Posted on 06/12/2010 9:25:40 AM PDT by balls
Executive Order rescinds and Obama looks like a leader and probably is. The question is why did he not do this?
Bull. The Jones act is about transporting goods between American ports on American ships. It has nothing to do with this situation. Even if it did, it can be waved in case of national emergencies. It’s amazoing that it has been dredged up to give Oblahblan cover.
Was the Jones Act ever brought up during the rush from other countries to aid America during Katrina? I don’t recall ever hearing about it. Obama could shut the Jones down with one phone call and except the help of those oil siphoning boats.
Bush rescinded this law temporarily for Katrina but 0 won’t do it because of his ties to the unions.
How could this have been a problem?
Gore had a "I Won" attitude once, too.
post # 4....owooooo, meant accept the help.....
Congress is equally slow. Not one legislator has proposed an amendment to this law?
Obama could have waived it on day two, and brought in the big Dutch ocean skimmer ships that were offered.
People need to know this.
I believe we need a Jones Act of 1920 Commission to survey this situation. We need fourteen Democrats (preferably non-standing senators or representatives) and ten Republicans (same deal). They will meet in Mammoth Falls, Oregon over the next six months to discuss the matter. A staff of forty-four government workers will be at their beckon call.
The final report will be given to the President around January 2011...and they will make the final recommendation....which the President can accept or decline.
Oh, and from the fourteen Democrats....eight will be union guys from New Jersey....just to make things right and fair.
See #% if you haven’t already.
Do you really need to ask that question? He protects the union thugs. To hell with the Southern states and their damn beaches. This is an ideologue, not a leader.
Perhaps someone can help me with this question.
Don’t many east coast ports have oil response teams with boats and booms that can be called out in an emergency?
After Katrina, the Maritime Administration order the TV Sate of Maine (the training ship for the Maine Maritime Academy) to New Orleans to provide logistical and housing support for the relief and clean-up effort. So those teams could have been called immediately after the accident.
Also, once the oil leave US waters could not any ship from any country begin skimming the oil?
Hussein Obama screws the pooch again. All he had to do was issue an executive order and the ships would have been at work and Hussein would have looked less bad than he now does.
But he didn’t.
I’ve only made a few observations about the oil spill/cleanup.
They’ve all been pretty much the same; Big Government has interferred with this blowout from day one, and in fact, long before it was even on the drawingboard.
Big Government, bad for the enviroment and for us, the people.
British Petroleum, good for the enviroment, and for us, the people
The Jones Act can be waived by anyone in the shipping business. My husband is a freight forwarder and has had the Jones Act waived by filing paperwork, Not that difficult.
Guess who was President in 1920?
Woodrow Wilson
I think you or I would piss on the unions to save the coastline of 6 states. However that does not appear to be the kind of leader Obama is.
From what I know about it, it strips away his cover.
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