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The real danger behind Obama’s plan to ban oil drilling

July 10th, 2010

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Both the short and long term effects of President Obama’s plan to ban offshore drilling and exploration will further devastate the already fragile economy of America. In the Gulf States alone, the ban would affect over 50,000 workers at a cost of over $165 million in lost wages every week. The President’s Executive Order to freeze drilling has been overturned by two separate courts leading Obama to look at other means to stop production of one of our most important assets.

The President failed miserably in leading the government response to the accident on BP’s Deep Water Horizon rig. His inaction prevented local authorities from taking actions that could have minimized the damage being caused by the spill. When Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal asked for permission to build a barrier to prevent the spill from reaching sensitive wetlands, the Federal government stopped him stating that a full environmental impact study would have to be completed before the barrier could be considered.  The proper response would have been to issue an Executive Order suspending the normal bureaucratic process that can take years to complete and allow local officials to take the needed actions to protect their coastline in time to save sensitive ecosystems. Now it is too late.

The real threat comes from the fact that the President has a deeper agenda and is using the spill to further the weakening of American national security and increase our dependence on foreign oil. Members of Obama’s inner circle have been waiting for the right scenario for years to seize control of national industries which they know will bring our country to its knees, making it easier for them to institute their plan of a statist nation. This crisis has given them all they could hope for.

If the Administration’s plans are allowed to be enacted, we will see gas prices rise to more than double what we are paying now, leaving America’s economy in ruin. They will wrap the issue in catchy phrases like “we have to save the environment”,  giving them the ability to attack anyone who opposes them as not caring about the environment.  This is the same tactic the far left has used for the last 60 years to trick us into thinking they have our best interests at heart. It is up to us as voters to make sure this does not happen. Each of us must continue to sound the alarm about the real agenda behind the fluff.

The first step in stopping the takeover of America is to change the balance of power in Congress during the November elections. The President cannot achieve his goals without a complicit legislative body to pass the laws he needs to expand government control. Some may argue that such a Congress will stop progress which is exactly what we need in these current times. Without quick and decisive action by voters in November, we are unlikely to have another chance to return America to the principles that made us the greatest nation in the world.

It is time for each of us to get involved in the election process by volunteering for the candidates and causes we support. It is time to put down the protest signs and sign up to walk your neighborhoods to speak to everyone we meet about what is at stake. Take the time to educate yourselves on the issues that matter most to you so you are ready to counter the shallow arguments you are likely to face. The stakes of this fight are not Democrat vs. Republican. This fight is about saving the country we love and the liberties that come from being American.

May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America.

Roger Offshore drilling ban ,

  1. hungry4food
    July 16th, 2010 at 13:25 | #1

    The UNIONS Infected the Governments duty to Process with the Jones Act . This is not a BP problem by itself !
    The main claim in this case would be to show the failure of Government because of political infection by allowing union interference in Governments ability to uphold the Constitutional duty and sunset the Jones Act so the best efforts to contain the Oil Spill were made .

    The main claim in this case would be to show the failure of Government because of political infection by allowing union interference in Governments ability to uphold the Constitutional duty to the Citizens and the failure of the Executive Office to know by experience when its duty to Intervene and execute the duty of the office of the president to perform the duty to the states of the republic over the Politics of favoring Unions , in this case Obama failed by lack of executive experience to know that his first responsibility was to Country Not Union in executing the sunset law over the Jones Act , and this has to be brought out .

    Gulf Coast Citizens Class Action civil suit , to include Multiple Environmental Groups , against BP , The UNIONS & US Federal Governments Department of Minerals and Mines & FEMA agency’s Lack of of Leadership on designation of Duty to executing environmental requirements First to make every attempt to secure and contain oil at the earliest moment of time when oil well explosion and release of oil into ocean waters resulted , and instead the US federal Government choose to be Political in its decision making process by first yielding to Union Pressure to NOT by executive order on behave of the Safety and welfare of the Citizens of the Gulf Coast region , sunset the shipping laws that favor Unions that stalled every attempt to put into action immediately the Right equipment and personnel to make every Real Effort to contain and secure the Oil Spill crisis .

    The Spill cleanup could have been Handled Better but Unions and Government Could Not get out of the way of Politics and the result has Been Citizens and Environmental Suffrage as well as Wild Life , all because of Political Dictatorial at a level and time when Politics have no Jurisdiction over Emergency Management policy !!!!!!!

    The Gulf Coast Citizens and the Environmental Organizations need to form a coalition to go after the Unions and the Politicians that put Politics First instead of First Securing and Containing at the very earliest moment the oil spill , and this need to be tried and established a time which shows the courts that in the event that this type of dereliction to duty and failure of leadership to first attempt every single possible effort to securement and containment was not performed , because Political favors towards Unions was the first priority and that Is not the First order of duty by Government in the event of crisis !!!!!!!!!

    American citizens need to set a precedence by bring this case before the courts and try these issues to establish a process that makes sure next time this ever happens or anything of crisis happens that Politics Never get in the way of timely efforts to make the very best effort possible to contain and secure the Environment for the benefit of Eco system and Human need . This article below shows how Politics has stood in the way of Duty to Citizens and Country First and the Citizens and Environment have suffered because of it , This has got to chance ……….FT.com / Companies / Shipping – Unions rebuff call to repeal …Jul 5, 2010 … Unions rebuff call to repeal shipping law … US maritime unions and politicians have rushed to defend strict domestic shipping legislation …
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/69ecb2f0-886f-11df-aade-00144feabdc0.html

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