The gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has people all over the country wringing their hands and asking, “How will we ever pay for all this clean up?” And I’m sure most of them have heard Obama’s slithering Chief of Stash, Rahm Emmanuel, saying “A crisis should never be wasted.”
Therein lays the scenario which will surely do three things;
First: Provide a reason for approving legislation that is tailored to create enormous tax increases for ALL Americans, with the alibi that the money will be needed to clean up the mess and restore the lands affected negatively by the oil spill.
Second: Those excessive and elephantine sized tax increases will provide such a plethora of money that through the usual Obama chicanery and falsehoods, gigantic amounts can and will be skimmed off the top and used to steal the elections in November 2010; possibly even into the 2012 presidential elections.
Third: Obama in his sincere gratitude to the sleaziness and unconscionable guiles of Emmanuel will send him off with a bonus worthy of a Shah’s ransom.
The only real benefits in all this is that the Gulf Coast states and their residents may get a land restoration package to some small degree and we the people will get rid of Rahm Emmanuel cancer in government.
The bad part of course is that we will be saddled with the lies, deceit and deceptions of the Obama Administration will be with us for an additional four years; plenty of time for him to rig the workings for a lifetime self-appointment as Dictator in Chief.
Speaking of lies and deceptions, AmeriPAC the American Political Action Committee released an internet message on June 21, 2010 giving us a warning along these lines calling it, “Obama’s GulfCare Plan: Tax-Tax-Tax”, saying that his “oil spill disaster plan: (is to) Impose New Energy Taxes on every American without a purpose… (and) create the largest tax increase in U.S. history.” AmeriPAC opined that the liberal Dems would use “the same emergency, closed door guerilla legislation tactics (used) to pass ObamaCare.
Much public speculation and comment has been widely reported over the Internet of the possibility of the entire event being a planned or contrived disaster. From the lackluster and lackadaisical response in the beginning to the very slow and near reluctance with which Obama and his Administration did begin to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation, such guessing was to be expected.
The gravity of the potential for destruction didn’t seem to dwell on the golf-playing, graduation exercise speeches that were carried out as if the happenings in the Gulf were minor in nature. He was almost nonchalant when playing his fiddle while the Gulf of Mexico was literally burning.
But this cat and mouse behavior was very possibly attributable to Emmanuel’s insistence to allow events to come to a head from which incentives could be ignited to take advantage and get a sympathetic approval of the public to pass the Cap and Trade legislation floundering in the Congress.
Behavior of this sort was alluded to in the AmeriPAC report as well which reported that “Obama first refused to reveal the exact number of barrels of oil leaking per day. Next he claimed it was 10,000, then 30,000… (up to) 60,000 barrels a day.” AmeriPAC summed it up saying, “Obama is purposefully not giving American's real numbers because he is afraid it will interfere with his grand scheme to tax us all until we can't live normal comfortable lives.”
I think that Obama’s behavior after his directionless beginning might possibly be even more contemptuous and AmeriPAC agrees with me saying, “Since the oil spill Obama has played 7 rounds of golf. He has blocked anyone or any country from helping us solve this mess. Obama refused to waive the Jones Act, which prohibits countries from bringing in resources to help us. In times of crisis, like Katrina, the Jones Act has been waived to help Americans in distress. Over 14 countries offered assistance and Obama told them to go away. Instead, Obama gave the cleanup work to his buddies, UNION WORKERS.”
That about says it all. And the sum total is that if we the voters let this Congress get away with passing that Cap and Trade humungous tax package then Obama, Emmanuel and all of Congress can say to us, “You asked for it.” But it will give us more incentives in November.
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
