Having paid for the leases, is there any guarantee they'd actually be given permission to drill?
Having seen the way O gives with the right hand and takes it back with the left, I'd say these leases are only of value if he leaves office.
This is one of the big problems isn’t it? We can’t plan on a thing. We lurch from one extreme to another with increasing amplitude from one day to the next and one administration to another.
We never can count on anything. The rule of law and the good of the nation as a whole has been destroyed as concepts.
We have become Brazil was. Nobody there could plan for anything. They were constantly off balance. Just like we are now.
The United States has turned to shit as a place for investors, capitalists and dreams. It has become one of the worst business climates from the stand point of regulation and taxation in the World.
The British were able to rule India with so few troops because of the uniform application of the rule-of-law with equally uniform application of stern penalties. It mostly applied to everyone equally for crimes. Sure, there were the exceptions of rank and privilege but for the most part the subjects felt things were equitable. One thing the bureaucrats of the India Company had right was consistency. It worked for a long time.