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Originally Posted by Emmerich
Barton may agree with the concept of a fund, the problem is if Obama is trying to "force" it, that is illegal. And it is really stupid to try and piss off the company/people that will most likely fix the problem.
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Illegal? BP does quite well leasing drilling rights from the US govt. Our govt. should not be required to rely on the good graces of a multi-national corp, particularly one that benefits by association with it so well as BP does.
The unconscionable string of cost-cutting decisions BP made leading up to this event strikes me as sufficient grounds to seize assets, and more aggressively than was done at this point, if that had been needed.
Otherwise, large corps have become rogue nations, essentially, and we're heading too much that direction anyway.
06-17-2010, 02:35 PM
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