Obama: Big Talk, No Action
Jul 4th, 2010 by The Outsider
Is Obama serious about the damage that the BP oil leak is causing the Gulf coastline? Read the following facts and decide!
The latest from FOX NEWS:
Note: “A Whale” is a Huge oil skimmer ship from Taiwan.
“The latest hopes are riding on a massive new skimmer to clean oil from near the spewing well in the Gulf of Mexico, while a local Louisiana parish’s plan to block the slick has been rejected by federal officials.”
“A Whale is being tested close to the wellhead because officials believe it will be most effective where the oil is thickest rather than closer to shore.
The ship arrived in the Gulf on Wednesday, but officials have wanted to test its capability as well as have the federal Environmental Protection Agency sign off on the water it will pump back into the Gulf, which will contain trace amounts of crude.
The wait has frustrated some local officials, who say the mammoth skimmer would be a game-changer in keeping oil from reaching vulnerable coastlines.
During a Thursday tour of the inlet to Barataria Bay, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said it was exasperating to have A Whale anchored offshore instead of being put to immediate use.
“They’ve used the war rhetoric,” Jindal said aboard a boat floating in oil-slicked waters near Grand Isle. “If this is really a war, they need to be using every resource that makes sense to fight this oil before it comes to our coast.”
The governor, who has been outspoken in his criticism of the relief effort, also criticized a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject a proposal by Jefferson Parish to build a series of rock dikes to protect the ecologically important Barataria Bay.
Parish officials were using a fleet of barges — dubbed the “Cajun Navy” — as temporary barriers to block the oil, but some was still seeping in. The Corps found that the dike plan was incomplete, lacking a designated agency to remove the barriers, a restoration plan for environmental damage and data to measure any such damage.
“The Corps took weeks to review the plan only to reject it today — and this denial is another unfortunate example of the federal government’s lack of urgency in this war to protect our coast,” said Kyle Plotkin, Jindal’s press secretary.”
Does all of this sound as though the Democrats and Obama are serious about the oil spill? Does Obama love America or does he hate America? Is he a leader or just a smooth talker? Does his action or in-action speak louder than words? How much more proof do we need to understand the difference between a “rock star” celebrity and a real leader? How did all of this possibly happen? I suspect it happened by our government schools and universities teaching our young that Socialism and Communism is just another good form of government and that Capitalism is bad. All I can say is: November, hurry up!