Posts Tagged ‘security’
I was totally shocked today when I heard that the President opened some areas for oil drilling. It’s about time! With all of the foreign countries drilling and taking our oil we have to get there quickly to try to become self sufficient regarding power.
Now, let’s see what happens. Would it surprise me if after the November elections the President reverses himself? No.
But for now, 1 point to the President.
Chevron-Led Team Discovers Billions of Barrels in Gulf of Mexico’s Deep Water
The Jack No. 2 test well lies about 175 miles off the Louisiana coast and is half-owned by Chevron. The other half is split between Devon Energy and Statoil.
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
An oil discovery by Chevron Corp. has bolstered prospects that petroleum companies will be able to tap giant reserves that lie far beneath the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Check out the entire article here.
Seems there is more oil around here to add jobs, bolster the economy and improve our security.
3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—
Released: 4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM by the USGS (United States Geological Survey)
There is an email flying around talking about Trillions of barrels of oil in the north part of our country. Upon some investigation the actual amount is only (only?) 3-4.3 billion barrels.
Perhaps some of that could help get away from Foreign Oil usage AND produce some long term jobs and make our country’s more secure.
Here is the USGS page.
Seems to me that our “leaders” in Washington DC are enjoying playing games with us and the future of the United States. Here are some ideas that would accomplish what we want and guess what – they sure don’t cost too much.
Healthcare
1 – Cross State Border Health Care – Set it up similar to the Auto Insurance companies. With the increase in competition it is only logical that the costs will drop. This allows more people to purchase health insurance.
2 – Stop the Drug company Television ads. Have you seen them? Listen to the damages that drugs do. An example: To stop itching take this pill. Side effects are ulcers, high blood pressure, blindness and possibly death. Isn’t that a stupid thing? Let the doctors take care of medicines, NOT the drug companies. No TV ads, prices drop. Prices drop and more of the good medicine will be more available to more people.
3 – Put a cap on malpractice awards. This will cut the amount doctors must pay for insurance thereby reducing the cost to visit a doctor making more doctors available to help more people.
4 – Put more “checks and balances” into the federally run, and state run, medical services to eliminate fraud. Not enough is being done to accomplish that. Reduce the fraud and the costs will be reduced. Costs are reduced and more people can afford it.
Job Creation
1 – NO ILLEGALS working in our country. Get those jobs to the citizens of the United States. Wow, Job Creation!
2 – STOP importing foreigners to take the jobs of the citizens of the United States.
Wow, Job Creation!
3 – STOP companies from outsourcing American Jobs to foreign countries. What the heck? Make a call for tech support or for other purposes and you will probably spend ½ of your time asking the person to repeat what they say anyway. Stop Outsourcing and guess what – JOB CREATION!
4 – DON’T tax the people that have the money to expand their business and hire people. JOB CREATION!
Economy
1 – You will like this one! This one item could reduce the federal budget, the budget of every state, the budget of thousands of companies and the budget of healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. MAKE ENGLISH OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE and stop all of the requirements for duplicate forms, booklets, letters, instructions and what else? This alone will cut billions of dollars from the combined companies, states and so on. Oh, it would also eliminate the very annoying Press 1 for English messages. If people are living in the United States of American they MUST be able to speak English.
2 – DRILL FOR OUR OIL – China is taking our oil why don’t WE take it instead? That would save about $750 billion annually by cutting our dependence on Foreign Oil. It would also increase Jobs.
3 – USE COAL – With the technology we have available today coal burns much cleaner than most people realize. Cuts dependence on Foreign Oil and increases Jobs.
4 – STOP FUNDING COUNTRIES THAT DON’T LIKE US – What’s up with that? We send money to countries that thank us by bombing our embassies, military ship and OUR country. Reroute that money to improve our border security, port security and airport security.
Do you realize that everything above COSTS ZERO DOLLARS, Nada, Nichts, Rien, Niets, Niente, 没什么, 沒什麼. Doesn’t that look dumb?
If you look closely a good number of the points sorta go across the lines. Increasing jobs will always help the economy. Helping the economy helps reduce the deficit. Spending money here, instead of abroad, to buy oil also helps reduce the deficit. There is probably more but I am just a dumb kid from Long Island.
And that’s my view.