There's a common thread that connects Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill......Katrina would have been an immense disaster no matter what. But it was far worse than it had to be because a conservative administration, one that fundamentally disdained the mechanics of government for ideological reasons, decided that FEMA wasn't very important. Likewise, the BP blowout was made more likely because that same administration decided that government regulation of private industry wasn't very important and turned the relevant agency into a joke. If you believe that government is the problem, not the solution, and if you actually run the country that way for eight years, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. But we shouldn't pretend it's inevitable.
-via Hullabaloo
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3 comments:
Progressive action on oil spill:
1. First, His Supreme Obamaness invokes his supernatural powers: "Plug the damn hole!" he shouts. No plan, no concrete ideas, JUST HOPE. This fails, and the Obamatons begin to doubt his supernatural powers.
2. The propaganda wheels start spinning, and when all else fails, BLAME BUSH.
Such is the state of progressive thought, and their justification for why they should have more power over us.
I don't see how this translates into a Republican vs. Democrat issue. What has Obama done to stop the oil leak? Today is day 42. One would think this leak would've been stopped by now. Time to "roll up the sleeves".
Yes, one would think that if private industry was so much better at doing things and didn't need more oversight then this thing would have been done already.
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