God Bless Ya, OM, but watch out for Don ... he's still a pro ' market can do no wrong ' and for the ' money making model of human being ' conservative !
Don, don't go wild with rage if you read this. I know you are coming around. On May 4, 6:13 am, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > President Barack Obama pretty much stated the obvious when he called > the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico “a massive and potentially > unprecedented environmental disaster.” > > The oil well pouring a river of crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn't > have the normal type of remote-control shut-off switch used in Norway > and the UK as last-resort protection against underwater spills, > largely because the oil companies themselves are responsible for > "voluntary" compliance with safety and environmental standards. > > It was in 1994, two years into the Clinton administration, when this > practice of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse was legalized, > about the same time George W. Bush was doing the same thing in Texas, > a program pushed hard in the previous administration by Dan Quayle's > so-called "competitiveness council" charged with deregulating > industry. > > The accident has led to one of the largest ever oil spills in U.S. > water and the loss of 11 lives. Voluntary safety for oil wells, but > you and I can get stopped by the police if we don't fasten our safety > belts? Eleven people have died because Halliburton and BP wanted to > save money. In the first hundred years of this republic it was > commonplace for rogue corporations to get the corporate death penalty > - being shut down, dissolved, and having their assets sold off. > Through the 19th century, it averaged around 2000 companies a year > that got the axe. > > If the Supreme Court now says that corporations are people - and they > did - then these corporations should be eligible for the corporate > death penalty. > > Time to break up and sell off the pieces of Halliburton and British > Petroleum. > > http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2010/05/halliburton-bp-it-time-corpo...
