Memo to teabaggers and dittoheads: The BP Oil spill was caused by an unregulated free market

[scheming daemons]

The guilty party? Randian, "Atlas Shrugged"-ish, unfettered, free market capitalism.


Try all you want to pin this on Obama. Conservative economic philosophy is the culprit. BP was allowed to build and operate this rig with little or no regulatory oversight by Washington.


And why is there little or no regulatory oversight of the oil industry and their offshore drilling?


Ronnie's crusade against regulation and "big government" is why. Followed up nicely by the three Presidents that followed him.

[Andy823]

1. Yep!

Good old republican "deregulation" seems to be the cause of the majority of problems we now have in this country, but you wont' get those on the right to ever admit it!

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Agreed. Deregulation is to blame for many of today's ills.

40 years and counting. It is high time to rein them in.

[Enthusiast]

21. Good luck with that.

There will be no reining in. From now on there will only be corporate candidates. They might throw us a bone and tell us how happy we have it.

[librechik]

3. not to mention Bush-Cheney rolling back safety measures mandatory everywhere else in the world

so great to have a lawless society free of regulation. I feel richer already!

[RKP5637]

4. But ain't it the best country in the world! Who needs government, regulations

and socialism!

:sarcasm:

[virgogal]

5. So was the internet.

[tridim]

9. There are oil-spills all over the Internet

Here's a big one: http://www.freerepublic.com

Fortunately they can be contained.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Net Neutrality is a form of regulation against corporations on behalf of the

people; which make up the Internet.

Those corporations; would just as soon eliminate that First Amendment enhancing rule so they can control the traffic to benefit their narrow agendas.

[Enthusiast]

23. And that is why

there will be no Net Neutrality legislation.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Memo: Chernobyl was caused by communism.

:eyes:

[baldguy]

10. It was caused by a corrupt bureaucracy which compromised safety for their own personal profit.

Sound familiar?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. Yeah, it sounds pretty much like the entire human experience from the dawn of civilization. n/t

[Wednesdays]

14. They had offshore drilling during the dawn of civilization?

:shrug:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

16. No, but they had corrupt people concerned only with their personal profit.

This is hardly unique to any economic or political system.

[KittyWampus]

24. corruption isn't unique to capitalism but capitalist countries shouldn't embrace unregulated

industry.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. "corruption isn't unique to capitalism" was the entire point of my post.

Which was disputing the OP's assertion that this whole disaster was all due to capitalism.

[baldguy]

7. Oil spills, mine disasters, lead in children's toys, formaldehyde in drywall

poison in dog food, mortgage shenanigans, bank failures, etc etc.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Seriously, when are we going to get back to the good old days of leaded gasoline? n/t

[Wednesdays]

15. Ah, so you ARE in favor of government regulation.

Good for you! :hi:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. Um... I don't recall saying that I wasn't in favor of it. n/t

[Chemical Bill]

13. K&R. n/t

[Subdivisions]

17. 'Followed up nicely by the three Presidents that followed him.'

And the idiots that enabled them.

[felinetta]

19. Wonder when this truth will be known to all. How long will the media/repubs cover-up

[theothersnippywshrub]

20. I read that Rush Limbaugh hired a team of saboteurs to do it.

It was on the internets.

[Octafish]

22. It's too expensive to put in a $500,000 emergency kill switch.

And we don't want to reduce shareholder value, especially when so many of the rich turds who own it offshore their dough.