The Constitution talks about oil drilling?
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Stop talking about jobs being lost in a murderous, hateful industry as a bad thing.
To those who complain that jobs will be lost in the offshore drilling business, "F*ck your jobs!" That goes double for burning coal & chopping down redwoods. Sorry roughnecks, but eventually you're going to have to find something else to do. Try building windmills. All that happens when they fall into the sea is a splash.
It's Washington gospel that jobs in the private sector are better than government jobs. But oil jobs are private & look at the toll this industry takes -- Cooking the planet, enslaving us to Saudi Arabia & killing animals.
If the government hired away all the 58,000 oil workers who work in the state of Louisiana & paid them their same salary to work repairing infrastructure & building solar panels, it would cost $5.5 billion dollars.
Yes, the oil industry creates jobs; so does the kiddie p0rn industry.
Imagine someone making the argument that business must be allowed to dump toxic waste straight into our waterways because treating is expensive & that will cost jobs & growth. Is that really any different than Haley Barbour talking about the need for continued deep water drilling?
Your job needs to go when it starts killing things. You can get another job. Jobs come & go, but once a species is extinct it's forever. Calling something "your job" doesn't make it sacred. Everything can't come down to money.
-Bill Maher, edited
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It's really sad that this administration, along with Congress, isn't proposing a Manhattan-project style jobs stimulus program for that region of the nation (along with the rest of the country), by seeding alternative energy development.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Why would the presidential panel ask Interior officials whether they had any say in the matter and whether individual rigs could get exceptions?
The panel is charged with finding out what happened. What is this mission creep on their part?
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The Gulf is fine?
Gulf Loop Current Stalls from BP Oil Disaster
Global Consequences if Current Fails to Reorganize
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About Gulf Oil Spill
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This, by the way, is a practical and tangible method for judging Obama and whether he's just another Iying, corrupt politician. This plan for how US taxpayer money is being spent in Afghanistan, the policy "for winning hearts and minds", is completely within Obama's power. This isn't something that's been left to the military to come up with on the fly. This is a policy that was thought through, worked out with top US think tanks and the Pentagon, the Defense Policy Council, with input from Congressional leadership, SoD, Sos, the VP, the NSA, the CIA, etc., and then pitched to Obama, and signed off on by him.
Obama doesn't even have the luxury that other presidents have had, of deniability due to ig.no.rance about life for the average citizen in a developing, impoverished muslim country that's being exploited by superpower (the US). Unlike our other presidents who come from lives of privilege or comfortable middle class, Obama lived the life himself in Indonesia.
So Rachel Maddow, Richard Engel (as well as the US military in Afghanistan) didn't stumble on an American plan for Afghanistan gone awry. This was always the plan meant to be implemented. It's only been secret to the American people.
About Afghanistan
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