Friday - July 09, 2010

Your Daily Two Minute Obama

As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, “Obama, there you go again.”

The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0—a blowout.

Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This “community organizer” knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.

Oh I dunno; I’d give Pam a break. Who knows more about the dangers of two critical masses colliding? But give the rest of it a read just in case you’ve forgotten for one whole day about the BS, the union favoritism, the political payoffs, and how much the real economy is tanking.

Hey, speaking of tanking, how about that oil spill in the Gulf? Day 81. And the latest I hear is that the government continues to test that A Whale ship ... which could have sucked up and processed 168 million gallons of corrupted water by now had it been put to work when it arrived a week ago. Next thing we’ll hear is that the Coast Guard grounded them for insufficient life jackets. Or too much salt in the crew’s oatmeal. Or some other bureau-wienie nonsense.



Oh, and by the way, have you heard that the vast majority of cleanup workers along the beaches of the Gulf are either American blacks or illegal aliens? How about that one? With Americans suffering from near 10% unemployment, they have to hire foreigners? And guess who is doing that hiring? The government of course! Or was it BP? Or were these jobs only funded by BP? And then they (gov) have the moxie, the gall, to let the Labor Secretary, Congresswoman Hilda Solis, publicly complain about their working conditions, and that they don’t have ENOUGH interpreters!

She said workers cleaning up BP’s oil spill on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico include minorities who often don’t have the interpretation services they need to understand how to handle contaminants.

Solis said the workers, some of whom she visited recently, are a “vulnerable population” that needs to be protected and that her office is directing BP to give them proper training in their spoken languages.

“What I heard overwhelmingly was that there were no interpreters that could provide them with information on how they could go about understanding what safety measures that OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is requiring them to take so they could be certified to be part of the cleanup,” Solis said.

She said the workers are often minorities, including African-Americans, Asians, Mexicans and Central Americans who work in 109-degree weather while wearing plastic coveralls.

I have heard elsewhere that these beach cleaners are paid $25 per hour, and because of the heat and OSHA rules they only work 1 hour in 3 but get paid for all of them. So it takes 3 of them to do one guy’s work for a day, at triple the price. Well, that’s for the ones who actually get assignments. The rest of them are still in training, forced to sit through the aptly named and federally mandated HAZWOPER 40 hours of training, so that they learn how to properly put a shovel full of sand in a plastic bag while someone else ties it off. And even that’s a circle jerk, rife with claims of payoffs, false training certificates, poor training and extortion.

Here’s a slide show from Al Reuters.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/09/2010 at 02:07 PM   
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