Palin Questions Why The Obama Administration Is Funding Brazilian Oil Development
The absurdity of this goes beyond parody.
A nation rich in oil won’t allow drilling for it but will send billions of dollars - during an economic crunch - to a foreign nation so they can drill for their own oil. That we can then buy. The left’s favorite dart board, Sarah Palin, is pointing out this tragic comedy of errors in her Facebook page:
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
She’s right.
We need jobs. We need oil. We have oil. Lots of it. Yet we can’t go get it and in the process create thousand of jobs. Instead, we’re paying another country to go get their oil so we can pay them. It just doesn’t make sense.
Drill, baby, drill. But do it here.
