US oil slick could trigger 'double-dip' recession: analyst

Breitbart ^ | 05/03/10 | Staff

[OldDeckHand]

Of course, it's the oil slick - the looming economic disaster has nothing to do with out-of-control government spending and record-breaking tax increases. It's all about the oil spill.

[SouthTexas]

leaving a clean-up operation which would take a decade to complete.

Wasn't it going to take 10 years to put out all the oilwell fires in Kuwait?

[al baby]

[Tarpon]

tax the oil spill?

Great job you’re doing Bami.

[spectre]

The people of this Nation have held fund raisers for the people of Haiti, etc. It's time we helped our own.

Our fishermen are in imminent danger of losing their Boats because they can't fish to get the money to pay for them and their slip fees. Their source of income is gone for a long, long time.

We, as Americans, have to do something to help these people. They are our people.

[MEGoody]

Of course, it's the oil slick - the looming economic disaster has nothing to do with out-of-control government spending and record-breaking tax increases.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[Rockitz]

Now that’s what I call turning chicken sh!+ into chicken feed- another ready made excuse for the RATs. Seems like they could spin this into supporting Cap & Trade as well. It’s like they planned it.

[MEGoody]

So when’s the fund-raiser?

[SoCalRight]

Yeah and the ash cloud from that volcano two weeks ago was supposed to cripple the world economy for ten years too. They must have a class in J-School now called Basic Uses of Hysteria.

We’ll see.

[jiggyboy]

Indeed. I too call “disinformation” on this article. Without even really paying attention to the news on this, I see a lot of information saying that BP is on the hook for the bill, including whatever Federal and State resources are put to use. If it gets to the point where BP is bankrupted and it’s still not fixed, that’s another matter — but as of now that can’t be the basis for this kind of article.

[ThanhPhero]

Now the Kenyan and his government media can blame a recollapsing economy on those damned capitalists, the oil companies.

[Gator113]

Oh good. Obama now has some other excuse to use in defending his FAILURES.

Obama inherited oil drilling. Those environment wrecking oil wells were put there by the wealthy whites long before the One can to bless us all.

The racist whites, that’s all whites that don’t support Obama, deliberately allowed the oil to flow into the ocean, so close to NO, because they hate the blacks and what to put them all out of work.

From “day one” Obama has been a failure... why would there be any change?

[Tarpon]

LOL, ash prediction didn't go so well in the hysteria department. That's a good one, but the slick is showing on beaches in the area.

But as to the real damage, sea water eats oil, so we will have to see. There are some dead turtles and fish showing on shores.

[Haiku Guy]

They need to blame this
On some external trigger,
And not Obama...

[Colvin]

The effect will be regional, not universal like what the Banks were pulling.

[cripplecreek]

I suspect its going to trigger both global warming and an ice age.....at the same time.

[Sacajaweau]

The problem may be more local. All our store shrimp, mussels, salmon here in uostate NY are from an Asian source.

I believe the oil people are hiring them since they know the seas.

[Obadiah]

Next MSM headline:

Oil Slick in Gulf Unexpectedly Causes Unemployments to Rise this Month

[Venturer]

The moststupid thing that could come out of this is if the Giovernment uses this to stop drilling for oil offshore and close down oil drilling onshore.

Ya know what. That is exactly what I predict will happen.
Obama will use this to force Americans energy prices up into the rafters.