The Advantage Of Being In Bed With The Regime

By Semperpapa

Politics is the ever corrupting activity mankind has been engaging in since the dawn of time, the second oldest profession, not much different than the oldest.

Last month the EPA (read Obama) started to enforce new regulations for power plants emission standard:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132612887/epa-to-enforce-new-emission-rules-on-power-plants

At the time of this last step for the administration to further kill the energy-producing industry in the United States, critics waited for the first “exemption” the Obama regime would grant, in the good old Soviet fashion. And they did not have to wait for long.

A power plant that has been stalled in its completion in the San Joaquin Valley in California, received its exemption from having to adhere to the new emission rules for carbon dioxide.

The Avenal Power Center, a 600-megawatt plant, received the gift from Obama and they could probably thank the fact that the equipment used in the power plant, two natural gas powered and one steam powered turbines, are manufactured by General Electric.

This type of equipment is surely not cheap and it does not take a huge leap of faith to be suspicious of the coincidence between this first exemption and the recruiting of GE CEO Jeff Immelt by the president.

The move from the Obama administration comes on the heels of a New Orleans federal judge, Martin Feldman, finding the federal government in contempt of court for its actions regarding the oil drilling moratorium established as a reaction to the 2010 BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

The federal judge is stating that the federal government is purposely disregarding his ruling with its reluctance to issue new permits for offshore drilling, seriously impacting the economy of the Gulf region and the dependency of America to foreign oil.

Maybe GE should get into the oil-drilling business, at least we could get some movement on the permits and some jobs back in the area.

So there is a great advantage in getting in bed with a despotic regime.

Support the regime and even if you are one of those huge evil corporations, you are assured to benefit from that move.

Huge conglomerates like General Electric are always big supporters of totalitarian governmental takeovers, as they are posed to achieve market hegemony when government regulations kill competition from smaller organizations.

It is abundantly clear that the Obama regime is moving in the direction of bleeding the private sector to death and to centralize the most significant industries within government control. They have attempted and still push for socialization of the health care industry, while at the same time issuing over 700 to date “exemptions” to organizations that openly support the Socialist agenda of the president.

It is most unlikely that judge Feldman will be able to force Obama’s stooge Ken Salazar to stand in front of his court to respond the charge of contempt of court. Once again, when a federal judge sides with the regime, he is called courageous even when he or she nullify the will of the people, but when a federal judge follows the Constitution, he or she is suddenly engaging in judicial activism. Just fine if it means controlling the population and removing freedoms, not so fine when it reinforces the law and the interests of the Nation.

Just my thoughts!