Tuesday, June 22, 2010

No leadership

Oil continues to gush into the USA Gulf Coast area, fouling everything it touches. Death and Destruction are visible on every side. Now for over 60 days the onslaught has continued and one must wonder how much longer before it can be stopped. A look at the US government response is eye opening. The main actions taken are lot of hot air and getting lawyers involved to see who can be held accountable along with possible criminal charges. The offers from other nations willing to help ignored or just refused. Blaming BP for problem and strong arming them into setting up fund to pay damage claims run by the government seems to be the priority. Now nothing wrong with making sure damages are taken care of BUT the focus needs to be an all hands on deck approach in working to stop the oil from continuing to flow before it starts to cause damage to other nations and destroys ocean eco system for years to come. The sad thing is that the US government encouraged the deep water drilling with no viable data in how to handle a ruptured pipe problem at such a depth. Now we have the problem and no workable plan to fix in a reasonable time frame. No leadership from Washington DC and BP with out the power and resources needed to fix before it became a major problem. The one time a problem is large enough to actually need government to step in to coordinate the containment and clean up effort and all we get is talk about paying for damages and who should be blamed. There is a time for everything and now is the time for action to stop the flow of oil and after that has happened THEN it will be time for blame, investigations, liability, and paying for the damages. If the government cannot answer the bell for this issue how can it be trusted to run the health care system effectively for over 300 million people. Another nightmare waiting to happen. We vote in those who have not only no experience in the real world but no clue as to how to lead in a critical time. Is it any wonder why excuses seem to be the rule of the day by those who are blinded by their ideology even while walking in darkness. Interesting times are upon us indeed.

2 comments:

  1. good day to you one, yes im am wondering some of the same things.....blame, instead of action. I watched some of the lets try and blame one man court or whatever it was last week, i couldnt watch it for more than ten mins as it just looked and sounded so fake and needless for today. imagine in the world we live in today and they say "we cant fix it" im disgusted they havent got on top of it myself, what a complete shambles !!!!

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