Several days into the oil spill the president of the United States should have called all private companies and all foreign companies, with no prejudice to relations or oil skimming methods. The Gulf Of Mexico should have quickly looked like a naval war zone, with so many oil skimming ships that it would appear the U.S. was under attack. By brute force a significant amount of oil would have been cleaned up every single day, while the oil still leaked into the water. Instead of this solution, the president refused to waive the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 which prohibits Continue reading 'The Gulf Oil Spill is no priority for President Obama'»
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In lieu of the White House granting gay people the “right” to visit loved ones in the hospital, I wish to inform any Americans who see this as an advantage that it is meaningless. That is an important distinction because the president has now distracted many people from doing the things they need to do in order to assure that they do in fact have visitation rights! Please note I am neither gay nor an attorney so I have no stake in the recent proclamation, but all Americans in fact need to take the proper legal precautions or risk losing visitations to loved ones, or other significant financial problems.
If you have never retained an Estate Planner, please do so. You can contractually setup arrangements such as designating anyone your want be your beneficiary, have hospital visitation rights, etc. Your planner will guide you to state forms and procedures (yes, our freedoms truly lie with the states, not the federal government) that will guarantee your related needs. If a hospital were to violate these legal preparations they will in fact be violating the law. However, until you prepare, you are at risk, whether you are straight, gay, martian, or Purple Gambezian Poison Flower Chomper, of being turned away from your loved one’s hospital bedside unless you are in fact their legal guardian.
JBM
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