By Captain Fogg
Can we call public reaction to the Gulf oil spill predictable? I'm not surprised that a CNN poll yesterday shows 47% don't approve of the way the President has handled it, but I would be surprised if many of that group really have no idea of what Obama has or hasn't done -- perhaps the majority of them, perhaps more. Of course the poll isn't scientific and it didn't ask how many people approve of BP's safety record or of the Halliburton safety equipment that failed. It's just another chance for people to show that they really disapprove of the man being in office. Another CNN poll today shows that 61% favor the continuation of drilling. I wonder how many of them live far inland.
Has anyone else noticed the lack of notice that 11 people are missing and presumed dead; either burned alive or drowned in the oil rig explosion and sinking? Shouldn't we be lionizing them for having died for cheaper oil which after all is the only thing that keeps us free and in God's good graces? No, that's predictable too. No talk of sacrifice when it comes to oil please, since it may lead some to consider what sacrifices are worth it and who should be making them. It may prompt people to ask whether the loss of jobs and industries makes the penny or two's difference in the cost of crude worth more and more destruction of the oceans we depend on for food and oxygen.
It's all too easy for us to keep the blinders on. We're too occupied with this week's groceries and next week's mortgage payment and American Idol and Obama bashing and besides we're so damned ignorant of how nature works we can't make the connection between the fish sticks and the fish they come from - if there is any.
Yes, the free market will take of everything and a bull will eventually find his way out of a china shop and besides I don't have time to care about it. I've got to pick up the kids from school and take them to soccer practice and yoga and put gas in the SUV . . . .
Well, BP's CEO says it's not their fault, it's the other guy's for making a faulty piece of equipment.
ReplyDeletePriceless.
It's like a surgeon coming out of OR to notify a family that their loved one died on the operating table, only this was not his fault, but the scalpel's manufacturer's.
And, oh, Texas governor says it's an act of God that could not have been prevented, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the industry's carelessness and abuses. This makes me think that Texans should keep their God to themselves, under wraps and safely tucked away from the human race and our planet.
My fellow humans disgust me for the most part. We won't be satisfied until we've destroyed every living thing on this beautiful planet.
ReplyDeleteIt pisses me off how the right talks about "next generation" when it comes to money but when it comes to the very air their breath they don't give a sh*t!!
How can your kids all become your beloved greedy pig Capitalists if they don't have a clean world to live on?!! They won't get it until it's too late and even I won't take joy then in saying, "I told you so."