http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37338000/ns/business-oil_and_energy BP was cited 4 times criminally in the last 10 years and each time they got off with a "next time we'll do better" response. :roll: :roll: "In the past decade environmental accidents at BP facilities have killed at least 26 workers, led to the largest oil spill on Alaska's North Slope and now sullied some of the country's best coastal habitat, along with fishing and tourism economies along the Gulf. Meunier said that when a business with a record of problems like BP's has to justify its actions and corporate management decisions to the EPA "it's going to get very dicey for the company."
I can envision the company edict: Damn those warning signs.......and if you don't like it find another job..... "http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/25/oil.spill.investigation/index.html" Seriously....my wife and I both are highly suspicious of this "siphoning" plan they have been using while so much other oil continues to escape and foul the Gulf. They are filling a ship....salvaging the oil.....and getting nowhere stopping the spillage. Something is fishy other than the dead fish.... And now Obama is saying what he should have been saying 30 days ago: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20100525/POLITICS-US-OIL-RIG-OBAMA-TRIP/ "Plug the damned hole"
Ah but at least the Administration is going all out http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/EPA_head_to_headline_fundraiser.html And Dem partisans are impressed with Obama's action http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-carvilles-epic-rant-on-bp-oil-spill-is-he-auditioning-for-cnn-8pm/ Meanwhile after weeks of waiting for a decision by the army corps of engineers, Gov. Jindle has had enough. http://www.necn.com/05/23/10/Jindal-tired-of-waiting-for-approval-to-/landing.html?blockID=240006&feedID=4215 After a year and a half the incompetent boobs in Wash. have no clue how to get the economy going again. (ah but the know who to blame) Now after more than a month of this terrible disaster they do nothing but stand on the sidelines and point the finger at others. Does anyone want stupid clowns like this running health care?
Whaddya think Gipper....George.....BT wherever you are... ,,,are these guys just trying to take advantage....get a free ride.....join the socialist train that Obama has started down the tracks? Would you feel that way if it was your son??? http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/27/gulf.oil.liability/index.html?hpt=T1
George...I I am pointing to the "big business is always right" and the "little guy only wants a hand-out" crowd that is so pervasive here. It's not always cut and dried.
Hey, we live in a society where whenever anything bad happens it has to be somebody's fault and somebody has to get sued. Thank goodness. I made a pretty good living from that mentality. Often when workers die from work related accidents their recovery is limited by Workman's Compensation laws. Like the families of soldiers who give their lives for their country their families recieve only a small portion of what these litigants may get. These folks may well get sympathy, publicity and big money. And they make good bb material.
Where do you find the rationale for connecting the sad stories of the survivors of this horrible tragedy to the ineptitude of the administration in dealing with it? Unlike my conservative friends here, I have no ideological ax to grind with the administration. My observation from the sideline tells me simply that the president is treading carefully so as not to denigrate the big companies that have contributed so much to his campaign coffers in the past. It's politics as usual. It's sad. It's deplorable.
That truly is deplorable if true and it will cost him. My point about the pervasive thought is it seems as if the average American is not thought much of around here when he needs a little assistance. I can absolutely tell you that there are already thousands of families...probably hundreds of thousands that have been negatively affected financially by this disaster. Think about it....even the single mom waitress in coastal Alabama working at the fish restaurant is probably seeing her income reduced dramatically due to a lack of beach tourists and I for one hold BP directly responsible for that. If someone here disagrees with that thinking in the slightest.....then it is THAT type of thinking I am referring to.
Hell, most of them are just Southern crackers. Doubt that this administration really cares much. Now if it were residents of New Orleans the we yelling for help, we'd see some action.
Interesting that I just read over lunch an article written here in a local paper regarding Orange Beach, Al. and places like the well known "FloraBama" bar being far down in patronage from oil-avoiding tourists. Maybe that waitress I described who is having trouble with her light bill and car payment works there. I'm sure she's quite a BP fan.....
As a fisherman, boat and beach lover these photos sicken me. You really do have to ask yourselves " what have we done ". http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html
Powerful photos George......very tragic. When you look at the deep blue, pristine water of the surrounding Gulf and then see the enormous mass of oil fouling that beauty it truly is sickening.
The ineptitude continues.... http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/29/us.gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1