U.S. Citizens must do for ourselves, while we are being mushroom managed by the Obama administration and their accomplices in globalist mega-racketeering (Link-1Link2). This is especially essential at the Gulf. Here are two important examples on video, of citizens at work.
The first reports what may be very serious contamination of the waters, as far eastward as Florida.
“As far as EPA, OSHA, NOAA, BP, and the ‘Federal’ Government… every one of them is in collaboration with each other. That comes from someone at the top of NOAA.”
Meet Kindra Arnesen of southern Plaquemines Parish, a force for the People, at the toe of Louisiana’s boot. She is addressing Citizens who are organizing on their own and using the Web site, gulfemergencysummit.org.
Kindra Arnesen may now be America’s leading reporter (among professionals and amateurs alike) on the doings of the “cleanup” operations in the Gulf of Mexico. She relates, the Obama Administration has placed British Petroleum plc “in charge” of those operations, and are bypassing federal OSHA regulations written to protect workers with basics, such as respirators. She also describes how the residents, in their homes, workplaces, and schools, are being seriously harmed, the empirical evidence being the symptoms she describes, symptoms of chemical toxicity — and that this is being made light of, with no real solutions offered.
No government solutions offered by the Obama administration? Odd behavior, especially for a politician of the “far left,” would it not seem? Not odd behavior for a government moving toward authoritarian Marxofascism, which has been complicit with (and in hiding, crouched behind) BP, all along.
Top Democratic congressional leaders are at odds over whether to use unspent stimulus funds for emergency spending currently under debate in Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he opposes tapping into the stimulus pot.
“That is not anything he can support at this time,” Jim Manley, a spokesman for Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told The Daily Caller.
The comment comes one day after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said unequivocally that he supports making a move the party in power has resisted for months.
“I have asked the White House to look at the package that we — the Recovery and Reinvestment Act that we passed, approximately $800-plus billion,” said Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, in a little-noticed remark on ABC’s “This Week.”
“There are clearly funds in there that have not been expended to see whether or not there are some available for this more immediate priority than some that may not be quite as immediate,” he said.
Hoyer’s view is a major concession for Democrats, who have fought to keep the $862 billion stimulus untouched through a series of disputes over major spending bills. The stimulus was passed in February 2009 and originally estimated to cost $787 billion, but the Congressional Budget Office said in January that the total would actually be higher.
My mom and dad used to take me and my siblings to Destin Florida each summer. It was a week that I always looked forward to and times I have remembered all my life. As I got older I returned to the Panhandle to enjoy the beautiful beaches, seafood and sun. I cannot believe my eyes at what I see happening from the oil leak. The people are losing their livelihoods. Tourism will dwindle to nothing. The photos of the animals stuck in the oily goo is heartbreaking. Even worse seeing those that have died. It is an ecological and environmental disaster and is going to an economic disaster. I hold BP responsible for the industrial accident. And honestly, despite their vast riches, I do not see how they make it out of this situation. I can appreciate how difficult it is to contain a leak a mile down in the Gulf. It shows just how limited our technology is when something like this beyond our resources to fully contain. You can bet that if deep water drilling is ever allowed again in the Gulf that simultaneous relief wells will be drilled, at huge expenses. With the huge insurance costs and regulations I just do not see how deep water drilling will return. That can be unfortunate as the amount of oil we will import will necessarily increase from our enemies. The number of jobs lost will number in the tens of thousands. And eventually we will be seeing it at the pump as the price of gasoline will creep back toward $4-5 a gallon. Oh happy days.
At this point I have turned my anger toward our inept presidential administration. I cannot believe the incompetence of leadership that is on display. Explain why Obama has not initiated some sort of national emergency and activated Guard units to at least be on the scene. At least rescue animals. How can they not be skimming the shit out of the Gulf and collecting oil. There should be a D-Day size flotilla of vessiles out there surrounding the leak and skimming the oil 24/7. Maybe there is but I doubt it.
17 countries from around the world have offered help and BP and/or the Administration turned down all but the booms from Norway and Mexico. Hell, bring the whole world in to help. Have every person East of the Mississippi River go down with their boat and use tampons to skim up what they can. Just do something. The government needs to have somebody, a lot of somebodies do something. James Carville was right. They ARE dying down there.
People on the TV are bloviating over Obama’s lack of ability to emote. We don’t need a Crier in Chief. What we need is a Commander in Chief. Someone like Jindal who on the ground taking charge and trying to make things happen every day while Obama plays golf and listens to shitty Beatles music. The problem that I have had from day one is the guy has never had a single day of executive decision making experience. The voters wanted someone that could make great speeches and apparently little else. Well, good for us, because now we have incompetence supposedly running the show.
I am a limited government guy. But what I do want the feds to do is protect the borders. Protect the country. That is what they should be doing. If that means growing the government as in a time of war to defend the country then so be it. This is a war. We are being invaded by an environmental and ecological disaster, soon to an economic one. Why the hell can our socialist leaders not see this? They were damn sure laser focused on ramming through some shitty health care bill. Gosh maybe all that stimulus money the statists insisted on having could have been used on something like this national emergency rather than all their stupid pet projects like turtle tunnels.
BP has a lot to pay for and make right. They may not be a company when this is settled. As they start having to sell off pieces of itself to pay for the litigation and cleanup they may well become China Petroleum before it’s done. Our government may in fact bleed them dry. So be it. But history is going to show that it was Obama, despite the media trying to give him cover, who didn’t have a clue in dealing with this. Running around threatening to sue on behalf of everybody is not leadership. This is a crisis of leadership. Remember after 9/11 and Bush went down to the rubble and basically said “I got this”. Obama can barely make himself go to the beach and read from a teleprompter. It hardly gives me confidence that he “has this”.
This is leadership on the front lines, not just on the sidelines. Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal has been working non-stop over the past month to protect his state from the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill — and from the bureaucratic delays in the Obama administration.
Click on the image to watch the video of his latest press conference as Gov. Jindal explains what he is doing to contain the damage:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not wait for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Oil has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes, with two major pelican rookeries awash in crude.
Gov. Jindal was critical of the amount of boom his state received to ward off the oil seeping toward the coastline. But his major gripe comes at the expense of the Army Corps of Engineers, who have yet to give the go-ahead for the building of sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands. He used photographic evidence of oil breaking through hard booms, soft booms and another layer of protection, before being finally being corralled by a sand boom built by the National Guard.
The President of an oppressive third world oligarchy has been telling us just what he expects of us in an insulting diatribe that stretched several limits of credulity.
Calderon and Obama
His illegal immigrants are flooding our emergency rooms, our schools, public welfare schemes and our legal system, courts and prisons. The internecine drug wars tearing at the very substance of his country are the direct result of government corruption at every level.
President Calderon thinks you’re stupid… after his self righteous presentations to the Congress and the people of the country about the glories of illegal immigration, and how grateful we should be for absorbing millions of illegals. He went on to detail how unjust Arizona’s new immigrant enforcement law is and how illegals have human rights which our laws overlook.
I should have mentioned that Barack Obama set the stage for Calderon’s performance with a sophomoric rant about a ‘path to citizenship for aliens’. It’s the same thing we shot down during the Bush years. Giving it the good old politburo standing ovation, the DeMarxists looked like puppets on cue. The Republicans forswore the privilege. Calderon should certainly receive an award for raw out-and-out chutzpah.
Would anyone care to know how Mexico treats illegals as they come across the southern Mexican border? Two years in prison for a first offense and ten for a second. Non-citizens have no rights in Mexico. Mexico’s ‘General Laws’ see to that. Even a naturalized Mexican citizen is second class to native born Mexicans and may not participate in the Mexican political process, among other restrictions. Mexican illegal aliens are frequently beaten, robbed, or, in the case of women, raped.
So, Mr Calderon. Tell us again how your country would survive if we did close the border. My guess is it wouldn’t. Walk softly, Mr Calderon… you may regret your words before it’s said and done.
How much will the H.R. 3200 cost? Historically, the cost estimates of every medical program implemented by government has cost more, often significantly more. Massachusetts passed a universal-coverage plan in 2006, which required all residents to have health coverage and gave subsidies for lower-income uninsured families. Sounds like the plan the government wants to pass for the country. The plan was estimated at $472 million for 2008, yet the actual figures for that year were $628 million. They made some assumptions that proved incorrect. They assumed that as more people joined the system the premiums would go down across the board. They further assumed that as more people became insured the number of people visiting the emergency room would drop dramatically. They assumed this would save them money. It backfired! None of these things happened and the health care reform that was supposed to save money has cost more money than expected!
Similar budgetary problems have been seen in Federally run programs.
When Medicare, Part A was established in 1965, covering the hospital insurance portion of the program, the cost was estimated at $9 billion annually by 1990. The actual spending in 1990 for Part A was $67 billion.
In 1967 the new Medicare program was estimated at $12 billion for 1990. The actual Medicare spending for the program in 1990 was $110 billion.
A universal entitlement to kidney dialysis was enacted in 1972 at a cost of $100 million for 1974 and actual spending was $229 million for that year.
The DSH program established in 1987 which states use to provide relief to hospitals serving large numbers of Medicaid and uninsured patients was estimated at a cost of less than $1 billion in 1992. The actual cost for that year was $17 billion.
When Medicare’s home care benefit was changed in 1988 the projected cost for 1993 was $4 billion. The actual cost in 1993 was $10 billion.
Under the title of Public Health & Workforce Development are a number of grants, scholarships and other programs, providing training, services and a whole new array of studies relating to health care – a lot of money being spent to support the expansion of government, special interests, illegal immigrants and labor unions, but little to help solve the health care issues.
The first expansion is the establishment of the Public Health Investment Fund, which requires deposits from the revenues of the Treasury in the amount of $88,700,000,000 over 10 years. This money is authorized to be appropriated by the Committee on Appropriations of the House and Senate for carrying out the activities under the designated public health provisions. These areas include Community Health Centers, National Health Service Corps Program, National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs, Primary Care Loan Funds, Primary Care Education Programs, Nursing Workforce Development, The National Center for Health Statistics and the Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality.
To make these programs even more appealing is the stipulation that “Amounts appropriated under this section, and outlays flowing from such appropriations, shall not be taken into account for purposes of any budget enforcement procedures including allocations under section 302(a) and (b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act and budget solutions for fiscal years during which appropriations are made from the fund.” More spending without any concern for balancing the budget or controlling the country’s deficit. We don’t have it, but let’s spend it!
The first program – Community Health Centers – will obtain increased funding in the amount of $38,800,000,000.
The National Health Service Corps is being amended allowing the Secretary to issue waivers to individuals who enter into a contract for obligated service to pay for their education. It further raises the loan repayment amount from $35,000 to $50,000 and will be adjusted thereafter to reflect inflation. Additional appropriated funds for this program are $796,000,000 over the next 10 years. Additional funding is authorized in the amount of $3,171,000,000 over 10 years to cover the National Health Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs.
The Frontline Health Providers Loan Repayment Program will be established to address unmet health care needs in certain areas, populations, or facilities as designated by the Secretary. Individuals participating in this program must agree to serve for a period of 2 years in a health professional needs area specified in the program. This program has a clause that if there are an insufficient number of applicants for the program, then all excess funds from the program will be transferred to the National Health Service Corps to recruit more people to take advantage of this fund.
The Secretary shall establish a primary care training and capacity building program consisting of grants and contracts to plan, develop, operate or participate in accredited professional training in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics or geriatrics. Funds for this program are from the Public Health Investment Fund in the amount of $3,023,000,000 for 10 years and will include the following:
Capacity Building in Primary Care – grants to specialties of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics or geriatrics, with preference given to entities that train individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds.
Training of Medical Residents in Community-Based Setting – a program established for the training of medical residents in community-based settings, with preferences given to entities that support teaching programs addressing the health care needs of vulnerable populations or are a Federally qualified health center or rural health clinic, as well as preference to those training individuals from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged background.
Training for General, Pediatric or Public Health Dentists and Dental Hygienists – grants and contracts to plan, develop, operate or participate in an accredited professional training program or oral health professionals, with preference given to individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds.
Grants for Health Professionals Education – Advanced Education Nursing Grants is being amended, including increases in dollar amounts for the Nurse Faculty Loan Program. Funding for this program is $1, 450,000,000 over 10 years.
Top Democratic congressional leaders are at odds over whether to use unspent stimulus funds for emergency spending currently under debate in Congress.
My mom and dad used to take me and my siblings to Destin Florida each summer. It was a week that I always looked forward to and times I have remembered all my life. As I got older I returned to the Panhandle to enjoy the beautiful beaches, seafood and sun. I cannot believe my eyes at what I see happening from the oil leak. The people are losing their livelihoods. Tourism will dwindle to nothing. The photos of the animals stuck in the oily goo is heartbreaking. Even worse seeing those that have died. It is an ecological and environmental disaster and is going to an economic disaster. I hold BP responsible for the industrial accident. And honestly, despite their vast riches, I do not see how they make it out of this situation. I can appreciate how difficult it is to contain a leak a mile down in the Gulf. It shows just how limited our technology is when something like this beyond our resources to fully contain. You can bet that if deep water drilling is ever allowed again in the Gulf that simultaneous relief wells will be drilled, at huge expenses. With the huge insurance costs and regulations I just do not see how deep water drilling will return. That can be unfortunate as the amount of oil we will import will necessarily increase from our enemies. The number of jobs lost will number in the tens of thousands. And eventually we will be seeing it at the pump as the price of gasoline will creep back toward $4-5 a gallon. Oh happy days.
