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People are losing perspective on the oil well problem. First, the purpose of these wells is to keep America strong on fuel that runs our economy while cutting off foreign interaction as much as possible. Second, it shows that industry is better than those environmental activist nutjobs whining about tasty animals. Finally, it is the best way to spend us taxpayer dollars - on private industry which makes America strong.

So there is this well problem in the Gulf and some special interest groups are trying to exaggerate the issue and the damage. No science has actually measured the oil spill, people argue about how much it is (the company is probably right), and the pro-gov types are trying to use it as some sort of excuse to fight for more government regulation. The problem is, it's government regulation that caused this problem. The well, the rights to the well, and all the required checks are the government intervention already. If you had more, there might actually be more disasters. We know that government workers are crooked, and make companies do stupid things to pretend to comply with socialist agendas. If the company was allowed to run free, it would have been more efficient and had no problem - it's probably complying with the phone-books of regulations that caused the leak in the first place.

Enviro wackos are saying the oil leak is huge and will hurt marine life. However, when the republicans and other free Americans were asking the community organizer his views on US fuel, the lefties claimed that it would not be enough to fuel our great country. You can't have it both ways, but they argue it's small when we want it for our trucks and huge when they're worried about pelicans you can't eat. Also, the scientists haven't taken the proper time to measure the actual results from the spill - maybe by killing off some pooping birds there will be more marine life overall for us to harvest and eat. See, they never think this stuff through on CNN.

Well, a simple and cheap solution has been proposed - nuke the well closed. The liberals will scream about this, but don't they want to get rid of nukes anyway? What better way than to fight their declared enemy - private US fuel? The fallout would be minor and probably just follow the stream down to mexican illegal immigrant drug lords, and the well would be instantly and securely capped. We could also stream the video if we used a bunker-buster like in iraq war pt 1 - that would be awesome!

Peace through prosperity,

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Well yes, I am pissed off, since you asked. I keep getting sick - every time something is going around I seem to get it. Recently I've been eating healthier, working out but not insane amounts, and even had a great stress reduction in my life...still, you'd think I was immune compromised as often as I get sick and how long I seem to hold onto every simple little cold.

Why else do I mock the right wing? Well, today I got a "letter" from Steve Forbes encouraging me to protect firefighters and police from big greedy power crazy union bosses. I get left wing stuff too, but it's, in my experience, far more intelligent and less fear oriented, than this right wing drivel.

Big Labor's politicians in Washington are primed and ready to ram the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill (H.R. 413/S. 1611) through Congress and into law...H.R. 413 is designed to FORCE every firefighter and police officer in the country under union boss control -- and is just the first step toward forcing ALL state and local public employees under Big Labor's thumb.

Here is the real thing: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:2:./temp/~bdzqTU::|/home/LegislativeData.php|
It basically appears to do the same thing government workers already have - "forced to join a Union" is greatly overstated - it could also be phrased as allowed to join a union, or forces employers to deal with unions rather than passing local ordnances against them. Also, puts their review process under the existing FLRA which makes sense to me as both groups are public servants.

And if passed, this dangerous bill could mean:
Small communities that depend on volunteer police and firefighters for their safety will be forced to do without them. Or, communities will have to deal with mammoth tax hikes to pay for union boss-controlled public safety workers.Local and state governments will be forced to pay the salaries and perks of union bosses during these tough economic times -- something they can't afford to do.
Last year, the City of Vallejo went bankrupt after nearly 75% of its budget was spent on unionized police and firefighters!

A quick google of "Vallejo"
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/26/local/la-me-vallejo-20100526
reveals that it is a municipality that declared bankruptcy, but it appears overspending and the bursting housing bubble was the real cause - no real articles about the high-paid cops and firefighters driving the city to the brink. But hey - if the right wing wants us to blame the cops...
In 1990 the city forecast bankruptcy around 1994, but they failed to take action. I have to go with blame the short-sighted voters, and their associated politicians, for the mess rather than cops and firefighters. In fact, those nasty union fellows negotiated not to get raises for multiple years just to help balance the budget.

Our cities, towns [sic] and neighborhoods will become less safe. Forcing police and firefighters under the control of power-mad union bosses will tend to drive many of the best men and women out of their jobs.

Really? Aren't those evil union fellows...fellow cops and firefighters? Are there bad apples who go mad with power, but instead of abusing civil rights, blackmailing attractive suspects into sexual acts, or taking bribe money - decide to go buck wild and unionize? For shame!

And, of course, history shows us police and firefighter monopoly bargaining power has all too often led to strikes. Violent. Destructive. Bloody.

Wait, what? I get that I'm supposed to fear union bosses who morph out of our finest uniformed local civil servants, but then they lead the rest of the law enforcement and fire abatement buddies into riots against the populace?

Doesn't the intended audience ever think this crap through?
Just kidding - of course they don't. This is Glenn Beck, signing off...and watch out for cops!