May 22, 2008 —

Gallon of gas, $3.70

Royal Dutch/Shell oil exploration costs,  $1.5 Billion.

The actual truth from a Democrat, PRICELESS.

Just a reminder… nothing has changed.

WHAT IS MISSING FROM THIS LIST OF DECLARATIONS?

FEMA 2010 Federal Disaster Declarations

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Oil spill: worst environmental disaster in US history

Black blobs washing on sandy beaches, brown pelicans grounded with oil-covered feathers and fishermen looking for work have become common sights in national media since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the Louisiana coast 50 days ago, spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s right, 50 days and no mention of the Gulf oil spill.

Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida… soon the East Coast, the American economy, the current administration, where are these?? They all rank up there with the worst disasters in American history.

Simple, factual, and the glaring truth of the matter;

June, 8 2010, Obama Presidency – declared a NATIONAL DISASTER.

God, help us all…

Do you know who heads that, the Middle Class Task Force?

That’s Joe Biden. Obama appointed Biden to head the Middle Class Task Force.

They had a roundtable discussion on Wednesday.

Cybercast News Service:

“Heading up a Middle Class Task Force roundtable discussion on Wednesday, Biden said that one of the benefits of the $787 billion package signed into law in February is that it has generated new ideas for dealing with economic problems, including unemployment. Biden said he and Melody Barnes, White House Domestic Policy Council director, have talked at length about ways to ‘generate new ideas about how to deal with future employment needs. ‘We have new ideas about how to spend government money wisely.’

“He said that there was ‘virtually no fraud’ associated with the spending so far of the billions allocated for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The government, according to recovery.gov, has distributed just over one half of the $787 billion.”

The whole thing is fraud! “Virtually no fraud”? What a load of crap…

“‘I might add, I’m very proud to say, that’s there’s been virtually no — knock on wood — virtually no fraud associated with the $787 billion program overall,’ Biden said as he banged his fist on the table.

So we were only buying ideas. The stimulus was to give us “new ideas about how to spend government money wisely. It wasn’t to create jobs. Who knew?

Who the hell knew?

Last Monday in Washington, White House press briefing, US Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen spoke about the oil disaster. During the Q&A a reporter ask,

“Is there to this point, thought of whether the government can do more, can it push BP out of the way like Salazar said if it feels like the company’s not doing their job? What’s your response to that?”

ALLEN:

Well, to push BP out of the way would raise the question, “To replace them with what?”

REPORTER:

Do you think that this government right now is doing the best it can?

ALLEN:

I’ve been involved with the technical decisions made, especially in relation to the deal with the leak, and they are pressing ahead, we’re overseeing them, they are exhausting every technical means possible to deal with that leak.

So Salazar said if they don’t get it done we’ll just push ’em out of the way and we’ll bring in people with the appropriate action to get it done. Coast Guard says, “Replace them with what?”

He obviously was not aware of what Salazar had said at BP headquarters in Houston.  Last weekend, Bob Schieffer talked to Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary:

“Do you think this could be your administration’s Katrina?”

GIBBS:

Well, I think if you look back at what happened in Katrina, the government wasn’t there to respond to what was happening. That, quite frankly, was the problem, even tracking the hurricane for days and knowing fairly precisely where it was going to hit. I think the difference in this case is we were there immediately, we have been there ever since.

That is a LIE. They’re still not there.

The government did get there in the case of Katrina. They did get there as quickly as they could and the local officials told them to get out. Blanco said get outta here, I don’t want you guys getting credit for this, I’m a Democrat governor, I’ll take care of this. While School Bus Nagin was running around just beside himself here trying to explain why the buses weren’t used.

“The difference here is we were there immediately.”

They were not there immediately. And when they were there they sent Salazar and Carol Browner to survey the problem. The head guy, Tom Strickland – responsible for coordinating the federal response, was vacationing in the Grand Canyon and didn’t think it was serious enough to cut his trip short.

Obama is going on vacation for the second time since the oil spill happened and is reluctantly going to visit there on his way to vacation for the Memorial Day weekend and to check out the growing disaster.

Douglas Brinkley, on CNN with Anderson Cooper says,

“You have the secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, saying we’re putting the boot on BP’s neck. It doesn’t seem like there’s much pressure being applied to that boot if there’s any at all.”

BRINKLEY:

We haven’t had a bullhorn moment from President Obama, we haven’t heard the passion, and you know he’s sickened by all this. It’s a time we don’t need the cool collected Obama, we need the orator and the leader who’s emotive.

Who is famous for using the bullhorn?

Yeah, it’s Bush. George Bush at Ground Zero, 9/11, the bullhorn moment. The idiot, the dunce, the cowboy, all of those insulting things that were said about Bush.

How do you know that?  Does he act sickened by it? Or does he see an opportunity here to blame Big Oil, to stop offshore drilling, and to once again point the fingers at capitalism for being greedy and unkind, selfish, etc.

Is he really sickened by it? We need a bullhorn moment? We need a leader who’s emotive? You know Obama’s got it in him, we just know he’s got it in him, why doesn’t he show up?

Maybe that’s not who he is.

COOPER:

“It’s sort of fascinating, David, for a president who watched Katrina and saw the failures of the Bush administration, failures at the state and local level, for a president who saw that and was very critical of it, to now find himself in a situation in which he’s being criticized for the lack of response or lack of coordination is kind of stunning.”

GERGEN:

The critics who are saying this is sort of a coming Katrina in slow motion have a point. I’m very sympathetic with what the administration has — this is tough, it’s very tough. And President Obama clearly cares and we have to appreciate that. But it’s not enough simply to care; you’ve gotta take charge. And we’ve reached that moment in this crisis when I think he has to take charge.

He doesn’t act like he’s caring about it much. He doesn’t act like he’s sickened. If anything, he sounds angry that he is being distracted by this. As president, you sit there and say, how is this gonna get fixed? He wants it fixed so he can move on with the rest of his destructive domestic agenda.

This is all politically inconvenient and we’ve reached the moment in crisis, gotta take charge. He’s not a take-charge guy. He’s an organizer and a Chicago thug.

He’s not a leader.

CORRECTION:  UNION MEMBERS SENT HOME – NOT NON-UNION

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Obama visits Solar Panel Company in California today.

Mike Zapler Mercurynews.com

…in a boost to the Bay Area’s status as a hub of the cleantech industry, President Barack Obama will tour Fremont solar panel manufacturer Solyndra during a 19-hour swoop through the region next week. Solyndra received a $535 million federal loan guarantee last year to build a new solar panel manufacturing plant that now employs 1,000 workers, according to the White House. The Obama administration has touted the project as a major success story of the economic stimulus bill, which provided the funding. A second phase is expected to employ an additional 1,000 people, Solyndra officials have said.

Reported on the local bay station, KRON 4…

FREMONT (KRON) — Construction workers at the Solyndra Plant in Fremont will be spending the day at home Wednesday without pay as President Obama visits the company to praise its work on solar panels. Union workers have been told not to come back until Thursday because of security concerns associated with the President’s visit. Workers tell KRON 4’s Kate Thompson this day off means they won’t get paid. “It’s with no pay and we have no choice,” construction worker Adam Bracamontes told Kate. “We have to take a day off and come back Thursday. We don’t get to meet the President. We’re the workers and we don’t get to see him.” “I’m a little bummed because I would love to meet the President,” worker Rich Patten added. “We were told we had the day off so it is what it is.” KRON 4’s Gabe Slate reports the President chose Solyndra because it received stimulus funds to help create green jobs. Neither the company nor several unions returned Kate’s calls for comment on why the workers were losing a day’s pay for the President’s visit.

A few relevant facts…

U.S. Bureau of Labor:

In 2009, the union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union–was 12.3 percent, essentially unchanged from 12.4 percent a year earlier…

Solar energy makes up about 1% of U.S. energy production.

I can understand why Obama only wants Union members to attend his visit in Fremont. The only sectors of the economy actually benefiting from his policies are the unions and government workers.  So, why include the rest of us in his events?

Macmillan:

The First Black President is a critical and passionate reflection on the political and historical implications of an Obama administration concerning the issue of race in America.  Obama’s rise to political power has forever changed the contours of race relations in the country as many hail the new age of a “post-racial” society.

“Post-racial”, really??  More like “post-American.” When you divide the country by union membership, is that not destructive? Should we be looking for “Non-Union Members not welcome” signs popping up all over the place.

NON-UNION MEMBERS GO HOME
For this event, you should stay home without pay…
(DURING ONE OF THE WORSE ECONOMICAL TIMES IN HISTORY)
because our righteous leader is going to speak.

I understand he represents Unions and the public sector, but are you part of the 88 % of Non-Union workers in the United States or part of that 12% that is so cozy with our President?

My problem with unions is not representation.  My problem is the ideological orientation of government worker union leaders.  They are stripping the country and raping the country blind.  They are destroying the private sector where wealth is created.  The jobs for public sector government workers do not produce anything.  The taxpayers who are paying these people do not make anywhere near as much money as the people they are paying.  They support liberal socialist political causes and candidates which are creating great harm to the country, pure and simple.

I’m not even talking about the rank-and-file members in my criticism here. The dirty little secret here is too many union leaders have as much real concern for their workers as socialist communist leaders ever had for the proletariat.  They don’t care about them.  They care about themselves, ingratiating themselves with power.  SEIU is a microcosm of the Soviet Union, and Andy Stern is the MOST frequent visitor to the White House.

How much representation in the White House is the other 88% of the population getting??

Is 88% of the population a SECURITY RISK??

We all know the “stay home without pay,  if your Non-Union,” seems to be the current administration’s economic policy for the country.  Refer to the last 18 months…