Libertarians & Tea Baggers are doing a heck of a job! Ask BP and Gulf Coast folks.

[Democrats_win]

Keeping government out of BP's business was a great idea. Imagine if the government had told BP to have a redundant blow-out valve as is required by Brazil or Norway. Gosh, BP would have paid an extra half million dollars. Instead they get to pay billions of dollars, just a fraction of the actual cost of this Gulf Coast Libertarian utopia!

One more time: the government ALWAYS gets invloved. The question is, WHEN will the government get involved. Will it be before disaster strikes or after? Will it be when the cost is realatively low or catastrophically high? Libertarianism and the Tea Partiers believe it should be the latter. They are wrong, and the news, every single day proves it.

Don't believe this? Look at the foreclosre crisis. These mortgage brokers were unregulated and they drove our credit system into the ditch with liar loans. Then the government got involved and paid trillions to bail them out. Wouldn't it have been bettter to prevent disaster before it strikes?

Libertarians and Tea nut baggers might argue that STILL, the government shouldn't get involved. But do you want to live in the Tea Party Depression or the Golf Coast literally BLACK sea? WE the people must make our government stop these irresponsible capitalist pigs. Just think, many of these pigs are just leverage buyout thugs. Today, they're called "Private Equity Firms." They don't even care about the companies they buy, so why should they care about the people and the environment. That's why the government MUST get involved before these criminals destroy us all.

[MindandSoul]

1. Well said!

[rudy23]

2. The spin on the libertarian boards (I've been arguing):

1. The government should not have regulated that they drill in such deep waters
2. If the government had not capped BP's liability, they would have more incentive to self-regulate
3. (I wish I was making this up) BP will pay in the form of boycotts

I pointed out that with regulations, you don't have to wait around for disasters to happen, and hope the oil company's PR team doesn't just overpower the facts. With common sense regulations in place, you can actually PREVENT disasters!