Jobs Float Away: Economy Rigged for Failure
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Even though a judge slapped down the Obama administration’s drilling moratorium, and the ruling was upheld on appeal, the administration has pledged to continue on until they find a way to halt offshore drilling — purportedly until the cause of the Deepwater Horizon accident can be determined (which is like banning all trans-Atlantic crossings until we can figure out exactly why the Titanic sank).
Since no company will invest money to prepare to drill during an appeals process that remains unpredictable, rig owners are bound to leave for greener pastures, and they’ll take the jobs with them.
The first rig is already leaving the Gulf:
Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling.
And the Ocean Endeavor’s exodus probably won’t be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.
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“As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed,” Dickerson said. “We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation.”
Too bad our own president and others who derive political power through increased dependency on government don’t feel the same way (a good example of the liberal definition of “fiscal responsibility” is spending trillions on government health care nobody wanted and then creating the economic conditions where everybody is forced to use it so the money isn’t completely wasted).
How could Team Obama be convinced to keep those rigs in the Gulf? Short of disguising oil rigs as offshore golf courses, mosques, US Muslim Space Agency headquarters or floating Planned Parenthood Superstore outlets, I can think of nothing that might entice the current administration to want to keep them right where they are.
As our demand for oil shows no immediate sign of waning, we’re watching jobs sail off into the sunrise, where workers from another country will be paid to drill oil that may ultimately be sent right back to the US and poured into Al Gore’s private jet — all while being placated by claims that it’s okay because at some point in the next 25 years our cars, furnaces and industries will be powered by kumquats and solar panels built with taxpayer dollars given to labor unions and the family member of a corrupt congressman. I’m skeptical of success.
Update: Don’t sweat any of this — apparently we’re all about to die anyway.
Somebody please pass the bacon-stuffed deep fried Twinkies.
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What I can’t understand is, this bho and team are giving bids for 1.8 m acres of oil and gas leases in AK up for bid to be in Aug. 11. Why is he closing the gulf, but allowing bids in AK? There seems to be as much oil and gas in the gulf as there is in AK.
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If he did both, we could maybe quit buying so much from people that are trying to kill us.
As I was reading that sentence I began laughing uncontrollably.
I guess laughing’s better than weeping.
I think Tipper is getting the jet in the divorce.
BHO is the Anti-Christ and his whole agenda is to destroy the United States.
Yes, he IS the Anti-Christ. He is a Demon from hell walking the Earth in Human form. I really believe this.
There is a constant theme in all of Obama’s responses to the crises he exploits: getting bogged down in uncertainty.
There IS no moratorium in effect at the moment but the uncertainty of whether the feds will be filing one appeal after another makes keeping those rigs in place too expensive. The Diamond rig being moved to Egypt will be available again in 2011 but it could be producing here today.
It’s the same thing with job creation in America. Despite the fact that non-bank corporations are as solvent and capitalized as they have ever been, they are amassing cash rather than invest in future growth because no one knows what the “new rules” are. The most important details of Obamacare are still largely a big mystery but as details come out, they are always major negatives that amount to big whopper lies on the part of Obama/Pelosi and all Dems/Reps who voted for it. (What happened to the big “appeal Obamacare” campaign? Ryan? Anybody?)
The financial system reform bill amounts to nothing more than the creation of a monstrous new bureaucracy not guided by a clear system of new laws but by a political mandate to make it up as they go along. Dodd’s quote about having to wait to see how it works out says it all. Enacting good intentions is now good law. We need the clarity of specific rules. Regulators should be enforcing laws, not making them based on….. what?
Same with Middle East policy, Iraq and Afghanistan. For a president who believes in holding hands as partners in a world of global citizenry, how about making it clear where America stands? All Obama has communicated is that he can’t even be trusted to protect his own country’s interests. He is a very dangerous ally which makes him dangerous period. It was the policies of arguably the weakest and worst president ever, Woodrow Wilson that made WWII inevitable.
Yet, the GOP sits around twiddling its thumbs while foolishly awaiting November. How about defining a party platform? Here in CA, the RNC is backing Meg Whitman who is waging a Spanish campaign bashing AZ SB1070 and suggesting a promise of working for amnesty. Ditzy Carly Fiorina is just working on “girl power” when not getting test about her failure as CEO of HP.
If we can’t get any spine in THIS Republican party before November, God help us.
Get real, people. He’s not The anti-Christ. He’s Chauncey Gardner.
His teleprompter is the anti-Christ.
Correction
(What happened to the big “
appealrepeal Obamacare” campaign? Ryan? Anybody?)Political parties are always twiddling their thumbs. It’s individuals like Jim DeMint and Paul Ryan who make a difference, driving the thumb twiddlers in the necessary direction.
Get enough DeMint’s and Ryan’s elected, and the party place holders will move in the direction they have to move in order to keep feeding at the trough.
Polls are making it clear that despite widespread and still growing voter antipathy to Democrats, most Americans still blame the Bush administration for the state of the economy. For the GOP to coast into November without a clear and credible platform is major blunder.
When Americans discover that they just re-elected the very same people that angrily ousted in 2006 and 2008 and still led by the Gangs of McCain, the hopelessness will be palpable. I am growing resigned to it and preparing my arguments for a 3rd party starting this November.
If we can’t get rid of McCain and refuse to see what Sarah Palin is the new face of the same GOP one-world-without-borders establishment, what hope is there for the GOP? Why should we even bother with that party anymore?
Pasadena Phil, that’s a very good analysis of the failure of this administration.
I owe you a beer!
Actually, you owe Betsy a beer.
“Yet, the GOP sits around twiddling its thumbs”
That is simply not true. It is WAY not true.
Shall we start to list all the bills and amendments Republicans have attempted to introduce over the last year that were shot down by the “majority”?
Your bias is getting in the way of the facts there Phil.
Because DeMint and Ryan are still in it.
People are what matter. Individuals. Quit obsessing about the uselessness of the thumb twiddlers.
Your attacks on the GOP as GOP nominees like Angle are fighting to defeat slime like Reid brings me back to questioning your real agenda.
The Marxists love relentless GOP bashing.
They do not care about the oil pouring into the water. If anyone wanted to stop it, it would’ve been done by now. It is a disaster, yet the campaigning goes on, the golf, the court cases for ridiculous items, the appeals for the denied cases, so on and so on. The oil keeps flowing & no one askes why it has been months without abatement.
But I’ll bet they know that Obama was in Nevada for Harry Reid.
Talk about childishly naive. What you are citing is pointless grandstanding. Why didn’t they propose those bills when they were in the majority? All they are doing is running up their ACU ratings supporting legislation that has no chance of passing. They may all manage to maintain 90%+ ratings, but that 10% is when they vote for breakthrough liberal legislation.
Shall we start to list all of THOSE bills and amendments?
Your “Republican uber alles” RINOism is getting in the way of the facts there jsm.
“What happened to the big “appeal repeal Obamacare” campaign?”
In full swing and very much in play.
Several of the states that were going to file law suits, some have.
Do you think the media is going to splash that kind of news all over the place Phil?
A key piece of the repeal push is to win majorities this fall so when seated in 2011 the repeal of Obamacare can being. Is it fall yet?
Secondly, the coming push by the left to pass all sorts of stuff when lame ducks needs to be a focus to prevent legislation. Preventing legislation is the full time job of our Republican Rep/Senators at this point. Not waving at the air as if having no purpose.
You are a grumpy libertarian Phil. Get over yourself or get on meds, I don’t really care. What I do care about is your gross misrepresentation of what the Republicans are doing. Is it enough? Nope. Need to see more. But it not being enough is no where near the same as they are doing nothing.
BTW, do I have to point out that Paul Ryan, despite vowing to work for the repeal of Obamacare, dropped that campaign the very next day. He supports “repeal and replace” because he believes much of Obamacare makes sense. My ambivalence over Ryan grows every time I read what he says the day after he makes national headlines. I hope I am wrong. I sure was wrong about neo-RINO Sarah Palin.
“RINOism”
That the best you got Phil?
All we have to do is look at the list of amendments and legislation that have been attempted to be introduced and your inaccuracy is clear.
And in the face of the facts, you resort to name calling?
Kinda sad Phil. Kinda sad.
But if you are trying to make the case that you are indeed a grumpy libertarian, well then, I guess I see your point.
“repeal and replace”
A very Conservative notion. I am also for “repeal and replace”.
If we don’t replace it with something that is conservative in nature then we are doing nothing positive.
Replacing Obamacare legislation with legislation that is effect and conservative in nature is exactly what we need to do.
So yes, “repeal and replace”, MOST excellent idea!
By the way Phil, each of your posts that do nothing more than bash Republicans based on your misrepresentations does little to further how your posts are perceived.
Calling people RINOS is as I noted yesterday, simply boring.
What you are describing is a largely bipartisan state effort by several states who will be bankrupted by Obamacare.
If the GOP was actively waging a campaign to repeal Obamacare, it would be part of their daily talking points and formalized in their party platform. Go to any Republican website and see if you can find it mentioned. And since no prominent Republican is waging the battle, what exactly is the MSM supposed to report? Do you see it reported in the conservative blogosphere? No!
That’s the problem with being a RINO, desperate rationalization of a hopeless case turns into a security blanket because you cannot accept that you are a die-hard supporter of the LA Clippers. It is unfathomable for true fans to understand why anyone would waste a cent or a second supporting that team. Same with the GOP.
Wake up and smell the coffee. You are defending a team that is counting on suckers like you to stay in the league. Come November, we may be forced to kick that team out of the league.
So Phil, should we not “repeal and replace”?
“That’s the problem with being a RINO”
So this is the plan today Phil? Name calling?
Enjoy the day as your world continues to shrink in on you.
What scares the daylights out of me, after the Nov. elections the d’s and the good ole boy r’s(that didn’t get re-elected) will push everything under the sun they want to pass from day one. Every single one of these will vote for the bills! It would not surprise me one bit for every bill to have amnesty stuck in the bill someplace in the 2000 to 3000 page bills! A GREAT deal of damage can be done after the Nov. elections by both parties to our Republic!
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Repeal and replace? Do you have inside knowledge of what the RINOs are suggesting Obamacare should be replaced with? No one else does.
The health care problems facing us are surmountable if we just made sensible grown-up modifications to the current system. Social Security is NOT a retirement plan. If it were up to me, I would raise the minimum age to claim full benefits to at least 72, preferable 75. I would force all government employees to contribute commensurate to their income levels which are now double the average earning of the private sector.
We are a society hooked on unnecessary drugs. I am 57 years old and yet I am the only adult I know who is not taking any medication at all. How can that be? Everyone I know has an allergy or ADD or other condition making them dependent on constant medication.
The current system may be a mess but it is fixable. Let’s grow up and fix it.
Just holding my breath until the first major land-based rig mishap occurs and Obummer finds a way to halt drilling there as well, thus putting me and most of my fellow West Texans out of a job.
If you don’t like RINO, how about “Republican Uber Alles”? If the shoe fits…..
Or you could instead address the arguments I am making by counter argument. Exclamatory sentences declaring that I am wrong and figuratively rolling your eyes in disbelief as if my points are not worth addressing…. what is that?
Are you here to engage in intelligent and informed discussion or merely to make sure that none gets going?
Also the RINO’s who did get reelected.
And the media will all applaud the ‘courage’ of the outgoing Congress in passing those ‘important’ bills before the ‘teabagger demagogues’ take over the House and are able to block Obama from ‘moving America forward.’
The die will be cast, and Obama will have the veto power to block any attempts to undo the damage.
Then some time over the next couple of years there will be horrific terrorist attacks on America and Obama will invade some country, and the media will be calling in one loud voice for us to ‘rally around the President in this time of crisis.’
The American electorate is going to get exactly what it deserves.
JS isn’t a RINO, Phil. Calling someone who is voting for JD against McCain a RINO is ridiculous.
Good. You get support rolling for a Third Party, and say hello to continued Demonrat control of Congress and a second term for the Devil in the White House.
Third Party… What a load of Horse Sh!t!
NOTHING else matters except getting rid of Satan’s representative in the White House! NOTHING! N*O*T*H*I*N*G!!!!!
jsm is always blindly defending the GOP no matter what. That he is going to vote for Hayward doesn’t offset the many times he has attacked me with nothing but name-calling and obnoxious questions. In the end, he defends the GOP no matter what.
I know the difference between disagreements and frivolous attacks. Jsm falls under the latter. He never EVER agrees with me no matter what I say. I take it as a compliment because I have to conclude that my arguments must really put a scare in him so he makes it personal. So be it. I usually ignore him but today, he provided me an excellent opportunity to make my points for everyone else.
I don’t come here to win arguments. I welcome counter-points. I don’t know everything and can be persuaded. Many commenters here give me plenty to think about. I wish jsm would try to be one of them instead of being a knee-jerk Republican loyalist.
Mother earth is about to let a fart? Someone let Al Gore know about this. We need to focus our attention away from cow methane flatulence and over to Earth’s azz in the Gulf of Mexico. If we all are gonna die, at least hold a peace vigil with cigarette lighters on the beaches.
Yeah, better to keep voting for the Assistant Democrats, the “lesser” of the same evil. How do you think we got into this mess in the first place? So many of us keep making arguments about the constitution but why won’t we use it? Nowhere in the constitution does it say that there will be ANY parties no less than there have to be two and that they must be these two parties. Let’s use our constitutional rights!
Those of us who don’t like either party outnumber both parties. We already have a second party. Let’s merge the Democrats and Assistant Democrats, stop pretending that we have two parties, and introduce a new second party, one that is already leading in the polls.
It’s all in the mind. We don’t have to storm any fortifications or kill anyone. We only need to muster the courage to place a mark on the ballot that is not a Democrat or Republican. How hard is that? Surely, someone with a moniker containing “thunder” can muster up the courage to take that kind of a risk?
Clarification for those who wonder what Obama’s agenda could be.
“jsm is always blindly defending the GOP no matter what.”
Sorta like I endorsed McCain?
Phil you are a one note song. There is not counter point to your posts. Just ONE note, same note, over and over and over.
jsm, then ignore me like I ignore you. Over and out.
Dem governors join with GOP governors to do the job that DC Republicans won’t do.
Do you agree that we should repeal and replace is an “obnoxious question”?
Maybe because answering it is difficult for you as it exposes your hypocrisy Phil? That make it obnoxious?
As already stated Phil, please feel free to join the libertarian party. You belong.
We Republicans will move to take majorities this fall and the Whitehouse in 2012. We’ll do just fine without you and the other folks like you who are just grumpy and negative and have deluded themselves into thinking they matter. I can assure you, you don’t matter and we’ll do fine without your negative mindset.
You offer nothing but criticism and in much of your criticism of Republicans, you get it wrong as noted in this thread.
“The country is headed in the right direction!” — BHO.
Folks, Barry isn’t fumbling his way along. This is out and out purposely driving this country into abject 3rd world poverty to the point that it matches his view that there is no such thing as American exceptionalism.
like I ignore you.
Huh? You ignore me?
Geez Phil, get some help. You’ve accused AZ and TX of being worse then California but we’re in denial, you completely misrepresent the activity of Republicans AND you define what you do as ignoring me?
Wow.
This is worth posting again…
Mallard Fillmore
That may have worked 15 years ago. Too late Phil. Our enemies are inside the wire. They control the White House the DOJ, the EPA, the TSA, Education, the house, the Senate, the FCC, the Department of Labor etc. etc. etc.
Unless you have been a zombie the last 18 months has been more than just a tad of a change that has occurred.
The people in these positions are not Sam Rayburn, Mike Mansfield, Paul Tsongas, Hubert Humphrey, or John Kennedy Democrats; liberals who were patriots. They are with exception of the Secretary of Defense, uncompromising Marxists who openly admire Castro, Chavez, Stalin, and Chairman Mao. They hate our system of government, our way of life and any American who opposses their Marxist vision.
In short, if they had the power you and I would be in a reeducation camp. That is the nature of the threat and that threat currently has its tentacles on every facet of the government.
You embark on a third party now, there will be no Republic left by the time you defeat your blood enemy the GOP.
I will raise another point. We have troops in the field. If you want 58,000 more names on another wall who died not being allowed to win then lay the groundwork for letting Democrats command our troops in a war.
Not gonna happen on my watch. But you do your thing.
There is little doubt what this Marxist anti-American white hating cretin is up to. Watch Rev Wright’s box set and get the details.
Payback ….
I think the Republican party is slowly getting cleaned up from the inside out. Tea Party and these blogs help a lot. It won’t be done over night so we may be in for some more RINO activity.
For now, the Key is to get to know who is running in your local and state elections. Support and vote your conservatives in. They are the ones who likely will advance to national offices. Know your candidate!
Two thumbs up. Well said.
Thanks Fly.
Awh heck! I just think it’s time to buy more guns!
Phil…this is the kind of post by you that really disturbs me. You don’t seem to like ANY of the current Republicans. Even a conservative like Ryan gets your blasts. Yes, we do have to hold them accountable. But if you don’t like even someone like Paul Ryan, you won’t like practically ANYONE. Politicians are, by their very nature, imperfect!! And you won’t agree 100% with ANY of them. You have to decide who most closely fits your beliefs. That’s all we have. Perfectionism isn’t going to win our country back.
Don’t mind Phil. He called me a troll once. And also a RINO. I got mad at him. But that is just who he is. Kind of a Jeckyll/Hyde personality. One day he makes great sense and has fabulous posts, and the next day he goes off on everyone. We have to take Phil as he is…a bit of a split personality, but can be rather lovable at times.
Let’s see. Every aspect of our economy hates uncertainty. If our economy stays a failure, Obama can impose more fascist measures to save us from ourselves and consolidate power in the process.
As far as the whole GOP/third party thing, you’re beginning to sound like the Bizarro Thomas. He preached blind allegiance to the GOP. You’re preaching the exact opposite. Here’s an idea. Let’s vote out Democrats.
And one more thing…I agree that Barack Hussein Obama is evil. I don’t use that term lightly. He is full of evil and it exudes out of every pore in his body, shows on his face and in his scary little eyes. He has purposely delayed protecting our coastlines in the Gulf and has cost thousands of families their livelihoods. Purposely. There can be no other explanation for it…unless you believe he is that incompetent, and I don’t happen to believe that. He WANTS to destroy our industries and give them away to other countries. He is destroying our sovereignty and our very way of life. HOW DARE HE?? Treason is too mild a word for what he is doing. I want him impeached and imprisoned! If the media would start doing its job, the truth would come out in all its ugliness for the world to see. I do think the sh#t is hitting the fan, but only little pieces of it. Things don’t stink bad enough yet for the masses to notice. But I can smell it all the way from DC to Minnesota!
“Let’s vote out Democrats.”
The problem with these grumpy old men, they remind me of Walter of Jeff Dunham fame, is that in their panties in wad imaginary purity they end up with Democrats staying in power AND acting like its a good thing cause after all, the grumpy old men, they didn’t compromise.
Its a self rewarding dysfunctional behavior indicative of folks who are too full of themselves.
All one has to do to see this dysfunctional behavior on display is watch the inevitable lambasting that goes along with my stating I’ll be voting for McCain in the fall if JD loses here in Arizona.
These tightly wound negative grumpy old farts can stay home. We don’t need them. We need folks who understand conservative ideas and can bring constructive conservative concrete plans of action to the table. Not folks who excel and criticizing and judging anyone who doesn’t also have their panties all in a wad.
You can’t reason with Phil. He’s frustrated and looking for somebody to blame, and it’s easiest to just blame everybody but the one in the mirror. In his twisted world, Texas and Arizona are somehow responsible for Fiorina and Whitman, Boxer and Feinstein, and probably Ahnold too.
Just wait till the price of oil skyrockets and then look at the impact on jobs and the economy. Bho may not have any income to redistribute. He is proving to be stupid enough to believe that socialism will work here when it has failed every other place. He might just prove that it will fail better and more severely here. I just hope that we can get the country going again after Bho’s out.
Answer:
REVOLUTION!
I’m confused. I haven’t registered Repulican in ten years, and I voted for McCain ’cause he calls us his friends and I like having a friendly guy in the White House. But how can I be a RINO if I’m not a Republican? Maybe I’m a IINO or a CINO but can’t figure out what a real conservative is by Phil’s definition – and I’m not Libertarian, so maybe I’m a Con-trarian! Oooo, that sounds bad. And if all Republicans are now really liberals, wouldn’t a conservative be a RINO and a genuine Republican now be liberal? I’m glad folks like Phil are around to tell us how stupid we are and figure all this difficult stuff out for us. My brain hurts.
Perhaps we should SUE the Obama administration for waiving the required environmental studies. It is all his fault.
Me, I think I’ll make a bacon explosion, twinkies just aren’t real food, more of a chemical cake.
So the goal of the Obama administration is to turn us into Soviet Russia?
Shut down the coal mines so we have no electricity. Shut down the oil wells so we have no fuel for transportation.
Might as well get the bread lines started now.
Ooops, can’t do that M. Obama has declared bread as fattening.
That is the net effect. However the goal is to entrench them in power indefinately. They cannot get rich and powerful in the private sector. This is their ticket to the “good life.”
That was the sick joke about the Soviet system. It was an entire society enslaved and forced to live miserable lives so a small number of ruling elites could live in luxury.
Barry wants his rightful wealth and some degree of modest benefits (crumbs) for his supporters and all of us dependent on the system. He and his ilk will be living in luxury, playing golf and eating the best of foods. The rest of us will be eating the Michele Obama approved diet and huddling in our cold homes, because our energy costs will be astronomical.
As MM says, it’s all about the boodle.
Ever wonder what those 2000 page incomprehensible bills that no one reads, is all about? A little history … In 1933 Germany passed the Enabling Act … The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was passed by Germany’s Reichstag and signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step, after the Reichstag Fire Decree, through which Chancellor Adolf Hitler legally obtained plenary powers and established his dictatorship. It received its name from its legal status as an enabling act granting the Cabinet the authority to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag for four years.
America’s Enabling Act, sold piecemeal.
Doug, I gushed when I saw your headline. That was pretty slick.
I prefer the optimistic outlook. BP screw up is a blessing in disguise. Instead of one huge explosion that could have happened because the Methane was increasing and building up pressure, BP drilling created a relief valve effect.
This would be humorous alarmism weren’t for fact that SO many science-illiterates, Greens and (worst of all) left-leaning teachers haven’t bought into this as a reason/excuse totally shut down oil and coal around the world for windmills and (non-winter zone?) solar panels and burn-what-you-can-eat biofuels. It doesn’t help that the public gets a lot of their “science education” from the likes of The Science Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and National Geo (add Weather Channel?) with their dated, biased and uncritical green agendas. I hope we have pols sharp enough to head this global warming revivial move off at the pass.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
This is another means to foce us to drive coal powered cars AKA plug in electric cars. 57% of electric power is produced by coal powered electic plants, so a plug in system is driving a coal powered car. Besides the lunacy of this, we will have to spend gazillions putting sockets in parking lots because these obamamobiles can’t get from suburbia to business centers and back on one charge. TYPICAL PIE IN THE SKY PROFESSORIAL BS. Obambi was in KC last week to hype an electric truck. The part he didn’t tell folks about was that the company got 32 million to build these glorified golf carts, which cost twice as much as the competitive trucks, BEFORE YOU PUMP ELECTRICITY INTO THEM AND REPLACE THE BATTERIES.
I wonder how these liberals are going to feel about their most perfect and exalted one when the gas stations are closed and they are wondering why their tv, stereo, computer, and Jack LaLanne Power Juicer won’t turn on.