More on Energy Independence in America

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

And the rule of man above the rule of law (as in the extortion of the GM bond holders and BP executives).

Story one from this morning's news:

Canada wants to clean oil out of sand and create more domestic oil production.

Of course, "environmentalists are mounting a challenge."

http://home.myhughesnet.com/news/re...MH0FR01@news.ap.org>&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS

And on to story two, your government, drunk with power, majesty and crusading in an holy environmentalistic (which, by definition, contains an element of hate for business in general unless it's, you know, basket weaving, pottery, baking loaves of French bread...,) effort to "save" the planet and "small" business, 'cause they like their shrimp cocktails and votes.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The oil giant opened its checkbook while the crisis was still unfolding last spring and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Gulf Coast communities with few strings attached.

In sleepy Ocean Springs, Miss., reserve police officers got Tasers. The sewer department in nearby Gulfport bought a $300,000 vacuum truck that never sucked up a drop of oil. Biloxi, Miss., bought a dozen SUVS. A parish president in Louisiana got herself a top-of-the-line iPad, her spokesman a $3,100 laptop. And a county in Florida spent $560,000 on rock concerts to promote its oil-free beaches.

http://home.myhughesnet.com/news/re...ass&action=1&lang=en&_LT=HOME_USNWC39L1_UNEWS

In every case, communities said the new, more powerful equipment was needed to deal at least indirectly with the spill.

In many cases, though, the connection between the spill and the expenditures was remote, and lots of money wound up in cities and towns little touched by the goo that washed up on shore, the AP found in records requested from more than 150 communities and dozens of interviews.

Florida's tourism agency sent chunks of a $32 million BP grant as far away as Miami-Dade and Broward counties on the state's east coast, which never saw oil from the disaster.

Some officials also lavished campaign donors and others with lucrative contracts. A Florida county commissioner's girlfriend, for instance, opened up a public relations firm a few weeks after the spill and soon landed more than $14,000 of the tiny county's $236,000 cut of BP cash for a month's work.

I hope they at least got Springsteen...

 

[off2bed]

Well, if they can't redistribute the wealth via laws, this is an alternate method.

 

[RightField]

Good example of government running things. Waste and corruption (and I don't care if it is Democrat or Republican....put money into the hands of a politician and it surely will be abused in some way). The best way is to have a small government with limited powers. The framers of the Constitution knew what they were doing.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Good example of government running things. Waste and corruption (and I don't care if it is Democrat or Republican....put money into the hands of a politician and it surely will be abused in some way). The best way is to have a small government with limited powers. The framers of the Constitution knew what they were doing.

Amen and pass the plate; I need to make some change!

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You loot the private sector, strip every dollar of 40¢ for overhead, and then give the other 60¢ to your political base in order to revitalize the looted.

What's not to like about that plan?
A_J, the Stupid

 

[vrosej10]

Government mismanagement is par for the course. They all do it. Until we can find some better way to manage country, the madness will continue and this was surely madness.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Nowhere has a Democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders. It is only where responsibility can be learned and practiced in affairs with which most people are familiar, where there is awareness of one's neighbor rather than some theoretical knowledge of the needs of other people which guides action, that the ordinary man can take real part public affair because they concern the world he knows.
FA Hayek
The Road to Serfdom, Chapter 15 p. 234

 

[vrosej10]

Nowhere has a Democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders. It is only where responsibility can be learned and practiced in affairs with which most people are familiar, where there is awareness of one's neighbor rather than some theoretical knowledge of the needs of other people which guides action, that the ordinary man can take real part public affair because they concern the world he knows.
FA Hayek
The Road to Serfdom, Chapter 15 p. 234

We're having problems here with the amount of bureaucracy forming in the channels between state and federal government. There is talk about eliminating state governments to streamline matters.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

We're having problems here with the amount of bureaucracy forming in the channels between state and federal government. There is talk about eliminating state governments to streamline matters.

That's getting the solution bass ackwards...

 

[vrosej10]

That's getting the solution bass ackwards...

Well we are dealing with politics. Things are gunna suck no matter what happens. A change of obnoxiousness might be interesting, like changing out of your cactus lined pants into a pair filled with fire ants.

 

[off2bed]

That's getting the solution bass ackwards...

Eliminating "middle management" only results in a bloated, overworked, and unaccountable "upper management." The low end is only capable of managing themselves, which is how it should be.

 

[off2bed]

Well we are dealing with politics. Things are gunna suck no matter what happens. A change of obnoxiousness might be interesting, like changing out of your cactus lined pants into a pair filled with fire ants.

This is why you limit the suckage by limiting the government. The more power you give them, the less you have for yourself. Don't put on cactus pants when you can put on a cactus Speedo.

 

[vrosej10]

This is why you limit the suckage by limiting the government. The more power you give them, the less you have for yourself. Don't put on cactus pants when you can put on a cactus Speedo.

That might be so.