Saturday, 19 June 2010

Friday, 18th June 2010

Why did Obama turn down offers of help?

12:07pm

Amazingly, it looks like Obama deliberately exacerbated the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster to push his ideological agenda. Seems he actually refused offers of help from other countries to fix the bust oil well, refusing to waive the trade union-inspired protectionist legislation which normally prohibits such assistance from being taken  -- but which waswaived by President Bush over Hurricane Katrina, as  had been done by other Presidents in the past. Notes Hans Bader:

In April 2009, the Obama administration granted BP, a big supporter of Obama, awaiver of environmental regulations.  But after the oil spill, it blocked Louisiana from protecting its coastlineagainst the oil spill by delaying rather than expediting regulatory approval of essential protective measures.  It has also chosen not to use what has been described as “the most effective method

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