Unions have lots of money to throw around, but it's still the individual vote that elects the candidate.
Steer clear of anything to do with unions...they are poison to this nation.
Posted on 06/12/2010 8:55:08 AM PDT by Starman417
Day 53 of the Gulf oil disaster and no end in sight!
On Day 52, I asked: "Does Obama Care More About Protecting Unions Than Cleaning Up Oil Spill? Why hasn't he accepted cleanup help from friends overseas?"
Today, we have another report on the Jones Act. Pay special attention to the words of James Carafano from the Heritage Foundation:
[VIDEO AT SITE]
Jones Act Slowing Oil Spill Cleanup? by: Brian Wilson Fox News June 10, 2010...After 50 plus days of oil flowing freely into the gulf, the question could be asked: Why do effective and proven foreign clean up ships remain on the sidelines? Carafano believes it may have something to do with the Obama administration’s close relationship with labor unions.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
Boy are people going to be really mad when they figure out Obama let the spill get worse to try and pass cap and trade.
With Obama, ideology trumps everything, including destroying the Gulf of Mexico. We got us one vindictive president here.
No official waiver yet from Jack Squator this Jack Squat administration?
Gee, I would have figured since Bush waived the Jones Act in the wake of Katrina that Jack Squat would not be undone by a president he so lambasted over his handling of Katrina....irony abounds....
On May 27th–Memorial Day weekend–Jake Tapper reported that 17 nations have offered assistance with this crisis:
At yesterday’s State Department briefing, spokesman P.J. Crowley updated reporters on the offers of international assistance the Department has received to help with the oil spill in the Gulf.
He said the U.S. has received offers to assist from 17 countries . . . The countries are: Canada, Mexico, Korea, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Vietnam.
Though the State Department receives the offers, it is BP and the Unified Area Command, led by the Coast Guard, that are the entities that decide which offers to accept. So far, the UAC has accepted skimmers and booms offered by Mexico and Norway. He deferred questions as to why only those offers had been accepted so far to the UAC in Louisiana.
Crowley did not have much information on what each country was specifically offering besides saying, “technical things, skimmers, booms, you know in some cases expertise.” He said most of the offers came in the weeks after the spill.
So, BP is in charge, then? BP is refusing help from all but two nations?
But I thought the president was in charge; this crisis is occurring in a federal jurisdiction. During Katrina, people excoriated President Bush for not overstepping his bounds by bringing the feds in before the local and state governments did their work. President Obama has no such restrictions on him. Why isn’t he helping Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal expedite the damn paperwork through bureaucratic channels, so he can build his berms? Why isn’t he telling BP, “what do you mean, you accepted so little help?”
17 nations offered help with “technical things and in some cases expertise.” I’m thinking Russia and the UAE might have quite a bit of expertise to lend.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/06/03/vacuuming-up-the-oil-spill-part-ii/
Unions over oil.....
Unions over US.....
Unions uber alles.
I love humorous rhetorical questions.;-)
Obama’s refusing help on the oil spill cleanup has nothing to do with unions. Has nothing to do with cap and trade. Has all to do with the destruction of the United States economy. Obama is succeeding in his muslim mission.
“Labor Unions and Jones Act Continue to Block Oil Spill Cleanup”
Follow the money ...
Joyce Foundation
Goldman Sachs
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)
Apollo Alliance
Sierra Club
SEIU
...
http://apolloalliance.org/about/board/
Board
Apollo Board of Directors
Chairman
Phil Angelides, President, Riverview Capital Investments
Members
Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Chief Executive Officer, Green For All
Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation
Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
Ellen Pao, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Al Gore)
Michael Peck, Principal, MAPA Incorporated
John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress
Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
Dan W. Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
Jerome Ringo, Senior Executive for Global Strategies, Green Port
Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
The Jones Act hasn’t meant much since the Canadian National Railroad company bought US Steel’s Great Lakes Steamship fleet about ten years ago.
The foreign ships should just show up and start cleaning up the oil. If the Obama administration tries to stop them, it will be all over the press.
"Hey, it's just business. We'll give the guys in Miami a call.
40% has a nice ring to it ... we don't want to sound greedy what with this being a
national emergency and all ..."
One person is blocking the clean up - Hmm hmm hmm Barack Hussein Oblahblah.
What movie is that from?
The Sopranos.
It really is ridiculous for the unions to stop these oil gathering ships from coming here from other countries because the US doesn’t have any of those kind of ships. We can blame Obama and his marxist buds for the oil all over the ocean and on our beaches. The truth will rise to the surface, just like this oil, and the blame is gonna be on this WH!!
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