I decided to ask everybody.
The United States Coast Guard who has been there since day one and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce.
The "Drill baby drill" crowd is now first in line to criticize President Obama. What a bunch of anti-American conservative hypocrites.
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How many times have you heard, "The private sector does everything more efficiently and effectively than government?" Right. Not this time. Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device,
The oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn’t have a remote-control shut-off switch used in two other major oil-producing nations as last-resort protection against underwater spills.
So once again the private sector screwed up and created a disaster that is way, way beyond private capabilities to fix things… and again it is government to the rescue: US military joins Gulf of Mexico oil spill effort. But government coming in after the fact to clean things up after the private sector created a major disaster is a very expensive way to do things. Maybe we ought to revisit that "government is bad" ideology that let’s this kind of thing happen over and over again.
Anti-government ideology? Deregulation ideology? I wonder where it comes from? Well, all that Koch money you may have been hearing about, funding the Tea Party movement, funding the climate deniers, funding all that anti-government, anti-regulation crap — that’s oil money. Exxon, Schell and BP are in that mix as well.
This stuff follows a model developed by the tobacco companies to keep their franchise going after it became clear they were profiting from a product that was killing people. The model is to fund a political movement to throw as much smoke as possible in the air — "doubt is our product" — get people arguing about "personal responsibility" instead of our community responsibilities to each other, and turn people against government so it can’t regulate. It works: tobacco still kills over 400,000 Americans a year and it’s still legal — and still very, very profitable. Revise and extend the model and you have today’s conservative movement – a pay for play operation serving the biggest companies.
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The "Drill baby drill" crowd is now first in line to criticize President Obama. What a bunch of anti-American conservative hypocrites.
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I find it amusing that NOW liberals are blaming state officials for inefficient response to a New Orleans disaster.
I wonder what song you would be singing if Bush had acted in the exact same way – oh wait, we already know…
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