Posted on 08/19/2009 10:08:55 AM PDT by American Dream 246
Sarah Palin keeps hitting...
Sarah Palin pummeled Team Obama over the news yesterday that the government will fund Brazilian offshore oil development and research but deny US companies access to oil deposits off our own shores.
From her Facebook page, via Free Republic:
YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.
Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources?
That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America.
Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.
The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities.
These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
- Sarah Palin FYI: Barack Obama's top supporter George Soros is heavily invested in Brazilian oil- Petrobras. Soros made a major purchase last week before the news broke that the US would invest in the Brazilian oil company.
Nahanni says- "Follow the (Soros) money."
While I really really like Palin The Zero and dems in general are an easy target. She’s not doing anything clever here, just stating the obvious. Guess she does get points for having a backbone and using it. A lesson the GOP in general could learn from.
We cannot spare this woman. She fights|
She won't get so much as a hangnail. Don't you worry. Their worst nightmare would be for Sarah to become a martyr.
Agree with your reply. I used Texas and Saudi as these are the most recognized by consumers as the source of oil (could have used Canada, Mexico, but same applies).
Also, with Alaska (and Calif), the first instinct for most is to shut out any communication due to "environmental"/MotherEarth ideology. It's not worth the added discourse.
(kind of like the Baakan field being extremely wide, but equally narrow (shallow) in places -- how to determine where to drill to avoid those narrow access?
The Dakota's being a harsh area to drill and almost a third have shut down, as of last week (due to economy).
etc, etc. It's not always as easy as it seems.
What you say is true, however she is the one that makes the waves by doing so.
More power to her.
Not saying she’s my candidate in the big dance. But I’ll say one thing: Respeck!
Zero is rapidly revealing himself to be what freepers have assumed all along, **THE REAL ENEMY**
Ping
She can no doubt kick his hinder in basketball too!
Palin just crested 800,000 fans on FaceBook...
Dude, I think he got the font size just about right.
I’ve heard about this and wonder why it’s not being moved ahead.
obama has 6,000,000 facebook fans. palin needs at least 3.
“We cannot spare this woman. She fights|”
I love Lincoln too.
Bingo! Doing the things she couldn’t necessarily do from the governor’s chair. You go, Sarah, give ‘em h-e-double-hockey-sticks.
Very possible (I suppose).
Sarah is so many levels of awesome, it just isn’t fair.
Thanks again for the heads up, EdReform.
So why isn’t soros being arrested for insider trading?
Please don’t be offended but I’d like to be removed from your ping list. I’m getting swamped with pings lately.
thx,
McGruff
Thank you Mamzelle - please keep this question going.
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