BP Gives Up

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Give me a break. Your lust to say that gov't supervision would have prevented this is typical. What about all the other things that are under govt supervision like ...securing the border? LOL

You act like the socialist way is the foolproof way yet when given the example of Chernobyl (an energy related disaster run by a govt, not private enterprise) you act as if there isn't a connection.

What is really ironic is when you "put words in our mouths" which is what we are always accused of. No one has proposed "no gov't interference". Yet some of us realize that the gov't is hardly the foolproof mechanism that you want to believe it is.

"Verified whistle blowing" is something that happens after the fact. There is no reason to believe that even with tougher regulation that something as simple as human error couldn't lead to an accident. The fact is that usurping the rights of individuals or entities because you are mad is a dangerous thing, especially in the times in which we live where the people in charge of the country (both sides) seemingly have no bounds when it comes to politicizing an issue or situation.

OSHA is a bureaucracy that does little more than exist to exist like most govt bureaucracies.

We all know that big companies like BP don't care about much other than making profits. Really that is all they are designed to do. They are going to pay a huge price for this disaster. Maybe they will even get swallowed up by another giant company and not even exist in the future. Maybe PetroChina will buy them out. Think Obama will have tough talk for them?

Wow - all the straw men, false premises and gross generalizations in there, hard to know where to start.