The ONLY Good Thing About Budget Deal: Lifts Oil Export Ban
It was truly disheartening to learn of the complete sell-out by House Speaker Paul Ryan (Republican) and the Republican-led House in the latest budget deal. They essentially bent over and grabbed their ankles and assumed the position while Barack Hussein Obama had his way with them. This budget deal is repulsive--as grossly corrupt as it gets. The Democrats are even more corrupt--but we expect that of them. The only good thing that came from the budget deal, as near as we can tell, is that it lifts the 40-year ban on crude oil exports. As a Bloomberg article headline puts it, "Shale Drillers Are Now Free to Export U.S. Oil Into Global Glut." Yeah, that about sums it up. Hey, having the crude oil ban lifted is good, we're happy about that. But in the larger pantheon of the budget deal, we could have lived without it if we had gotten a better deal on far more critical items. Here's what the inimitable Heartland Institute, one of our favorites, said about this disastrous budget deal...
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