Why is Obama doing nothing about the oil leak?

They are Federal waters because they don't belong to any state, and if the US didn't claim them, someone else would. We wouldn't like that would we? The Chinese plan to drill in the general vicinity, just outside our waters.

Maybe we should all go out there in our rowboats and clean things up? I realize Obama did not cause the oil leak, just as Bush did not cause Katrina. But the Fed's own guidelines call for a burnoff of the spilled oil and that didn't happen until this week. And in this case there has been no overlapping of authority as there was in New Orleans, so there is not that excuse.

It's great that you have planned ahead for yourself, but with all due respect SN, I'm pretty sure you don't turn down your Federal pension check each month.