not
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It’s called divide and conquer.
The blame game is getting tiresome.
he is bungling nothing....its all part of his plan to destroy American and make it New Kenya.
The blame game is getting tiresome.
?? blame ?? don’t underestimate the thugs from Chitown... they planned the FAIL in order to punish the economy and people of the states that went Repub last time and will not help solve the problem by design. All off shore drilling will go to Soros’ Brazilian investments and the Gulf oil will be brought in by the Cubans/Chinese while our drillers will be out of work... just a little global redistribution of wealth to pay off the campaign contributors. That’s the Chicago way....
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Their title for this article ought to be “WHY” instead of “how”. The why is to justify cramming the Crap and Traitor tax bill down our throats. To ensure we’re 3rd world for good...
Bump. This is the best Dick Morris article in months. What the Feds have done here is horrifying, insanely bureaucratic, completely lacking in common sense or leadership — and it is going to severly hurt or in some cases wipe out 5 state’s economies. It’s the freaking dust bowl on top of the Great Depression.
He has to force us into green energy against our will.He said so prior to the last presidential election.
Incompetence maximus....but hey, according to idiotAxelrod, they show ‘competence’ in handling the ........ Swine Flu alleged global epidemic.....=.=
Obama hasn’t bungled the oil spill.
It is progressing exactly as he planned.
He needed a crisis and we have one.
"...the state (with assistance from the Coast Guard) canvassed the world and located enough huge, heavy booms — some weighing tons and seven meters high — to guard their coast.
So, Alabama decided on a backup plan. It would buy snare booms to catch the oil as it began to wash up on the beaches."
If the CG was OK with it - why didn't they use the seven meter booms?
They don't say why a backup plan had to be employed.
In 5 years a trip to an Obmahospital will be in a hearse instead of an ambulance.
Take a crisis, exacerbate it, then enact draconian laws to implement massive societal control.
Its called the Gestapobama Grab!!!
Socialism has consequences.....
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“It’s the freaking dust bowl on top of the Great Depression.”
He is holding the South’s economy and ours for hostage until we submit (Islam means that, you know) to his green agenda. This will also force a huge Depression on us, until we are severely displaced and living in hovels like his African relatives.
Then, ‘his’ people, whoever they are, can take over. Meanwhile, he and his cabal & underlings will get rich off Cap ‘n Tax.
This is intentional.
Hope and change?
No. Hopelessness and destruction.
Not to Dick Morris:
NObama cannot ‘intervene’ in the countless bureacratic controversies.....
NObama instigated each & every of these blockades.
Note to Dick Morris:
NObama cannot ‘intervene’ in the countless bureacratic controversies.....
NObama instigated each & every of these blockades.
Note to Dick Morris:
NObama cannot ‘intervene’ in the countless bureacratic controversies.....
NObama instigated each & every of these blockades.
The only thing bungled is some people awareness..
Some people are as stupid as they want to be..
They refuse to face the fact they actually elected a flaming Marxist..
WOrse; others elected Bush that made it possible for a Marxist to get elected..
With; Bush and Obama BOTH being Progressives..
By flaming I mean with horns, red suit, a dagger tail and everything..
America is pretty much eye rolling, drooling and making disgusting guttral sounds..
America has soiled its shorts.. with..... well you know...
Actually - it was at least 17 countries ignored by Pres_ _ent Obama.
I’m not sure, but it seems like I read somewhere that the feds came and took them away - ostensibly to use ‘elsewhere’.
classical cluster f!
absolutely true. In his NWO speech he says that one country can't be more powerful than any other. His puppet masters want us to be a third world socialist rathole
“I’m not sure, but it seems like I read somewhere that the feds came and took them away - ostensibly to use ‘elsewhere’.”
Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh?
It’s so nice to see my fellow Freepers not falling for the “bungling” president line that’s being sold to us.
On the up side, I was just telling my hubby last night that this might just come back to bite the administration in the butt. It took a crisis like this to show many people the reality of our federal government bureaucracy and especially the ridiculous environmental laws it enforces.
Perhaps this will finally be the straw that breaks the public’s back in terms of excessive regulations and all they do to hold back this country from reaching its true potential (in addition to putting roadblocks on the path to recovery from a crisis like this).
Obamugabe drove golf balls while the gulf spewed tarballs................
The seven foot booms would harm the sea turtles trying to get to the beach to lay their eggs in the oil soaked sands....................
This IS what the president could have done to minimize the effects of the oil spill. But OBAMA FAILED.
American ingenuity will save us. That and God
The list, ping
Imagine having to rely upon these a$$hats for your health care?
This is not to say that you'd care for the original laws either, but the regulations have strayed so far that the "anti-dumping zone" law has now been interpreted to prohibit the use of porta-poties in boats ~ thereby forcing small boaters to plop it down over the sides ~ just like before.
No doubt the law that forms the basis for protecting the sea turtles is well intentioned, but the regulation being enforced by EPA and the Coast Guard is being used to KILL the sea turtles ~ clearly that was not the Congressional intention several decades back.
Whether Obama can intervene or not he could, at a minimum, ask for the personnel involved in killing sea turtles to be fired and taken to court if possible. The people using the anti-dumping zone law to prevent the use of oil skimmer technology should simply be taken out and hanged.
The States have got to start suing the Federal Government, collectively.
“Obama putted while the Gulf was gutted”
or,
“Obama plays while the Gulf decays”
UNINTENDED? Who are they trying to kid. The intendended consequences were obtained with the help of the alphabet federal agencies.
It is the faux Negro-descendant-ofslaves Soetoro’s ultimate revenge on the South which is why I believe plans to evacuate the Gulf Coast are likely real and serious.
It’s not as if the turtles aren’t laying eggs all up & down the east coast.
Since when did the rights of turtles to lay eggs on an oil soaked beach outweigh the rights of people?
I do not understand why the Governors of LA, AL, & Miss (forget Charlie) haven’t allied themselves with each other and stand up to the feds. (I know—I am an armchair supervisor) They need to do what they need to do & let the chips fall where they may. It’s time for a Constitutional Crisis to remind them the federal government is of the people, not OVER the people.
Yes.
Hussein will be responsible for killing the seafood, tourism and recovering real estate markets along the Gulf coast. Without seafood, fishing and with oil covered beaches, coastal Florida is a worthless, smelly, humid wasteland.
What did anyone expect?
Obama’s non actions after the spill define perfectly what so many of us, and even Hillary! for that matter believed about the man.
One hell of a chance the American people took with putting “DeepWater” Hussein in the WH.
Certainly didn’t cover himself with glory in dealing with, managing and resolving this particular “Man Made Contingency Disaster”, did he.
More so than you might think. They can talk about everything he's bungled till they're blue in the face and it seems to fall on deafened ears. It's as if his critics can't be heard for the din of his critics.
As an American raised by Jewish parents, I find it bitterly ironic that Jewish World Review published an article describing the socialism mandated debacle caused in large part thanks to the regs and laws and Agencies/AgencyPersons who exist in due to Jewish efforts over the last four generations.
The destruction of the Gulf Coast is the least of the Obamatrocities.
He basically just hung up the phone and went back to sleep w/ a grin on his face.
If that reality could be gotten into the public conciseness, either with graphics and or a time-line of events, perhaps more people will realize just who and what this person is is all about.
“Never let a crisis go to waste” seems to be an operational mandate for these leftists. IMO they purposefully are making matters in and along the gulf worse in order to further their anti-America agenda.
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