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2011-01-14 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 OPEC oil hit $100 today. High energy prices in WINTER during a recession with rising food and commodities as well as inflation in the currency. This will double dip this nation a plunge too far.
This will devastate the US on all levels, starting with the poor.

Democrats, always looking over their shoulder at the "little guy".
You enslaved the United States to un-friendly actors, and did not even "bat an eye".

You are not a President, Obama, you are a slave owner.

No quarter, no Heaven.

Posted by newc 2011-01-14 00:13|| 2011-01-14 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 untold damage to the region's fragile eco-system

We gotta have fewer people - say, one per square mile; hunters and gatherers, grass and berries, loincloths.

But then global warming will go away and you'll have to wear furs, so gotta move further south.

And these folks think they're progressive?

Posted by Bobby 2011-01-14 06:20|| 2011-01-14 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Ima awaiting a citizenship reversal.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-01-14 08:02|| 2011-01-14 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm surprised he didn't shut down all deepwater drilling.

It's no longer a moratorium, but it never had to be - that was just political posturing. It IS still an effective moratorium, because I don't think they are approving new drilling permits yet. (The only active deepwater drilling I am aware of are water injection wells or sidetracks of existing wells.) While we dither, rigs, crews, support boats, services all move to Brazil or Angola, so even if our government does figure out what to approve the means to drill it anytime soon won't be there.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-01-14 09:03|| 2011-01-14 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Here is an argument that I find works well with my liberal friends (which is to say, causes them to become red-faced with anger as they search for a way to counter it) --

I first point out the potential environmental problems with drilling. They're with me on that.

I then point out that because we won't drill in our own country, we have to buy oil from elsewhere. Yes, they acknowledge that.

Which means, then, that these other countries take on all of the environmental risk. Hmmm, they don't quite know how to respond.

Especially when I sweetly ask them who they think is better at protecting the environment, the US EPA or the Nigerian EPA.

In all seriousness, the position of the progressive Democrats is just another form of modern-day imperialism: we take resources from the rest of the world and give them increasingly worthless dollars in return.

Posted by Steve White 2011-01-14 09:11|| 2011-01-14 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Bobby: "And these folks think they're progressive?"

You are forgetting the important, unspoken but understood clause in all Progressive beliefs: present company excluded.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2011-01-14 10:22|| 2011-01-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Oil comes from Arabia. Keep it that way!

Wonder if anyone's ever done any research as to how much Saudi money flows into the coffers of the radical-green groups...seems to me the Soddies and the Watermelons (green outside, red inside for the uninitiated) would be natural allies.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-01-14 11:00|| 2011-01-14 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Steve I have had the same discussion with the same results. It works not because it is sneaky or slanderous, but because it is absolutely true.

Think the Chinese or Cubans could or would give a crap, other than an apology, if one of their rigs goes ballast up off the coast of Florida?

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-01-14 12:41|| 2011-01-14 12:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Are the oil rigs still in the gulf? These are expensive to lie idle. Have they moved on to the highest bidder? Just asking.

The progressives could care less about the little guy other than his or her vote. They are just more hypocritical and self-righteous about things. I don't think they would have many qualms about imposing tyranny on citizens if they could. Oh, come to think of it they have: health insurance, higher taxes, higher gasoline prices, gun control, speech, broadcasting, and environmental restrictions on just about everything moving and stationary.

When I think of progressives, I tend to think of George Soros, Frances Fox Pivens, Bill Ayers. There are others. Frances Fox Piven appears to be a person advocating for the downfall of this country by any means--violence if necessary.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-01-14 16:48|| 2011-01-14 16:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think they are approving new drilling permits yet.

Honest question, if not in USA teritorial waters, why does O'shit have ANY say at all?

Doesn't seem government has ANY say.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-01-14 22:22|| 2011-01-14 22:22|| Front Page Top

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