At least president Bush was down in New Orleans 3 days after it hit. It took Obama 9 days to say anything about this. Katrina was an act of God, Is this an overseas contigency effort? or a man made desaster? I know it could not be terrorism as Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano can not use that word anymore and the borders are safer now than they ever have been with Mexico. RIGHT!
HOW IS THAT CHANGE WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
Please advise one specific intervention that the government could have done to mitigate the sitution.
The only thing I can think of is the President could have ordered a complete shutdown of all off-shore oil wells, but
even that action would have brought out the whiners who would have griped that 33% of our domestic oil production was eliminated.
At this point, let BP, Cameron and Halliburton pay to clean up the mess, and figure out how the $75 million dollar tort liability cap for oil spills will be apportioned.
The intervention would have had to take place years ago, requiring safeguards, when offshore drilling was authorized to the benefit of Halliburton, and big oil.
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At least president Bush was down in New Orleans 3 days after it hit. It took Obama 9 days to say anything about this. Katrina was an act of God, Is this an overseas contigency effort? or a man made desaster? I know it could not be terrorism as Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano can not use that word anymore and the borders are safer now than they ever have been with Mexico. RIGHT!
HOW IS THAT CHANGE WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
We can send a man to the moon but not cap off a oil well?
Politicizing this disaster is nonsense.
Please advise one specific intervention that the government could have done to mitigate the sitution.
The only thing I can think of is the President could have ordered a complete shutdown of all off-shore oil wells, but
even that action would have brought out the whiners who would have griped that 33% of our domestic oil production was eliminated.
At this point, let BP, Cameron and Halliburton pay to clean up the mess, and figure out how the $75 million dollar tort liability cap for oil spills will be apportioned.
The intervention would have had to take place years ago, requiring safeguards, when offshore drilling was authorized to the benefit of Halliburton, and big oil.