INVOLVE NOBAMA AND BP

Is anyone else sick and tired of officious, intermeddling, pundits knowingly declaring that we were far better off letting BP handle the deep-sea oil gusher because BP has more experience than the federal government? Many of these same experts also declared that a disaster of this proportion has never before occurred. These statements are false and misleading.

While it is true that BP has more technical, spill-specific, knowledge (like how to operate deep-sea robots), it is well-within the power of the Government to aid and regulate how BP conducts the cleanup operation and deals with residents. The Obama Administration should have immediately taken charge of the coastline cleanup (particularly beaches, wetlands, and river deltas) together with rescuing and relocating contaminated wildlife. The Administration could also have: overseen whom BP employed (insuring employment opportunities were first offered to local residents); and, monitored payment of restitution to people financially damaged by the disaster. In reality, there is very little the federal government could NOT have done or overseen from the very beginning of this catastrophe. Considering President Obama’s remarkable intelligence, it becomes a huge stretch to believe that he simply overlooked his obligations to Gulf Coast residents for 6 weeks. It does not make any sense unless done intentionally. The only alternative is that the Obama Administration is negligent or, worse, inept. In fact, with all the “big guns” pointing at BP, no one will ask (and the Administration will never answer) these troubling questions.

Allegations that a tragedy of this nature has “never occurred before” are also false. While the facts are not precisely analogous (when are they?), reports state that the disbanded Soviet Union successfully sealed deep-sea wells, ending spills similar to the Horizon disaster, by setting-off small nuclear devices. While it sounds alarming, Soviet reports specify that the strategy was utilized safely and successfully 6 times. Moreover, the Russians offered to teach the procedure to engineers in the United States. Each nuclear device cost approximately Five-Hundred Thousand ($500,000) Dollars - significantly less than already expended in the Gulf and a proverbial “drop-in-the-bucket” with respect to anticipated costs and expenditures in the billions. Everyone understands that any financial costs are insignificant in comparison to the human suffering and environmental damage the disaster will reap.

American’s tend to bristle whenever the term “nuclear device” is even mentioned, but considering all the damage already done, as well as the impending damages, the risk and expense pale by comparison. The media should have been screaming this solution from the rooftops instead of declaring that a deep-sea gusher is unique and has no known solutions.

This example clearly demonstrates how the utilization of governmental resources and wherewithal might have ended the disaster long-ago. This idea should have undergone strenuous consideration and open debate. Even if never attempted, the open forum could spark other ideas about how to resolve the situation. At the absolute bare minimum, it raises substantive doubts concerning the Obama Administration’s contention that: “there was nothing we could do.” Furthermore, it lends significant credence to speculation that the Obama Administration’s inept performance was a thinly veiled ploy to promote its own leftist ideology.

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