Moratorium Is Bad For Our Security & Economy

[Irishwren]

I'd like to see Jindal debate Obama. He'd put Obama in his place sooooooo fast.

[dragonshead69]

@Irishwren I was there, Jindal is a very impressive speaker and I would love to see him tear obama a new one in a debate. Of coarse if they allowed teleprompters then the ones with thier arms up obamas ass would be the ones he would be debating and would still win.

[tejaspics]

Drill baby drill!

[mdonnelly1971]

I hope the Republicans nominate this dork. He doesn't want to stop the drilling at all. Just let it leak.

[dragonshead69]

@mdonnelly1971 your not to bright are you?

[desoto1961]

Obozo is so out of touch with the people of this country. And he does not care !!

[clayguy1]

only way to fix the mess Obama and his crowed have made worse since they took over.. is to elect someone like this straight thinking person to be President... We need to fire senators and congressmen

[hunt458]

All baloney. Rigs are not leaving and have made deals with major oil companies to stay. The reason everybody is so agreeable is due to the excessive new oil rigs that are being built and will be looking for work. The reason for the moratorium becomes clearer every day as new ways to cheat the system are revealed by congressional hearings with BP employees. And you can bet that if one is doing something wrong, they're all doing it wrong.

[blogegog]

It's been a loooooooooooooooong time since we've had a governor we could be proud of down here. It's good to finally have one. Let's hope he also does something about the 6% income tax.

[sl2k4u]

are you stupid Jindal, dont you see why there is a moratorium? because of the danger that another huge spill happens.....

[babbzz]

Theii tuuk ouur jooobs! theei tuurkyi iouir juuurbs

[MarkG45]

Jesus, it's like his brain is completely incapable of synthesizing ideas from two facts. Oil is destroying his state for the next quarter century from a offshore oil rig. Obama has placed a moratorium on offshore oil drilling.

[drinaldi2]

@MarkG45 Yes, Jesus can help, but I doubt you were actually using His name in that context, so forget it. There is a TIMING for things. Just b/c BPs rig blew doesn't AT ALL mean the others are going to suddenly follow suit. Louisianans are down - Obama just kicked them while they're down, but I believe it's a calculated blow. He's maximizing this situation to push his party agenda of pushing green. Yeah, I do believe he's that uncaring and opportunistic.

[MaBuSt]

WTF? you people wanna go back to work? stop looking for a job and create one. Start a business! 

[drinaldi2]

@MaBuSt You sound just like our President - you should be so proud!

[TruthCeeker333]

I'd vote for him.

[Xone7]

He isnt saying anything that hasnt already been said over the past 30 years. Zzzzzz...

[busterpratt]

Republicans talk about free markets but every time they get into power they let the giant corporations write regulations to keep competition out of the market.

You have failed Republicans you had your chance and got everything you wanted for 8 years. What we are seeing now with mine collapses, poisoned food, oil spills, bankers ripping us off, are the results of your "free markets". Free market doesn't mean whoever has the most money writes the rule.

[RaiderHater729]

@busterpratt Oh you believe the poor and the uneducated should run this country than?? Is that your solution? Money and power will always conquer the weak. Get on or get off.

[robinvan1983]

did he forget that he was hit by an oilspil? and that non of the oil companies have a better safety plan. 

[drinaldi2]

@robinvan1983 Honey - they were driven into a high risk drilling area by our beloved Environmental Protection Agency. Forget? His people are HURTING - they need income - the companies his people were working for aren't involved in BP's accident. They should be working. What - we're going to stop pumping oil here and buy from another country - not a good idea. Jindal's an intelligent, compassionate man. Look to Obama for ulterior motives and selective memory - not Gov. Jindal.

[robinvan1983]

@drinaldi2 i'll let you in on a little secret on what oil companies do. They get the oil from the gulf and sell it to the highest bidder globally. a very small percentage goes back to the US. Besides that. How many unemployed workers have the degrees to work on an oil rig? not so many and it isn't manditory to get workers from the US. They might not need so many.

[drinaldi2]

@robinvan1983 thanks for the education - the bottom line is still the same. A moratorium on drilling that wasn't causing a problem has caused Louisianans to lose more jobs - quite a few, dear - and they need an fully engaged, ready-to-help Americans President, which unfortunately we do not have at the moment.

[drinaldi2]

@robinvan1983 I believe Gov. Bobby Jindal knows what he's talking about, so whatever your "education" in these matters is, I'm going to take his word over yours. Many more Louisianans are without work b/c of the moratorium. His timing couldn't be worse. Those rigs aren't going to blow in sudden concert with BP's. He didn't have to add that kick while they're down.

[robinvan1983]

@drinaldi2 you do know that people that where hired in the gulf and are now banned for working are prolly being moved to other rigs? It is a specialist profession so it isn't like they can't use the workers somewhere else. It isn't a simple productionworker job where you get easily sacked. the estimated 10% of the population in state that is out of work aren't oil rig workers... not even a quarter of that percentage

[drinaldi2]

@robinvan1983 and "you do know" that Bobby Jindal is not just up there whining. He knows how many and cares about them -he's their voice. Do YOU know how many oil rig workers are out of a job today? Do you know of another rig that can just add a bunch of workers? There is a moratorium, so no rigs to employ them. And since they are a "specialty" what else will they do?

[robinvan1983]

@drinaldi2 simple math need only applied. count the 10% of the population in that state. that 10% isn´t all oil rig workers. So if there are more oil rigs.. then you don´t solve the 10% that is unemployed because they don´t have the degree. If you actually had an oil rig job then you know that oil rig workers are being sent to various oil rigs not just one where they work 30 years. google it. Besides my brother works for the upstream of shell he actually been on those platforms.

[dragonshead69]

@robinvan1983 dude you know nothing. I am a oilfield worker and you a spouting just what the libs are feeding you. do the math if a rig employs 200 people, you have 2 rigs thats 400 jobs. shut one down and you think you goin to put those 200 on the other rig. I mean really you should think about things before blindly listening to people who know nothing. I'm here now, it is bad and with the moritorium its about to get real bad

[robinvan1983]

@dragonshead69 i don't know which company your working but that is what Shell had done

[dragonshead69]

@robinvan1983 don't believe everything you are told, I know people who were laid off from Shell, and just about every other company for that matter. If you would be here you could see first hand. The media makes it sound like no big deal but it is. Name one industry that can say just shut down for 6 months and bounce right back like it is nothing, it just can't be done. Think about it

[dragonshead69]

@robinvan1983 A good friend of mine works for one of the largest offshore drilling companys. 2 of thier rigs have already signed contracts overseas, 8 more are in negotiation for overseas contracts and the other 2 are being hot stacked. Thier head office in Houston is being shut down and moved to Brazil. Usually the contracts are for 5 or mre years and require that you hire no more than 50% locals. As far as the office they will only keep essential people the rest get left. That's just one Co.

[drinaldi2]

@robinvan1983 I'm sorry - I just have to say it - you have no idea what you're talking about and should go join another discussion about another topic. Like Obama, you pretend to know something that you know nothing about. In his case, it's hurting a lot of good American families - at least this is a harmless blog, but you really need to stop flinging out baseless numbers and senseless logic.

[TheExecutiveDecision]

It is good to see a non-white republican. Lets hear the Obama supporters call Bobby Jindal a racist now. Why does anyone support Obama?

[LLORT3]

I think Jindal fundamentally lacks understanding of how the free market works. If a company doesn't want to come back to Louisiana, that is their own prerogative. It is not up to the President to create jobs or business in Louisiana; it is up to the businesses.

It is this lack of understanding of free market principles that concerns me not just about Jindal but about other Southern politicians, many of whom don't understand concepts like free market, globalism, and free trade.

[ksgolfer8]

@LLORT3 I think you lack the understanding that it was the douche-bag President that instituted the moratorium that caused the jobs to leave LA in the first place.

[LLORT3]

@ksgolfer8

It's a free market, if they don't like it they are free to get out of our country and do business elsewhere.

[drinaldi2]

@LLORT3 excuse me - are you defending the way Obama has handled this whole mess? And you REALLY think Barrack Hussein Obama is interested in free market, free trade and our global standing in these areas? Jindal wants his citizens to be productive again - he cares about THEM. Obama doesn't want to solve this problem - he wants to USE it to push his agenda. You either lack understanding of this president's agenda, or you're ok with it. God help us.

[LLORT3]

@drinaldi2

I am a socialist and I think Obama is too rightwing on this issue; I think he should nationalize BP instead of fining them.

[drinaldi2]

@LLORT3 Do you live in America? And you really want America to become a Socialist nation? The blind lead the blind and they both fall in a ditch. Go for it. At least there's a good sized group of Americans who still believe that the great experiment has worked and it can continue to work as long as people who are not into living on the dole and controlled by the government don't win in our elections. You all woke a bunch of people up - I'll give ya that. See you at the polls.

[LLORT3]

@drinaldi2

I think the experiment of capitalism was great for a time but now we are seeing that it will only sustain the rich, not the middle class and especially not the poor.

I think USA is ready for socialism.

[dragonshead69]

@LLORT3 socialism has failed in every country was in and the ones using it now are failing as well. Please prove me wrong no one has yet or I should say no country has yet. Capitalism works fine if ran right but we have ran it to socialized for the past 60 or more years.

[LLORT3]

@dragonshead69

It runs fine in my home country of Israel. I think people should be cared for from birth until death, it is the Judeo Christian value of social justice that I think USA needs to embrace. We Jews embrace it.

[dragonshead69]

@LLORT3 As Becker puts it, "nowhere is the failure of socialism clearer than in the radical transformation of the Israeli kibbutz." If a socialist experiment could ever succeed, it should have done so in this case.

volokhcom/posts/1189140572.sht­ml

you should read. socialism has worked nowhere. Any place you can't own property and you money is taken and given out as OTHERS see fit will never work, I'm sorry you will never change my mind on that. As an American I enjoy my freedom

[dragonshead69]

@LLORT3 add a . between volokh and com. for some reason they don't allow links

[LLORT3]

@dragonshead69

I have already read much anti-socialist propaganda. I am telling you it works fine in Israel.

[dragonshead69]

@LLORT3 Say what you want I have read enough to know that I enjoy my freedom on a level that only an American understands. I do not want somone telling me in wvery aspect of my life what I can and cannot do. Sorry I'm funny that way.

[LLORT3]

@dragonshead69

Yea that is fine, things that work in USA don't necessarily work in Israel/Europe, and vice versa.

[jmn120176]

@LLORT3 1. "Prerogative" is not a word. Please expand your vocabulary before attempting intelligent discourse. 2. It IS up to the President to create jobs, vis a vis his policies. What he is doing now (the moratorium, massive increase in taxes in Jan 2011, and a general demonization of all for-profit businesses large and small) serves only to drive unemployment upward. With Obama's incessant introduction of gov't into the private sector, please explain how he "favors" the free market.

[LLORT3]

@jmn120176

prerogative

1. A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.

2. A faculty or property distinguishing a person or class.

[drinaldi2]

@jmn120176 ...but that's what LLORT3 wants. Shame on them - and I don't mean that like some 80-year old grandmother saying it. Shame WILL rest on them for what they're doing to our country.

[LLORT3]

Jindal is grandstanding; he opposes forcing BP to fund the claims Obama was asking for for the out of work fishermen and oil industry workers.

Jindal also opposes the extension of unemployment benefits. He is in the pocket of BP, nothing more nothing less.

[drinaldi2]

@LLORT3 you're out of it, bud. Way out.

[Camdenyardbird]

The Alinsky-trained socialist, Barry Obozo is employing the Cloward & Piven strategy. Google it.

[joskemom]

Pres Obama is a moron standing next to this guy. Gov Jindal represents real American values Pres Obama represents govt assistance, wishy washy cradle to the grave welfare state. Obama whines about what he inherited, what will the next Pres inherit?

[BeantownJim]

Ask Soros!

[devno9904]

let us go back to work jindal 2012!

[imrnlil]

This guy is brilliant

[loonmaniac]

Hey Pyush Amrit, go fuck yourself!

[patriot473]

JINDAL IS RIGHT!!!

[shoneyluvsAmerica]

I am so disgusted by President Obama's comments to Governor Jindal! Are you freakin' serious? A BP check? An unemployment check? How can someone be so idiotic? This nauseates me. One term baby, one term--that's all I got to say.

[theR0nin]

Oh, sure, just dismiss it as rhetoric. Do you even know what that means? Rhetoric could be: making a post dismissing the truth by claiming it's "just rhetoric".

Of course, you couldn't say anything else, because you have no actual _response_ to what he said, but you're not willing to admit it or to give up whatever political fantasy-land you're living in.

[cstrosser]

This is just rhetoric.

[mikedatigah]

@cstrosser

This isn't just rhetoric child. It's real people's jobs, and it's completely unnecessary.

[drinaldi2]

@cstrosser how old are you? You're either very young - or you're blissfully blind. Rhetoric - there wasn't one sentence of rhetoric in Jindal's address. AND, I might add, no teleprompter. He spoke from a heart that cares about his people and his state and is outraged at Obama's inexperienced, unschooled (yeah - I don't care what his degrees say - he doesn't know how to solve a problem), uncaring response. Rhetoric. That WORD is rhetoric.

[cstrosser]

@drinaldi2 The short-term gain of temporary employment on an oil rig does not merit the long-term consequences of another safety infringement that causes an environmental and/or economic crisis, as with the BP oil spill. Take President Obama out of the equation, and this problem remains. I see that you feel strongly about this, but please don't let yourself stoop to the depths of vituperation.

[drinaldi2]

@cstrosser I believe there is a timing for things and just because one rig blew by no means indicates that other rigs are going to follow suit all of a sudden. I'm sorry to vituperate, but President Obama is the most insensitive, opportunistic, single-mindedly anti-American (based on policy & attitude) President in my lifetime. Louisianans need to work. Inspect the equipment thoroughly while they work. His flippant answer to Jindal is inexcusable.

[drinaldi2]

@cstrosser I am not stooping - truth is hard to hear, sometimes, but it doesn't necessarily fall in the category of berating. Louisianans need help - do you really feel that Obama's answer to Jindal was helpful? And do you really think that the moratorium to prevent these other rigs from blowing in concert with BPs was necessary RIGHT NOW?  They can inspect and keep the employees on the payroll while they do so. I'm sorry, Obama does not care about those people. Caring is as caring does.

[drinaldi2]

@cstrosser 

[MoBushin04]

Come on liberals - don't repeat the mistakes of your ancestors and fall for communism.

[jim8569]

@MoBushin04 we already have a socialist pres.

[dragonshead69]

Great speaker, no notes or teleprompter.

Bobby Jindal for president

[sarahtwit]

@dragonshead69 ...President of what? Sesame Street? How about the circus side show? Maybe when he's not too busy attending an exorcism. That fucking freak of nature...

[dragonshead69]

@sarahtwit Have no idea what you are talking about. If your refering to one of my comments please explain.