From LaVern F. Isely
Monroe
BP's Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward's testimony in front of Congress was disgusting, by seemingly pleading ignorance or pleading the Fifth Amendment, is not the way the head of an oil company should act. I'm trying to make up my mind whether the oil companies or the investment bankers are the most corrupt in this country. As for Republican Rep. Joe Barton from Texas, who since 1990 has gotten more than $1.4 million from oil and gas industry political action committees to his campaigns, most of any House member during that period, said Congress should apologize to BP. If this is an example of what the Republicans are going to do in the fall election, they're not going to show any leadership at all.
If free enterprise wants to get rid of all federal regulations and let any corporation do anything they want to do, you're just going to be experiencing a lot more federal bailouts and an increased amount of stimulus money and borrowing from various countries, as well as Social Security, because we just don't have the money to continuously finance the mistakes that corporations are making. As for their individual pay, while they think they should have more salary for doing a very poor job of managing, it isn't going to make any stockholder of that company any wealthier, only put the companies farther in debt.
BP told their employees on the oil platform not to talk to the media. Some did though and were classified as whistle blowers and the stories they told of why people were dying on the platform, particularly the story related on CBS's 60 Minutes, was downright disgusting. I'm just wondering how many years it's going to take to get the ecology straightened out for the politicians that were saying "Just keep drilling" and virtually have no back-ups concerning safety issues, other that we'll just blunder our way through and of course, we'll be calling ourselves conservatives, but with no plan at all.
This is why we should be increasing our money for education, not decreasing it. It's like a pin that my wife wears on her hat, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Monroe
BP's Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward's testimony in front of Congress was disgusting, by seemingly pleading ignorance or pleading the Fifth Amendment, is not the way the head of an oil company should act. I'm trying to make up my mind whether the oil companies or the investment bankers are the most corrupt in this country. As for Republican Rep. Joe Barton from Texas, who since 1990 has gotten more than $1.4 million from oil and gas industry political action committees to his campaigns, most of any House member during that period, said Congress should apologize to BP. If this is an example of what the Republicans are going to do in the fall election, they're not going to show any leadership at all.
If free enterprise wants to get rid of all federal regulations and let any corporation do anything they want to do, you're just going to be experiencing a lot more federal bailouts and an increased amount of stimulus money and borrowing from various countries, as well as Social Security, because we just don't have the money to continuously finance the mistakes that corporations are making. As for their individual pay, while they think they should have more salary for doing a very poor job of managing, it isn't going to make any stockholder of that company any wealthier, only put the companies farther in debt.
BP told their employees on the oil platform not to talk to the media. Some did though and were classified as whistle blowers and the stories they told of why people were dying on the platform, particularly the story related on CBS's 60 Minutes, was downright disgusting. I'm just wondering how many years it's going to take to get the ecology straightened out for the politicians that were saying "Just keep drilling" and virtually have no back-ups concerning safety issues, other that we'll just blunder our way through and of course, we'll be calling ourselves conservatives, but with no plan at all.
This is why we should be increasing our money for education, not decreasing it. It's like a pin that my wife wears on her hat, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
