Fish Oil

What do the two have in common?  Both are being put out of business by Barack Hoover Obama.

In the case of the latter in the Gulf States, knowingly AND with malice aforethought - as we already knew, and which the Wall Street Journal now has helpfully if belatedly splattered in front of the whole world:

Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn’t trust the industry’s safety equipment and the government’s own inspection process, according to previously undisclosed documents.

Critics of the moratorium, including Gulf Coast political figures and oil-industry leaders, have said it is crippling the region’s economy, and some have called on the administration to make public its economic analysis. A federal judge who in June threw out an earlier six-month moratorium faulted the administration for playing down the economic effects. …

They show the new top regulator or offshore oil exploration, Michael Bromwich, told Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that a six-month deepwater-drilling halt would result in “lost direct employment” affecting approximately 9,450 workers and “lost jobs from indirect and induced effects” affecting about 13,797 more. The July 10 memo cited an analysis by Mr. Bromwich’s agency that assumed direct employment on affected rigs would “resume normally once the rigs resume operations.”

They wanted the moratorium because they wanted to destroy the American offshore drilling industry, and Armus was their golden opportunity to do so.  Not just its tens of thousands of "good jobs at good wages," but the industry's capital assets (the drilling platforms themselves), which aren't just going to be left sitting idle when they could be put to productive use elsewhere in the world by countries that aren't ruled by crazy wannabe tyrants bent on forcing their peoples to commit economic suicide in the name of a false pagan religious cult.

Let us reiterate once again: Barack Obama wants to revive the economy independent of capitalism.  In practice this means (here we go again) "spending ourselves rich," "taxing ourselves to prosperity," "borrowing ourselves solvent," and generating oodles and oodles of "green" energy from ONLY sources that produce one-twenty-fifth of our total energy output today and for the forseeable technological future.

It won't work because it doesn't work because it's NEVER worked, which is why it never WILL work.  But facts don't matter to the blind ideologue who works off the one of Murphy's laws that states: "If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway" - but we'll all get stuck with the bill.  When reality won't conform to his ideological dogma, he just tries again and again and again, and bans all successful alternatives and even questioning of the dogma from its lack of results.  It becomes another of the Super-State's Big Lies which thou shalt not challenge, because what matters isn't what works, but that it SHOULD work, and therefore "officially" does.  Even though it doesn't and never will.

It's violently irrational.  It's loopily destructive.  It's faith-based politics.  It's Marxist theocracy.  Is it any wonder that such brain-dead, pie-in-the-sky romanticism invariably ends up becoming authoritarian and dictatorial?

Just ask the former employees of the New England fishing industry, who were also deliberately shunted to the unemployment line because the Obama regime explicitly want to "end private commercial fishing":

Leaders of the recreational and commercial fishing industry are planning a boat protest against federal policies Thursday outside the harbor of Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard, where President Obama and his family are summer vacationing.

The protest is being organized after a bipartisan, bicameral coalition of federal lawmakers — including the core of the president’s congressional base on banking and health care issues — have given up hope of working productively with Obama’s top appointee for oceans and fisheries, Jane Lubchenco, who heads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....

In a statement to the Times soon after her confirmation by the Senate, Lubchenco’s office said her goal was to see a “significant fraction of the vessels … removed.”

With the stocks rebuilding strongly, fishermen wonder at the need to reduce the size of the work force. …

Lubchenco has argued that consolidation, which has consistently followed catch shares, produces fewer but better jobs while giving the government a stronger hand in conservation.

I.e. "forced rationing".  And what form does this "catch share" scheme take?  A depressingly familiar template, as it turns out:

New England’s groundfishery, America’s oldest continuing industry which had harvested commonly owned resources, was converted to catch share principles on May 1 — with a total allocation divided and distributed to fishermen as catching rights that [can] be bought, sold or traded.

But the minute size of the total allocation and the eccentric mixes of quota from the fifteen species and twenty stocks in the groundfishery have pushed many businesses into — or close to — insolvency, a development that earlier this month brought a proposal from a bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators for a $100 million buyout.

Can you say "fishy cap & trade"?  The purpose of which is to artificially maintain shortages of harvestable fish since the actual shortage that served as the convenient justification for this Marxist "solution" no longer exists.  The "exploitable crisis" then used to justify nationalization of yet another domestic industry under the "bailout" euphemism.

Do you SEE what a criminal racket this is?  One sector after another gets mugged by Obama Nostra and then we get robbed to pay for the ensuing hostile takeovers.

Folks, if Barack Obama is ever impeached, one of the articles had better damn well be a RICO indictment.  If this regime isn't "an ongoing criminal conspiracy," I'll kiss Barney Frank full on his spunk-drenched lips.