Here's The Real Reason America Refused International Help On The Oil Spill

Business Insider ^ | 6/10/10 | Dian L. Chu

[Cobra64]

And possible try to take over BP, again just guessing.

I believe BP (British Petroleum) is not a US corporation.

[null and void]

Isn’t BP itself foreign?

The better to be nationalized, my dear.

(It's a socialist tradition)...

[EBH]

The Jones Act was waived during Katrina.

No excuses.

[Cobra64]

The Jones Act has been waived before. It was waived under Dubya.

Ijnteresting. Any documentation available?

[The Comedian]

Barry summons the real-life version of Cthulhu:

"The stars are aligned this year..." - Barack Hussein Soetoro, May 13, 2009

"The Stars may be aligned this time..." - Barack Hussein Soetoro, May 22, 2009

"The stars are aligned, and we need to take advantage of it..." - Barack Hussein Soetoro, July 22, 2009

The continuing Gulf leak is a demonic animal sacrifice to Dagon via "drowning" orchestrated by a cabal of black wizards, with Barry as their current visible high priest and Dark Magi.

This "leak" is a precursor to a massive burnt offering sacrifice to Moloch by the same group. However, the burnt offering sacrifice will be human and on a similar scale.

Barry and the other "wizards" wouldn't describe themselves in these terms, or what they are doing in the context of supernatural sacrifices. But that doesn't change the fact that they are.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Josephat]

I fear it will be the dispersant that will kill the ocean. Nature knows how to deal with the oil; the chemicals may be another matter.

[Cold Heart]

The Jones Act has been waived numerous times and rarely gains national attention.

The act was waived at the start of the Alaskan pipeline because the US did not have the tanker capacity. We built capacity and the waiver was cancelled.

Both presidents Bush had waived the Act.

Admiral Thad Allen just spoke about the Act and said the Act was not stopping the importing of equipment and no one had asked to waive the ACT.

[CajunConservative]

It was mentioned on Fox news.
http://www.winston.com/siteFiles/publications/CGP_BEG_Article_Benedicts_2005_Vol_3_No_4.pdf

http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMV/2005sep0062.html

[etcb]

It does seem that personal interest directs most actions by this president. Another item of personal interest to consider is that if the oil had been contained before reaching shore many Obama supporters who have never worked a day in their lives would have been deprived of the right to file claims for lost wages and profits from non existent occupations.

While many good and honorable people will unnecessarily suffer, this is going to turn out to be a poverty pimp’s dream. You are already seeing complaints about slow payment and how unjust it is to require documentation on claims for loss. “Clean up” of the oil is not nearly as important to this administration as the other type of “clean up” that will occur.

[Diogenesis]

“According to Foreign Policy, thirteen entities that had offered the U.S. oil spill
assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the
governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands,
Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the
United Nations.
The U.S. response - Thank you, but no thank you, we've got it.
‘..While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is
assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need
in the near future.’”

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"You had your chance to invest in NALCO and ConEd
but you blew it. But we also run a vacation flotilla
in the Mediterranean … with a seat just for you."

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[libstripper]

I’m from Tennessee and can tell you we of the Volunteer State have the honor of getting the first rigid digit from the Illegal. Not once did he even mention the horrific flood that struck middle Tennessee, killing more than 20 people, and devastating Nashville. We demand to be at the head of line, returning his compliment, in spades!!

[freekitty]

That’s not Obama’s agenda. Destruction of America is.

[WOBBLY BOB]

damn him and his stupid act.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Dutch news site De Standaard also reported Belgian and Dutch dredgers have technology in-house to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but the Act Jones forbids them to work in the U.S.

[TigersEye]

So, when Haiti has a major disaster Barry0 sends in the Navy and Marines and tells Haiti "sorry, you will set aside your sovereignty and we will control the situation." (until the media leaves and there's no further political advantage for me)

But when we have a tremendous disaster, threatening the livelihoods of millions and billions of dollars of economic activity, Barry0 invokes an Act covering the sovereignty of our trade unions and slaps away the hands of several nations who offer assistance?

Never mind that these ships wouldn't really be involved in shipping goods as is covered by the Jones Act. Forget poor leadership skills this is a deliberate obstruction. Things could have gone better if no one was in the WH.

[Cobra64]

Thanks!

[Cobra64]

Thanks!

[Quix]

INDEED.

[lonestar]

It protects the union members...who own BO.

Bush signed a waiver after Katrina.