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Within 48 hours after President Obama issued the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, the George Soros-backed Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, contacted a large New Orleans company, Laborde Marine, which services the deep-water drilling market. The company was seeking to lease all its vessels. “If the moratorium on deep-water drilling is not lifted, 33 semi-submersible rigs and/or drill ships affected will simply go to other countries where they will be well received, such as Brazil,” Cliffe F. Laborde and J. Peter Laborde, Jr. wrote in a June 4 letter to their Louisiana Senators.

Could this be merely a happy coincidence for George Soros, the major financial backer of Obama’s presidential campaign who also has $811 million invested in the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras? Wasn’t it enough of a payback to Soros when the Obama Administration loaned up to $10 billion to Petrobras? Soros, with his far left-wing organization, MoveOn, is called the Godfather of world socialism. But most relevant currently is that he has been an enthusiastic proponent of global warming and environmental liberalism. He has urged adoption of a global carbon tax. Could it be more than coincidence that his position is strikingly similar to what Obama called for in his June 14 Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil spill and future energy actions?

“Seizing on the widening calamity in the Gulf of Mexico, to push for legislation he had advocated [a carbon tax] since his campaign” a New York Times article noted. “Mr. Obama said he was willing to look for approaches from Republicans as well as Democrats….” Obama delivered the speech the evening before he was to meet with British Petroleum top executives to demand that they agree to the creation of a multi-billion dollar escrow account to pay claims stemming from the disaster when the company’s rig blew up and spewed oil into the Gulf.

The moratorium could mean the loss of at least 20,000 jobs, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal wrote in a letter to Obama. “The last thing we need is to enact public policies that will certainly destroy thousands of existing jobs while preventing the creation of thousands more,” Jindal’s statement said. Each drilling platform idled by the ban puts 1,400 jobs at risk, according to the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), a group of drillers and companies that support oil production. Lost wages could reach $10 million a month for each rig, according to Jangal. NOIA has said: ”The offshore industry is responsible for nearly 200,000 jobs in the Gulf of Mexico alone, and provides 30 percent of our nation’s domestic oil production….[W]e must be careful not to make things worse.”

The Labordes, in their letter to their senators, wrote: “To shut down the entire industry is overkill and analogous to shutting down all commercial air traffic after one plane crash due to pilot error.” The Labordes also wrote,

Over the last three years, we have built in U.S. shipyards or acquired new U.S. built and flagged vessels primarily designed to service the deep water drilling market. We own and/or operate 21 vessels. Our annual payroll is over $14 million. Now, the U.S. government is telling us to simply ‘park’ our vessels for at least six months. Never in the history of the United States has the government decided to shut down an entire industry for six months. That decision seems to be a knee-jerk reaction based on an emotional response to the spill, and made without a full appreciation of the consequences which will adversely impact tens of thousands of hard working people who are engaged in the industry. It is a decision that advances the Administration’s agenda for transferring to a clean/alternative energy economy, but at an enormous cost to the thousands of us engaged in offshore exploration and development.

If the moratorium on deep water drilling is not lifted, the 33 semi-submergible rigs and/or drill ships will simply go to other countries where they will be well received [and] will not return to the Gulf of Mexico for years if ever. The damage to our industry will be irreversible….For us to move internationally, we will have to compete with vessels built in foreign yards at a much lower cost and often subsidized by foreign governments. It will not be a level playing field. The moratorium may well be the death-knell for U.S. businesses engaged in the energy service sector….While alternative energy is a laudable goal, it will be decades before alternative fuels make a dent in our county’s needs….This is the United States of America, where reason and sound judgment have always been the foundation of our system of government—not poorly thought-out and capricious reactions that destroy the livelihoods of thousands of its citizens in order to promote a partisan political agenda….”

By siding with liberal Democrats who oppose off-shore drilling or even much safer drilling on the continent, Obama is costing the nation trillions in revenues and scores of thousands of new jobs. Meanwhile, his pal and sponsor, George Soros will see his investment in Brazil’s Petrobras turn a pretty profit when oil prices rise, as surely they will if U.S. resources are not tapped. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that we have U.S. resources to generate nearly 160,000 new, well-paying jobs and $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, with $1.3 trillion from offshore drilling alone.

kalm wrote:Holy ****, that socialist sure does invest a lot of capital.

houndawg wrote:

kalm wrote:Holy ****, that socialist sure does invest a lot of capital.

Where does a commie get that kind of jack?

travelinman67 wrote:The architect of the Democrat's policies and law, George Soros, founder of Center For American Progress and Moveon.org, amongst the other dozens of anti-American organizations he funds or heads, raced towards the opportunity to profit from the BP disaster and subsequent drilling moratorium imposed by his handmaiden, Pres. Obama.
And, only an idiot doesn't acknowledge, what financially benefits Soros, subsequently financially benefits the Democrats.

dbackjon wrote:You got it wrong, T-man - Soros is one of the few true patriots. Unlike the Republican scum ruining this country

dbackjon wrote:You got it wrong, T-man - Soros is one of the few true patriots. Unlike the Republican scum ruining this country

Col Hogan wrote:

dbackjon wrote:You got it wrong, T-man - Soros is one of the few true patriots. Unlike the Republican scum ruining this country

jon...tell me you're just yanking T-Man's chain...

You don't really believe Soros is a patriot...do you???

Baldy wrote:

houndawg wrote:

Where does a commie get that kind of jack?

Socialist?
Commie?

It's called "Progressive" in today's terms. They'll crawl over their dead sister to **** their mother in order to grab money and power.

dbackjon wrote:

Col Hogan wrote:
jon...tell me you're just yanking T-Man's chain...

You don't really believe Soros is a patriot...do you???

Shhhh.....

Soros is the same as any other Wall Street raider, Republican or Democrat - first allegiance is to himself.

native wrote:

dbackjon wrote:


Shhhh.....

Soros is the same as any other Wall Street raider, Republican or Democrat - first allegiance is to himself.

That's not a very convincing backpedal, jonboy. Kissing Soros arse is just going too far,even for you.

Appaholic wrote:

native wrote:
That's not a very convincing backpedal, jonboy. Kissing Soros arse is just going too far,even for you.

Surely you don't believe that Soros is inherently more dangerous than any other corporate raider? Soros is no more dangerous than a Wolfowitz of Feith...actually less so since those folks had the power of the government (& law)behind their disastrous decisions. The point Jon is making is that Soros, like others in their realm, are all dangerous to us average americans as they are disconnected from us & seldom suffer the results of their decisons. It's the powererful moneyed elite, whether Rep or Dem, that is dangerous...not because they are Rep or Dem....

native wrote:

Appaholic wrote:
Surely you don't believe that Soros is inherently more dangerous than any other corporate raider? Soros is no more dangerous than a Wolfowitz of Feith...actually less so since those folks had the power of the government (& law)behind their disastrous decisions. The point Jon is making is that Soros, like others in their realm, are all dangerous to us average americans as they are disconnected from us & seldom suffer the results of their decisons. It's the powererful moneyed elite, whether Rep or Dem, that is dangerous...not because they are Rep or Dem....

Your points are well taken, but of course Soros is more dangerous than the others, due to his intentions to destroy the system, and his actions and ability to do so.

Appaholic wrote: Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

Appaholic wrote:

native wrote:
Your points are well taken, but of course Soros is more dangerous than the others, due to his intentions to destroy the system, and his actions and ability to do so.

Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

native wrote:

Appaholic wrote:
Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

Your comparison is quite apt, although it does nopt suport your ambivalence. Wolfowitz and Feith can indeed be compared to a couple of teenagers with daddy's keys and a six pack.

Soros, on the other hand, is no teenager. He is more like Jeffrey Dahmer or the BTK killer.

Baldy wrote:

houndawg wrote:

Where does a commie get that kind of jack?

Socialist?
Commie?

It's called "Progressive" in today's terms. They'll crawl over their dead sister to **** their mother in order to grab money and power.

native wrote:

Appaholic wrote:
Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

Your comparison is quite apt, although it does nopt suport your ambivalence. Wolfowitz and Feith can indeed be compared to a couple of teenagers with daddy's keys and a six pack.

Soros, on the other hand, is no teenager. He is more like Jeffrey Dahmer or the BTK killer.

houndawg wrote:

Baldy wrote: Socialist?
Commie?

It's called "Progressive" in today's terms. They'll crawl over their dead sister to **** their mother in order to grab money and power.

The correct phrasing is "crawl over their dying mother to **** their dead sister".

native wrote:

Appaholic wrote:
Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

Your comparison is quite apt, although it does nopt suport your ambivalence. Wolfowitz and Feith can indeed be compared to a couple of teenagers with daddy's keys and a six pack.

Soros, on the other hand, is no teenager. He is more like Jeffrey Dahmer or the BTK killer.

Baldy wrote:

Appaholic wrote: Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

What power does he have?

He basically owns and bankrolls mediamatters and The Center for American Progress. Mediamatters said in the last midterm cycle that they "own" the Democrat Party, and the Center for American Progress writes all of Obama's major legislation initiatives. Do you really think that he doesn't have any power?

Baldy wrote:

Appaholic wrote: Really? What power does he have? I mean legitimate power? And while the other two I mentioned aren't corporate raiders per se, they were placed in positions of power & authority. And they displayed as much good judgment as a teenager with a six-pack & the keys to Daddy's corvette....

What power does he have?

He basically owns and bankrolls mediamatters and The Center for American Progress. Mediamatters said in the last midterm cycle that they "own" the Democrat Party, and the Center for American Progress writes all of Obama's major legislation initiatives. Do you really think that he doesn't have any power?

kalm wrote: George W. Bush wrote most of Obama's policy intitiatives, the rest have been written by United Health, BP, and Goldman Sachs.

Media Matters owns the Democratic Party. Half the people on this board know absolutely nothing about Media Matters or Center for American Progress, but I'll bet you they're familiar with Fox.

Got it!

Baldy wrote:

kalm wrote: George W. Bush wrote most of Obama's policy intitiatives, the rest have been written by United Health, BP, and Goldman Sachs.

Umm, no...Obama did take several Bush initiatives, but he injected them with meth, crack, steroids, HGH, and God knows what else. Bad ideas from Bush have been turned into a Republic killer under Obama.

Don't fool yourself, United Health, BP, Goldman, etc. have a ring through their noses and the Fed is pulling them anywhere they want. Currently they are heading toward the cliff at breakneck speed.

Media Matters owns the Democratic Party. Half the people on this board know absolutely nothing about Media Matters or Center for American Progress, but I'll bet you they're familiar with Fox.

And that matters how?
Andy Stern has visited the White House more than any non government official. I would guess even less know who he is, but I bet he has more influence on Obama than any of his advisers on staff.

Got it!

Sorry, you're not even close to getting it.