Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste

This concept, coined by Rahm Emanuel have been used repeatedly by the current administration to force through first one ill-conceived left wing scheme after another on an unsuspecting American people. Bailouts that funded their political cronys along with takeovers of major auto companies. These done in favor of their labor union buddies and at the expense of legitimate stock and bond owners. Non-stimulating “Stimulus Packages” that increase government power without truly stimulating the economy or creating real long-term new jobs. Health care power grabs which increases costs to the taxpayers while doing little or nothing to improve the long term status of health care. And this using accounting tricks to disguise the cost from the American people by providing ten years’ taxes to fund six years’ costs.

Now Obama is using scare tactics of the gulf oil spill to push through a totally unrelated cap-and-tax plan that is designed to enrich more of his cronys while advancing another huge government power grab designed to flood the government with money to finance its cockamamie schemes. When are the tax payers finally going to wise up? So far Obama has done absolutely nothing to help the people of the gulf in this major disaster and still seven weeks later apparently has no plans to do so. He only wants to use crisis after crisis to push more servitude on the people of the United States.

It has now surfaced that he refused to accept help with the oil cleanup offered by a number of other nations apparently in support of his union backers. Now seven weeks later he still refuses to exempt the cleanup from the restrictions of the Jones Act that precludes foreign ships from participating in the cleanup. GW Bush, whatever his shortcomings, did that right away after Katrina to allow the maximum help to the people of the Gulf coast. Obama has even withheld requested help from the governor of Louisiana in the construction of barrier sand islands to protect the marshes from the oil onslaught. Apparently this just because Gov Jindal doesn’t have a (D) after his name.

If the e-mails I have received from several South Louisiana residents are correct, he has even orchestrated photo opp “shows” by busing large numbers of “clean up crews” in white uniforms who have made a big show of picking up sludge on the beaches then leaving as soon as the cameras are gone. His actions make it appear as if he really doesn’t really want the crisis to end because that would end his ability to use it as a reason for implementing more of his ill advised legislation.

Even the late night comedy shows express dismay at Obama’s opportunism. Right after Obama’s oval office speech Leno stated, “President Obama said today he is going to use the Gulf disaster to immediately push a new energy bill through Congress. I got an idea … How about first using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster?”

It is hard to believe that the president of the United States does not have the best interest of the United States at heart, but how else can you interpret his cold hearted approach to the suffering of the people of the gulf coast? He wants to freeze offshore drilling for six months, a policy that will cost another 20,000 jobs in the area already being devastated by the spill and is directly opposite to the recommendations of the best scientific minds in the field. He wants to use this as an excuse to pass legislation that will raise the cost of energy drastically and make us even more dependent on foreign sources of energy. He wants this even though in his own words he has previously stated that, “. . . under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . “ What ever happened to his promise that he wouldn’t raise taxes on people who made less than $250,000 a year? Well I guess that was just rhetoric before a crisis-opportunity occurred.

Amazing! A late night comic is in better touch with the problems and the suffering of the people than the President of the United States of America. God help us all.