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Ann Thompson just reported on MSNBC that "people are upset about the fact that the government did not take responsibility for the clean up"
BUT, consider the implications if Obama HAD kicked BP out immediately, and had committed the US government to the task of clean up.
The republicans would have been howling like a scalded dog about how we "can't afford it", and how it's NOT the government's job to clean up after private industry's mess", and how he would have to "raise taxes" to pay for the clean up, and how he was usurping private corporation's right to do business.
The only way to tackle this mess is to accept the fact that a private company may have just "killed" the Gulf of Mexico, do as much as humanly possible to ameliorate the damage, fine BP into oblivion and put that money aside for reparations to the people injured & for clean up, and then set harsh standards for the rest of the drillers..and if they refuse to comply, put them out of business & find someone who will abide by the new rules.
We would never allow GM to make cars that go 120 MPH, and have no brakes.. This is what we have allowed the drillers to do.. drill baby drill and never mind that you have no way to avoid creating a catastrophic oil volcano... a mile deep & out of reach..
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