One thing that president Obama has made very clear in his administration is that he divides America into three groups: (1) friends, (2) enemies and (3) those beneath consideration. Today we got the latest demonstration of this phenomenon. Obama made clear that he is about to sign an executive order granting most wind farms across America a 30 year exemption from laws that prevent the killing of endangered species. Specifically, Obama is granting his friends who own these "green energy" power facilities the right to kill hundreds of thousands of birds each year by smashing them with the blades of the wind turbines. Birds like the bald eagle which was almost wiped out a few decades back and which has been making something of a recovery are now going to be bludgeoned to death by wind turbines twisting in the breeze.
Now some argue that this ruling is nothing more than Obama balancing the need for renewable energy with the requirements of the laws protecting animals and especially endangered species. There are really two problems with this. First of all, if there has to be a balancing of that sort, it is up to Congress not the president to do that under our Constitution. Second, we have the major question why Obama lets his friends in the green energy business kill literally hundreds of thousands or millions of birds while folks like the farmers in California's Central Valley and elsewhere are deprived of water needed to irrigate their fields and produce their crops so as to protect a few fish or a salamander which live in downstream waters. Why are wind turbines more important than farms? Why is energy production more important than food production? Why is the requirement of protecting endangered species enforced against family farmers but not against green energy tycoons who get millions already from the federal government and who also happen to give millions to the Obama election campaigns? The answer is that the green energy tycoons are friends of Obama, and he likes to give presents to his friends no matter what the law says. The family farmers who are being forced in many cases to sell out or declare bankruptcy are not Obama's friends. Don't get me wrong, these farmers are not Obama's enemies either. They are just part of the vast majority of the country, you know, the people that Obama does not even consider in making decisions.
When you look at Obama's conduct for the last five years, you see that there are a great many Americans about whom Obama could not care less. Look at Obamacare. I don't want to argue the merits of the law here; I think we have said enough on this site to cover that issue. No, I want to focus only on the recent news that Obama did not bother for the three years prior to the website roll out even to meet with the woman in charge of that effort, Kathleen Sebelius. If you wanted the reason how Obama could possibly not check in with Sebelius for the three years before the Obamacare exchanges went live, it is because those exchanges really only affect common Americans. Obama's friends like big labor or the Washington establishment don't use the exchanges. Indeed, if they were slated to do so, Obama gave them exemptions. Big contributors also got exemptions, so the exchanges were left for the hundreds of millions of ordinary people, the ones about whom Obama could not care less.
Another indicator of this truth from Obama is his handling of the economy. Obama's goal from day one in office has always been to pump up government spending. Millions of people are without jobs or are suffering because incomes in the average American household have declined by over 10% since Obama took office. Nothing that Obama has done or wants to do helps those average Americans. No, the Obama policies are basically to have the Federal Reserve continue to pump up the money supply to help his friends on Wall Street and also to pump up federal spending so that he will have more cash to give to his friends. The rest of us are on our own.
Now some argue that this ruling is nothing more than Obama balancing the need for renewable energy with the requirements of the laws protecting animals and especially endangered species. There are really two problems with this. First of all, if there has to be a balancing of that sort, it is up to Congress not the president to do that under our Constitution. Second, we have the major question why Obama lets his friends in the green energy business kill literally hundreds of thousands or millions of birds while folks like the farmers in California's Central Valley and elsewhere are deprived of water needed to irrigate their fields and produce their crops so as to protect a few fish or a salamander which live in downstream waters. Why are wind turbines more important than farms? Why is energy production more important than food production? Why is the requirement of protecting endangered species enforced against family farmers but not against green energy tycoons who get millions already from the federal government and who also happen to give millions to the Obama election campaigns? The answer is that the green energy tycoons are friends of Obama, and he likes to give presents to his friends no matter what the law says. The family farmers who are being forced in many cases to sell out or declare bankruptcy are not Obama's friends. Don't get me wrong, these farmers are not Obama's enemies either. They are just part of the vast majority of the country, you know, the people that Obama does not even consider in making decisions.
When you look at Obama's conduct for the last five years, you see that there are a great many Americans about whom Obama could not care less. Look at Obamacare. I don't want to argue the merits of the law here; I think we have said enough on this site to cover that issue. No, I want to focus only on the recent news that Obama did not bother for the three years prior to the website roll out even to meet with the woman in charge of that effort, Kathleen Sebelius. If you wanted the reason how Obama could possibly not check in with Sebelius for the three years before the Obamacare exchanges went live, it is because those exchanges really only affect common Americans. Obama's friends like big labor or the Washington establishment don't use the exchanges. Indeed, if they were slated to do so, Obama gave them exemptions. Big contributors also got exemptions, so the exchanges were left for the hundreds of millions of ordinary people, the ones about whom Obama could not care less.
Another indicator of this truth from Obama is his handling of the economy. Obama's goal from day one in office has always been to pump up government spending. Millions of people are without jobs or are suffering because incomes in the average American household have declined by over 10% since Obama took office. Nothing that Obama has done or wants to do helps those average Americans. No, the Obama policies are basically to have the Federal Reserve continue to pump up the money supply to help his friends on Wall Street and also to pump up federal spending so that he will have more cash to give to his friends. The rest of us are on our own.
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