{"id":2007,"date":"2010-06-14T07:44:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2010-06-12T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T23:19:59","slug":"getting-into-the-jones-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/06\/getting-into-the-jones-act.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting Into the Jones Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merivartiosto.fi\/rvl\/lsmv\/home.nsf\/files\/BCEDAF22345D434AC22574FE00479465\/$file\/tursas5.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Oil Spill Ship\" src=\"http:\/\/www.merivartiosto.fi\/rvl\/lsmv\/home.nsf\/files\/BCEDAF22345D434AC22574FE00479465\/$file\/tursas5.JPG\" alt=\"Oil Spill Ship\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In the last couple of days I&#8217;ve heard a lot of complaining about the failure of Obama to waive the Jones Act.  My initial reaction was, &#8220;The Jones what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I finally got a chance to do a little homework, and I must admit I&#8217;m still scratching my head a little.\u00a0 The Jones Act is pretty simple.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 1920&#8217;s era protectionist policy that only allows American ships, staffed by US workers, to move goods between US ports.\u00a0 Apparently Bush waived the Jones Act following Katrina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/06\/10\/jones-act-slowing-oil-spill-cleanup\/\">Conservative commentators and pundits have been raising a fuss lately<\/a>, claiming that Obama is refusing to waive the act to preserve his good standing with Labor Unions.\u00a0 Meanwhile, foreign vessels with lots of badly needed oil cleanup capability are ready to be deployed, but forbidden to help.<\/p>\n<p>This would be horrendous if true, which of course it really isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 It&#8217;s true Obama hasn&#8217;t waived the act. But somewhat importantly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/content\/view\/37274\/\">there are no requests for him to do so<\/a>.\u00a0 Further, several government officials are on record saying that if needed, the act will be waived.\u00a0 No muss, no fuss, no bother.<\/p>\n<p>If you think about it, this doesn&#8217;t even pass the sniff test.\u00a0 The Democrats and Labor are increasingly at odds as demonstrated in Labor&#8217;s actions in last Tuesday&#8217;s primary.\u00a0 And the Dems are completely unapologetic about it.\u00a0 Yes, Labor helped get Obama in office, but they&#8217;ve been widely reported as feeling snubbed by him since.\u00a0 So we&#8217;re to believe Obama is finally going to throw them a bone, and the bone he chooses would make him responsible for increasing the devastation and suffering caused by a disaster that threatens to tank his whole term in office?\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n<p>This is politics, plain and simple.\u00a0 But then this isn&#8217;t so plain and simple.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t just spin.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t just over amplification of the inconsequential.\u00a0 This is outrage over a manufactured problem.\u00a0 And that to me, is a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of days I&#8217;ve heard a lot of complaining about the failure of Obama to waive the<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/06\/getting-into-the-jones-act.html\" title=\"Read Getting Into the Jones Act\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}