Posted on 09/01/2015 6:11:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Anyone who studied U.S. history remembers Seward's Folly — America's purchase of Alaska by then-Secretary of State William H. Seward. Today in the 49th state, the president is carrying out folly of his own.
Russia's price tag for Alaska in 1867 was $7.2 million — or 2 cents an acre for a land area twice the size of Texas. At the time, it was seen as an inflated price, but Alaska was soon recognized as strategically important for national security and rich with natural resources — first gold, then oil and gas.
Obama's in Alaska for three days not to celebrate the state's massive storehouse of vital energy resources but to close them off and shut them down. He's there for a cynical photo op in front of massive and magnificent glaciers that he claims are melting due to greenhouse gas emissions. Could his timing possibly be worse?
In the midst of a financial minipanic of recent weeks with wild stock market fluctuations, huge losses in retirement savings and an economy that continues to underperform, Obama's message is that climate change is destroying the planet.
Only Obama would go to one of the most frigid places in the world, where temperatures can reach a minus 50 degrees, to complain about too much warming. He's smart not to go in the winter.
But what Alaskans care most about right now, as Gov. Bill Walker has put it, is "economic climate change."
The state has taken a devastating double hit this year. The fall in the price of oil and the bottoming out of Prudhoe Bay — not long ago one of America's largest oil finds but now yielding only one-third of the oil from its peak production — has put a huge dent in the Alaska economy
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Actually this morning it looks like the democrats are going to spend the day screeching about the possibility of a “GOP government shutdown”.
Climate and marijuana tax will bail us out of this mess.
Rand Paul 2012!
Alaska is being punished for electing Sen. Lisa Murkowski…twice.
He is certainly not ignoring the Economy.
Because ‘climate’ is the most lucrative avenue for plunder going forward. Well positioned elites will loot trillion$ from carbon credit scams and from ‘green’ industry subsidies.
The murder, torture, and sex slavery of Christians is not on his list of priorities.
The illegal activity of Planned Parenthood is not on his list either.
The problems with this so-called Agreement, which is just a giveaway to Iran, is not an issue to him.
This president has more important items on his agenda—naming mountains, stifling business, etc.
Our economy is a subject that opposes his one world government agenda. Of course he doesn’t care about our economy, it’s a world economy and a world crisis that needs to be....controlled.
Of course he’s ignoring the economy. Economics is hard - it’s big, visible, complicated... Worst of all, it has now been (again) resoundingly demonstrated that the kind of economic policies favored by bammy simply do not work. No narcissist likes to admit failure, so in typical lib fashion he’s just ignoring it, going off in another direction.
Men Seeking Men Mediums Fixate On Climate, Ignore Faltering Economy
There. Fixed it.
A Marxist has no idea how to fix the economy.
He would only screw it up worse.
He intended to wreck our economy. He’s also formenting a race war - everyone against whites.
I wish some Republican would get in front of a camera and tell him to denounce the groups urging blacks to kill white cops. Silence is consent. Obama’s silence is consent. The FBI needs to investigate all the black hate groups, including their funding and including the NOI.
White cops could bring a class action law suit against these black racist groups and individuals and their funders. The families of the white cops murdered could sue the NIO or another group for inciting racist murder. Blacks have do this to the neo-nazi groups.
He’s doing all he can to collapse this Nation within the global Marxist ideology and plan. He’s an evil weevel.
President Buckwheat lives for golf and golfs to live. No wonder that world leaders laugh at this clown. This 50 IQ sh*thead couldn’t organize a boy scout campfire. When TSHF, this coward will crawl under a rock. Martial law, my butt.
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