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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: manalagi who wrote (78415)	6/17/2010 11:52:14 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Why do you think he's not waiving the act? Sadly I have to surmise that Obama does not want to lose labor support. After all, he is still a politician who genuinely wants to help the country getting back to her glory days, and to do that he needs to be re-elected in 2012. The corollary is that he needs the backing of labor unions. I did some research last nite and I think its something different. We've seen with past disasters that right after the disaster strikes, the host country doesn't know exactly what they need. We saw that recently with Chile and Haiti after their huge quakes. In those countries, a common complaint was that neither country was accepting outside aid initially. And the response from both countries was the same; that they hadn't figured out what they needed. And I believe that's a typical problem.....when a disaster strikes, and lets face it the Gulf oil spill is definitely not a typical disaster like a quake or a hurricane, the host country is overwhelmed with the problems the disaster creates and initially isn't able to ascertain what it needs. As the path to a solution becomes clearer, then the host country can tell others what it needs. I think that's mostly what's been happening with the Gulf oil spill and that the Jones Act has little to do with it.