Reality Check
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6/4/2010 7:14:45 PM
---- Updated 6/4/2010 7:32:20 PM
Oh Ohh, Obama lashes out at BP on Gulf visit..
This after the current administration having their boot heel to the neck of BP ad all the rest of attacks on BP.., hmmnnn.
Rather than constantly lashing out at British Petroleum, shouldn't competent leadership properly assessed the potential environmental and economic damage from the onset and taken the lead then? And by doing so accepting the offers of help from the 17 countries and 4 world organizations who would have aided greatly in minimizing the damage that has now occurred and will continue with no end in site?
Instead we get more posturing on this tragedy when that could have waited until this crises was solved. What was needed from the beginning is coordinated cooperation from everyone and this current govt. still doesn't get it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_gulf_oil_spill
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never never band
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6/4/2010 8:35:46 PM
the problem is that BPs liability has to be maintained.
And thats tricky shit to do in a world where your and your crapulous cronies have favored the rights and privileges of big business over civilians at every turn.
Also there's the fact that companies like BP, Trasocean and Halibuton are supposed to be tooled and prepared to deal catastophic failures, this is their goddam job and their responsibility. If outside influences take over BP can relieve itself of liability.
If a chemical factory blew up in your neighborhood would you want the police to deal with it? Or the company that is supposed to be tooled and prepared to deal with it?
It's amazing to me that you scream about government take overs and over reaching for a year and then you scream that the government isn't taking over and over reaching.
Your philosophy of civics has no consistancy.
I mean, I thought we were supposed to relax governemtn intervention and put our faith in the private sector?
huh?
and now that it's entirely appropriate for the private sector to FINALLY step up and do the right thing your crying that the government wont save you.
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Reality Check
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6/4/2010 9:34:42 PM
---- Updated 6/4/2010 9:40:29 PM
I have no idea what you're frothing at the mouth about now but if you did you're homework you would know now that the spurned offers of help from around the world would mainly have consisted of ships collecting the oil immediately as it came to the surface and thereby minimalising this environmental tragedy as it exists now. That should have been the elementary first step but leadership was absent when needed.
And many speculate this is the reason why.., just follow the money Mighty-Mouth.
http://politicallore.com/blog/?p=1752
"As British Petroleum (BP) rushes to try to cap its gushing Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, it has been revealed that the the fourth largest company in the world has played favorites with its political cash contributions. This should come as a surprise to no one. The real surprise is found in the political affiliation of many of the beneficiaries of BP’s Big Cash. Most people associate Big Oil with Republicans, and cite the familiar connections former president George W. Bush and his vice president Dick Cheney have had with the oil business over the years.
But the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group which keeps track of money in U.S. politics, has found that BP and its employees have donated more than 3.5 million dollars to federal candidates over the past two decades, and the largest chunk of that sum went to Barack Obama. 2.89 million dollars was given to campaigns by BP’s political action committees (PACs), and about 638,000 dollars was ponied up by individuals who work for BP. In addition, the giant oil company spends millions each year on lobbying to try to influence energy policy. BP’s lobbying effort for 2009 alone was 15.9 million dollars."
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