I found a way to shut up the right. I ask "who should pay for the oil spill clean up?"

[rhett o rick]

They wont answer. They dont like to think they will have to pay taxes to pay for the clean up, but they dont want the big bad government interfering with the "free market". Of course unfettered capitalism would not force the corporations to pay for their own damage.

[Ilsa]

1. This is how they'll react:

They don't think people should have to do anything to restore land and animals that they are borrowing from future generations. They don't think BP, oil companies, govt, or volunteers should waste their time cleaning up the land and water. They feel perfectly justified in destroying what Gawd has given them.

[JuniperLea]

3. That meme can only last so long...

This disaster will cut into the local capitalism... someone at the top with squeal like a stuck pig when their wallet isn't being infused, no question.

[Ilsa]

5. Let's hope they do. My fear is that the people getting hurt don't have

a loud enough voice to make it known, and that they big wigs at the top are diversified enough that they aren't hurt that badly.

[rhett o rick]

7. Yes, but capitalism always has the big capitalist eating the little capitalist. nm

[JuniperLea]

2. Good one! Then ask them how we should make sure this can't happen again!

They can't even speak the "r" word! Even though forcing BP to adhere to REGULATIONS would have saved us all a lot of money and sorrow in the long run.

Get that, Republicans? REGULATIONS would have saved us all TAXES! You dumbasses.

[havocmom]

4. Bet they don't wanna pay higher gas prices if BIG OIL has to pay either

No matter what, it's the taxpayer/consumer who will ALWAYS pay for corporate mis-deeds. The wingers never seem to come out against socializing the risks inherent with capitalism.

[rhett o rick]

10. Big oil can keep gas prices down because the get tax payer subsidies. The gullibles

are happy with low gas prices and ignorant about how much of their taxes go to the oil companies. Instead, where I live they are opposing taxes to keep the library.

[rudy23]

6. The free market will punish BP as it did Exxon! Why PREVENT disasters when you can LET them happen

and let people vote with their dollars to punish the offenders? That is, if they can sift through all the corporate PR, spinning the disaster away. What a great strategy!

[rhett o rick]

8. The cons love disasters. I remember when Katrina happened you could see the dollar signs in Bush's

eyes.

[rudy23]

11. In Louisiana, cons talked openly about seeing dollar signs.

Talked openly about a lot worse, too, related to Katrina.

[gratuitous]

9. Sen. Shelby has it covered

He's already bitching about regulators being "asleep at the switch" and failing to keep an eye on BP and its practices. Of course, whenever tougher regulations were being considered, Shelby was the first one there to squelch and stifling of the free market by the heavy hand of government.

But now? Well, that was yesterday. And the Nitwit Brigade doesn't remember anything from the past. Now it's all about how the government needs to save us all from this terrible, uhhhhhh, Act of God! Yeah, that's the ticket. It's not really anybody's fault, it's just something that happened. Nobody could have seen this coming, and now it's up to the taxpayers - all the taxpayers - to bail out BP and the Gulf states.