Dixie - In Memoriam
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The Obama Administration has made it clear, they plan to allow the Gulf of Mexico turn into the Le brea Tar Pits, while they lawyer up to destroy BP, and push for even more audacious political plans to ban offshore drilling and tax carbon! Completely oblivious to the very real economic and environmental catastrophe continuing to unfold before them, the Democrats proceed with their brow beating of BP and War on Big Oil, and if they are absolutely cornered into a response regarding Governmental response, it will be to undoubtedly establish yet another layer of federal bureaucracy to oversee the federally-funded Mineral Management Service, who's job it is to oversee the oil companies! Blame? Oh, that all goes to Republicans and the Tea Party who have been saying "Drill, baby, drill!" BP and Teabaggers! That's the only parties to BLAME in this, and the worse the damage and destruction to our coast, the more it drives that political point home... THAT is why there is no real ACTION being taken by this Administration or the Democrat Liberals who are now in full control of our government!
Here are the LESSONS we should learn from this disaster....
1.) Federal Government is ineffective when 'regulating' private oil companies. Force these companies to purchase and maintain FULL LIABILITY insurance, and you will see the insurance companies WILL do the job of ensuring regulations are followed. It is ludicrous our Government established a $75 million liability cap for BP, or ANY oil company drilling ANYWHERE on US soil! Only Our Government could do such a stupid and boneheaded thing... and before you smart-asses post some link to show it the fault of 'Pubs, this isn't an Anti-Dem thing, it's Anti-GOVERNMENT! The Oil Companies should be FULLY liable, for not only the clean-up, but the damages as well, and they need to be insured for the appropriate amounts they could be expected to have to pay for damages. IF this were the approach, it would save the Federal Government tons of money, we could eliminate all those staffers who were spending their time surfing porn on the Internet!
2.) Federal Government is wholly inadequate at handling an immediate crisis and disaster. This has always traditionally been the primary function of the STATE government, but we have recently traveled down the pinhead road of Statism, the ideology that we are a collective STATE ruled by centralized authority in Washington D.C., and not independent states who form the United States. It is the STATE who has the best handle on the situation, the best resources readily available and in logistical position to act swiftly, it is the State who controls the National Guard, and has the ability to use them to respond quickly in a time of crisis. The Federal Government is a feckless mess of bureaucrats who do more to get in the way and HAMPER the efforts, than anything else.
3.) Politicians who are driven by ideology and have no real-world experience leading, make terrible managers of a crisis. Has anyone thought about how this disaster might have been handled differently by Bush, Cheney, even Bill Clinton, as much as I hate to admit it... Pretty much anyone other than maybe Jimmy Carter, would have handled this better than Obama. Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, even Hillary... would have done better than Obama!
Here are the LESSONS we should learn from this disaster....
1.) Federal Government is ineffective when 'regulating' private oil companies. Force these companies to purchase and maintain FULL LIABILITY insurance, and you will see the insurance companies WILL do the job of ensuring regulations are followed. It is ludicrous our Government established a $75 million liability cap for BP, or ANY oil company drilling ANYWHERE on US soil! Only Our Government could do such a stupid and boneheaded thing... and before you smart-asses post some link to show it the fault of 'Pubs, this isn't an Anti-Dem thing, it's Anti-GOVERNMENT! The Oil Companies should be FULLY liable, for not only the clean-up, but the damages as well, and they need to be insured for the appropriate amounts they could be expected to have to pay for damages. IF this were the approach, it would save the Federal Government tons of money, we could eliminate all those staffers who were spending their time surfing porn on the Internet!
2.) Federal Government is wholly inadequate at handling an immediate crisis and disaster. This has always traditionally been the primary function of the STATE government, but we have recently traveled down the pinhead road of Statism, the ideology that we are a collective STATE ruled by centralized authority in Washington D.C., and not independent states who form the United States. It is the STATE who has the best handle on the situation, the best resources readily available and in logistical position to act swiftly, it is the State who controls the National Guard, and has the ability to use them to respond quickly in a time of crisis. The Federal Government is a feckless mess of bureaucrats who do more to get in the way and HAMPER the efforts, than anything else.
3.) Politicians who are driven by ideology and have no real-world experience leading, make terrible managers of a crisis. Has anyone thought about how this disaster might have been handled differently by Bush, Cheney, even Bill Clinton, as much as I hate to admit it... Pretty much anyone other than maybe Jimmy Carter, would have handled this better than Obama. Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, even Hillary... would have done better than Obama!
