Reply #12: I Got A Response

[ChoppinBroccoli]

Here's some long-winded, rambling thing that I'm not sure HOW it has ANYTHING to do with the subject, but this was his response to me:

"ok here is the logic...........same thing with ambulance chasers.......just like pain and suffering......this actually happened to my dad........as a dr he told a female patient that there was some abnormality in/with her breast......he was not specialized to diagnose whatever it was she had but he told her on 3 different occasions that she should go to a specialist ASAP, he had the medical records to prove what he had told her and even had her sign it the 3rd time he warned her.........so she stops going to my dad and like 6 months later she gets breast cancer.......and it was untreatable......so her only action was to have the entire breast removed........she in turn went to some bleeding heart liberal lawyer who took her case..........not only took the case but sued my dad and won 2.5 million dollars.......yes 2.5 million bucks.....for pain and suffering....they must have dug up the same jury that sat for oj b/c they found my dad guilty *(even though he showed the medical records in court THAT SHE SIGNED saying she should see a specialist)....... so what happens next my dad has to buy and pay out of his pocket for EVEN more mal practice insurance through absolutley no fault of his .......from that point on b/c of loser and a terrible attny. every patient my dad saw from that point forward was charged more.......every person who walked through the door was charged b/c of some loser looking to get rich and the jury sided with her............and her asshole ambulance chasing lawyer..........we need to allow the scumbags who seek wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much cash in these type suits to be able to lose and pay up so if you are seeking 3282328303 gazillion dollars from a person or a company if you lose then you must pay exactly what you are seeking.......that would put an end to that crap

how does the fit to this oil spill........if we want to make the liability for big oil rasied why not make it 1881818118 trillion why stop at 10 billion.......if the U.S. raises it higher the only thing that is going to happen is BP will increase the tax on every drop of gas..........thus meaning we will ALL pay more at the pump.......and if BP has to cover their asses every flippin oil company will do the same thing..........and it will all get passed down to the pump or our pockets........just like in the case of my dad........every one pays for the actions of one scumbag..........according to 3 diff online sources Bp has paid 29 million thus far with many many law suits waiting ......so my point is this let see what bp decides to pay out when this is all said and done........instead of big brother govt coming in and setting the mark at 10 billion......that is rediculous......if bp decides not to pay i say we as a country go after them for every red cent.......as i think the envimt. is worth protecting........that not only keeps fewer taxes out of our gasoline .......but gives bp a chance to make good.........again if they scam out of one penny i think we should sue them for that .......but the answers NEVER are found in big govt .......or in govt regulations......... the less govt is in our lives the better off we are..............again that statement was not mine but these words are.......

and one fact that is indisputable as long as we have a home grown terrorist loving president who believes in bill ayers notions we are in big trouble.........im out "


So, even though I probably should have just let it drop at that point, I responded with this:

"I'm quite certain that Conservatives in the 1860s whined that the cost of cotton would skyrocket when Lincoln freed the slaves too. The argument is just as valid today as it was then.

And if you've learned anything from this BP disaster, I would think you would have learned that private industry does almost NOTHING better than the Government. Within the last few years, you've seen pretty much every industry the right-wingers deregulated go down like a lead balloon, yet you still cling to this ideology that deregulation works. It only works when the people running the industry are ethical enough to police themselves. And as we've all seen, they're not. The proof that you're wrong is all around you. In fact, I defy you to name me a single industry that has thrived under deregulation.

Cheney's deregulation of the energy industry CAUSED the BP disaster, and your reliance on private industry to fix the screw-up has resulted in the worst oil disaster in the nation's history. And in case you haven't noticed, the oil is still gushing while BP shrugs its shoulders.

I hate to break it to you, but sometimes kids actually NEED their parents to step in and be the adults. I assume your parents didn't trust you and your siblings to "police yourselves" the way you implicitlly trust crooked, multi-billion-dollar, for-profit corporations to. Imagine where you'd be right now if they had."