According to news reports, corporations from more than a dozen different countries with extensive experience and technological know-how regarding the clean-up of oil spills have offered to help but have been told to get lost by the Obammunists.  The reason is a 1920 protectionist piece of legislation called ‘The Jones Act,” which requires shipping to be built  by American (i.e., unionized) workers and staffed by American sailors.  So as not to ruffle the delicate feathers of unionized dock workers and other protectionist parasites in an election year, the Obammunists have refused all of their help.

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