...Your widow or widower can receive benefits at any age if she or he takes care of your child who is receiving Social Security benefits and younger than age 16 or disabled.
Your unmarried children who are younger than age 18 (or up to age 19 if they are attending elementary or secondary school full time) also can receive benefits. Your children can get benefits at any age if they were disabled before age 22 and remain disabled. Under certain circumstances, benefits also can be paid to your stepchildren, grandchildren, stepgrandchildren or adopted children....
...The six-month drilling ban, which the U.S. Interior Department revised today (click title to entry - thank you) following lawsuits from local businesses, may affect as many as 24,000 jobs in Louisiana, Michael Hecht, president and CEO of economic-development group Greater New Orleans Inc., told a presidential commission today.
“Rigs were starting to leave” to drill in other nations, Hecht told reporters after testifying to the commission created by President Barack Obama last month. “The economic impact from the oil spill itself, however broad and long-lasting, will likely be dwarfed by the impact from the moratorium.”...
When does the harassment by Plutocrats and Corrupt Politicians end?
The Petroleum Industry has been conducting their operations with very 'high risk' with the permission of past administrations of the USA.
This is NOT a unique incident. It has happened before and it has happened in the Gulf of Mexico before.
NOTHING. Absolutely nothing was done to 'safeguard' the USA Gulf Coast from such a tragedy and the last time it occurred Texas was effected.
The GROSS negligence of BP and the Petroleum Industry is more than obvious. Eleven people are dead this time. The fisheries of the USA Gulf Coast are facing collapse and the 'whiners' in the world are mourning the loss of WEALTH from less than 3 percent of the GLOBAL 'potential' oil reserves.
This is outrageous. The companies and politicians are typical in their continued neglect and pursuit of greed. The moritorium is not a 'global' emergency, however, the oil in the Gulf and the Gulf Loop Current is a global emergency.
The deaths of the explosion aren't even important to these people.
Water under the bridge, what's one to do, life goes on, right? And it might happen again, after all getting out of bed in the morning can kill you. Or a car accidnet can happen and 'bam' your dead. So, everyone takes their chances in life and there are inherent chances when a person workds on an oil rig.
This is just another one of the Democratic measures of 'throwing a nuclear bomb at an ant.' This is nothing. The REAL trouble is the moratorium that will investigate the incident and the petroleum industry that will lead to safeguards and regulations and all that stuff that cuts into profits. I am sure everyone that died would appreciate that.
The six-month drilling ban, which the U.S. Interior Department revised today following lawsuits from local businesses, may affect as many as 24,000 jobs in Louisiana, Michael Hecht, president and CEO of economic-development group Greater New Orleans Inc., told a presidential commission today.“Rigs were starting to leave” to drill in other nations, Hecht told reporters after testifying to the commission created by President Barack Obama last month. “The economic impact from the oil spill itself, however broad and long-lasting, will likely be dwarfed by the impact from the moratorium.”
After all they died in the 'line of duty' for their company. Widows and children will receive appropriate provisions for their loss, but, even they can apprecaite the need to 'move on' and 'get on with life.' It is just a matter of a small adjustment in their lives. They'll be fine.
The rupture of the Blow Out Preventer is a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE, the military is deployed, the Secretary of Energy is involved in the DAILY concerns of this disaster, the CHANCE of this happening AGAIN with technology that has already failed the people of the Gulf Coast and the nation to date is a REAL possibility.
So, the USA should 'take the chance' and 'spin the wheel' to allow UNNEEDED exploratory drilling off the REMAINING untainted coastlines of the country (keeping fingers crossed that the Atlantic Coast will not be effected and the chemical dispersant will prove to be no nemesis) and 'sacrifice' the security of the remaining fisheries.
I DON'T THINK SO !!!!!!!
BP is liable and this President and Justice Department has every intention of holding that company responsible for the damages and losses to the USA.
I'm really not worried. I can understand, however, how stockholders are livid at the FACT, President Obama is not a spineless, pandering oil man.
