BP , one year later: record profits, record cash, stock up, Gulf victims STILL not "made whole".

[dixiegrrrrl]

"I don't know of one person who has come to me and said, `I've been made whole. I feel good.'
Everything is completely negative from everybody," said Louisiana fishing guide Ron Price.

But, didja notice, there has been almost total silence by the MSM bout the Gulf.

Good article on BP as tomorrow is ONE year after this foreign oil company destroyed most of the Gulf of Mexico.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill_bp_moving_on

( yes, I admit to bias. I am furious, this happened in my backyard)

[OHdem10]

1. Being Made Whole was not good expression in the first place.

I am not defending BP, but saying made whole raised
expectations.

That kind of destruction lasts much longer than any
company could be expected to pay.

[TheKentuckian]

7. If you can't be expected to pay then you shouldn't be allowed to play.

They should spend themselves into oblivion. They are extracting our resources and allowed to generate great wealth from the commons. It is only rational they be expected to own the downside.

[CrossChris]

2. I don't think the rest of the country can comprehend how big of a disaster they can cover up.

If anything truly terrible happens in the US, with a large death toll, you won't hear a goddamned thing about it.

Your entire state can be wiped out, and they can sweep it under a rug, and keep on trucking along like nothing ever happened. They can wipe the event clean in the rest of the nation's eyes with a few talking points, and coverage of celebrity gossip. And we'll all be left here to scream about it to each other in our echo chamber--and not much else.

[spanone]

3. that's the america we've become

[Coyote_Bandit]

4. I also noticed

that there has been almost total silence by our fucking national political leaders about the Gulf. None of them seem to be making the least little effort to see that the victims are adequately compensated.

Once again government betrays the needs and interests of its flesh and blood citizens in the interests of a fckoing multi national corporation......

[Snoutport]

5. Their stock is up because they showed they can get away with ANYTHING

Grrrrr.... BP execs should have to live on the coast and catch their own food off of the beach for the next ten years. I'd bet the beach would be cleaned up REAL fast if that was the case.

[global1]

6. Somebody Should Put The Question To President Obama.......

Mr. President - here we are a year later after the disaster and of the 20 billion you negotiated with BP to put aside to pay for peoples travails - they've only spent around 3 billion. What are you going to do today to make sure that BP keeps its promise and reimburses the people of the region?

Also - I heard on the radio that there are companies drilling in the Gulf again even though the U.S. hasn't let them. How do they get around this you ask? Well they go out beyond the limits of the U.S. control over the Gulf and into international waters and drill there. This is what I heard on RW Neocon radio last week in Dallas. Is there any truth to this?

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Lots of companies do indeed drill in "international waters"

Actually, they park the rigs in international waters and then slant drill into USA waters.
The Gulf floor ( sea bed)is covered by miles and miles of pipelines crisscrossing every which way.
some are producing, some are capped, a lot are leaking, and apparently no safety rules are being followed.

[Poboy]

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