Re: Obama one of Greatest Teleprompter Readers of all time!

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/9/2010 1:25 AM, Doug wrote:
> "JoeRaisin"<joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
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>> On 11/8/2010 1:36 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The BP fiasco was no mistake - nobody is THAT incompetent.  He had to be
>>>> purposefully trying to make it worse.
>>>
>>> The reality is that after the event there was precious little that the
>>> government could do.  The US government should have had forced oil
>>> companies
>>> to have contingency plans in place to handle such a catastrophic failure
>>> and
>>> they should have verified the feasibility of these plans, not just take
>>> the
>>> oil companies word that they can contain any likely spill. The MMS and
>>> the
>>> industry it was supposed to regulate were just too close to each other.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The government could have allowed in the foreign help that was offered.
>>
>> The government could have done what has been done before and waived the
>> the EPA rules that prevented almost all skimmers from removing ninety
>> percent of the oil being released.
>>
>> Just for two.
>>
>> I'm not saying BP shouldn't have paid for it all - but the way it was
>> handled was akin to some schmuck starting a forest fire and the government
>> not doing anything about it, or letting anyone else do anything about it
>> 'cause that guy should be cleaning up his own mess.
>>
>
> The US government has no agency or branch of the military that could have
> capped the well any sooner than BP.
>
> Doug
>
>

You are absolutely right.

What they did do was prevent efforts that could have minimized the
impact on the environment.  Skimmers that cleaned 90 - 99 percent of the
oil were not allowed to operate.

It's the old saying - lead, follow or get out of the way - in this case
the government was decidedly in the way.