Nothing wrong with that Judge's eyesight !
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Posted on 08/25/2010 4:26:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
Unemployment: A damning memo shows the administration knew its oil drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico would kill tens of thousands of jobs but did it anyway. We're the ones getting drilled.
There's a law known as the law of unintended consequences. It's invoked when you try to do the right thing but overlook other events and occurrences set in motion by your actions. In the case of the drilling moratorium, the consequences were intended.
In June, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman struck down Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's original moratorium, saying it was overkill based on flawed reasoning. "If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?" Feldman asked in his ruling. "That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed and rather overbearing."
So the administration went back, rearranged a few words and a few deck chairs, and reissued its moratorium. Last week, the Justice Department filed more than 27,000 pages of documents in a New Orleans court in the latest round of litigation over the moratorium. Among them is a memo detailing how the administration knew the job losses its drilling moratorium would cause and simply chose to ignore them and the people and communities affected.
The July 10 memo shows how Michael Bromwich, new director of the Minerals Management Service, told Salazar that a six-month halt in deep-water drilling would result in "lost direct employment" affecting 9,450 workers and "lost jobs from indirect and induced effects" affecting 13,797 more.
Nevertheless, the blanket moratorium was continued because Interior felt it couldn't trust the offshore oil industry or its own Minerals Management Service.
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Why would these goverment workers care? Their government checks were and still are being deposited.
Yeah, but not all voters are government workers
Got that right!!!
Paybacks a _______!!!
Nothing wrong with that Judge's eyesight !
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Damn your eyes!
And if they aren't on the public dole they might vote our way too! lol
"Too late!"
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