Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (85920)	6/15/2010 7:26:12 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224777

Story #4: Why Obama Refused Help from Other Countries RUSH: Folks, the Heritage Foundation has released their perspective on just what Obama should be doing and should've done all along with the oil spill. Now, if you look at Obama's actions over the past 24 hours, you would think that Obama is almost a member of the Heritage Foundation, been reading their suggestions before taking them to heart. At least he has with respect to providing some leadership and actually listening to local officials in the several states that are really affected by all this. He's been out there with Haley Barbour. Of course Bobby Jindal said, "To hell with it, we're going to go ahead and build the berms." Did you see that? He said, "To hell with it, we're going to go ahead and build our berms, our sand traps." Anyway, if you're online, Heritage Foundation has a good explanation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. It authorizes the president to oversee the clean up immediately, but it took Bobby Jindal weeks to get the White House engaged. Heritage details the offers of help that started coming in three days after the spill started from 13 countries, but were turned away by our administration. And, you know, it's not, folks, simply due to the paperwork. There's another reason for it. Crucial offers to help clean up BP's oil spill have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that possess some of the world's most advanced oil skimming ships. But the Obama administration would not accept the help because doing so would require it to do something that past presidents have routinely done, and that is waive rules imposed by the Jones Act which is a law backed by unions. The BP cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico is hampered by the Jones Act. It's a piece of 1920s protectionist legislation that requires all vessels working in US waters to be American built and American crewed. And that's why Obama refused to let these other nations help, because of the Jones Act. He was being loyal to the unions. Presidents have routinely waived this. You know, we always say, "Does anybody come to help us?" Yeah, we have received officers. Belgium. The Dutch. The Norwegians. And because of the Jones Act, we're not letting 'em in. Heritage details all of this. All the rhetoric, all the blame. Now, you can get Heritage's well-researched point of view online today. It's well worth reading. AskHeritage.org. It's also where you can join this fabulous organization like I have done, and like over 600,000 of your fellow citizens have done -- for a measly $25. You can't afford not to be this informed. AskHeritage.org. And one more thing. I think when it comes to all these offers of help from foreign countries, one of the reasons that Obama turns it down is because it would demonstrate to people how incompetent his response has been, if there were people out there who could actually have started working three days after this thing to clean it up with booms and so forth and we couldn't. So once again, it's all about Obama. It's all about Obama; it's all about his agenda; it's all about the unions. Make no mistake about it. The reason he turned down this help is so he wouldn't be shown up as incompetent and ineffective. He has put the health of unions over the health of Gulf Coast by failing to waive the Jones Act.