It is very hard to understand the paralysis of our government at every level in dealing with catastrophic situations. We saw Katrina coming, and did nothing until 3 days after when pictures were all over the television of people dying on the sidewalk. Appalling in the "most powerful" nation on earth! Now, we see the Oil Catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. We didn't see it coming until the night the rig exploded, (although knowing what we NOW know about MMS, we should have seen this coming), but that was 50+ days ago. What ineptitude! As David Gergen put it on CNN, if we had fought WW II with the same level of energy and organization, we would all be speaking German today. As someone else put it, this is the equivalent of putting our Apollo Astronauts on the moon, and then deciding we better make a plan to bring them back to earth!!
I don't want to point fingers--enough blame to go around, and blame doesn't fix the problem. As I watch economic lives go down the "drain" in oil and I worry about those still standing waiting for the catastrophe to hit them, I have to wonder what will become of us as a nation--what will we do when "the big" earthquake hits the west Coast, and we know it will? Nature has lots of catastrophes for humankind, and nature always wins--the question is how we deal with it. So far, the human race, for thinking it is so smart, has been terribly stupid!
Come on, folks--let's really be patriots, stop blaming, get down and dirty and clean up this man made disaster with whatever "elbow grease" and money it takes! To be really patriotic means to look out for your neighbor, your community, and your country--don't place blame--be a part of the solution. We will worry about "responsibility" for the catastrophe after we have cleaned up what we all played a roll in creating--the need for MORE OIL!
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