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Originally Posted by Caligari
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immediately shut down their off shore operations, incarcerate the stateside CEO's, find them guilty and summarily execute them.
Pretty extreme right? Think of it this way, BP, thru their negligence has allowed an ecological disaster which now dwarfs the exxon valdez scenario.
If, at the VERY LEAST, some of these fucking douchebags don't do 20 years for this fucking atrocity, the system is a complete failure.
oh wait, the system is a complete failure. nevermind.
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Let me play devil's advocate. This doesn't mean I believe this, but it has come to mind recently.
There has been a ton of talk about how Obama is a socialist and he is against capitalism and the free market. Isn't this BP spill something that should be left to the free market to handle? A true free market, so they say, works these things out. BP has dropped the ball and done damage that may never be repaired. So in theory if enough people disapprove of their actions they will stop buying BP gas and related products and BP will either go out of business or, at the least, lose its market here in the US. When they are gone other companies that will be safer and more responsible will fill in where BP fails and take over that market and all will be okay.
It just amuses me (and I'm not saying you are one of them) how so many free marketing tea party Glen Becker's were flipping out about bailouts for banks which probably helped to save a lot of jobs, but did increase our debt. They complained about how Obama was fucking up the free market. Now those same people are all over him for not doing enough. Now they want him to interfere in the market.
The bottom line is that you could march all the BP execs out into a field, shoot them all in the head and throw their bodies in a ditch and it won't stop the oil from leaking. If you are going to start shooting those responsible you need to add Bush and the republicans who helped him to make it so that the safety valves that would have shut this kind of thing off were not required because they were "too much of a financial burden" on the companies doing the drilling. Obama should take some blame, but he should not be alone
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