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The U.S government has demanded that BP, in addition to paying all cleanup costs, pay the wages of thousands of American workers laid off since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has refused to rule out seeking an injunction to stop BP from giving shareholders a £10billion dividend (roughly $14.7 billion) next month. BP is also threatened with prosecution if a government investigation determines possible wrongdoing in BP's management of the well.More Gulf Oil Spill Coverage:
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I live in Florida and this mess is headed my way.
Questions that need answers:
1. Don't we have a torpedo or missile that would close this hole is 2 seconds. If
we can blow up half a mountain with a bunker buster, why not an oil pipe.
2. Why weren't tankers ******* up immediately after the explosion. That one is on BP
and Obama for not accepting the Dutch offer immediately.
3. If Obama is summoning BP to give them an Ass Kicking, why doesn't Congress summon
Obama to explain why he has not solved this problem. I believe there is a huge
cover-up that is being buried right now. Maybe a new Conservative Congress will
get some answers starting in November.
"According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the President was the largest single recipient of campaign contributions from BP and its employees over the past twenty years."
Obama's in a tough spot and doesn't know how to disentangle himself from it. He can't really bite the hand that feeds him. He has many contributers to pay back besides BP. Money doesn't come without strings attatched. He's just beginning, and he'll use our money to do it.
.why has no one complained when the senate took ten billion and handed it out to other elected senators for votes during the health care debate? America was asleep, is still asleep and turns its back once again when oil companies pay off elected officials. You get the government you vote for.
June 13 2010 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAbsolutely no leadership skills whatsoever from this President... I knew we were in trouble when the white police officer and black professor got into a spat and Obama decides to have a beer with both men, what a JOKE!! I cant believe we elected this man into office... Mr. McCain, Im truly sorry that i voted for Obama
June 12 2010 at 8:49 PM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down ReplyObama just talks tough because that's all he has going for him. A Mouth that doesn't stop.
June 12 2010 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink +6 rate up rate down ReplyDoes that mean that Obama should step down for poor managment of our country as he puts us further into Debt and Recssion??
Obama should be careful of what his standards are for other People and Nation's
as he will have to live up to them.
The British have a right to be upset about their shares of BP going down the tubes. However, that does not excuse them from expecting the people from four states in the U.S. to stop being so angry. The British lose some of their shares. The U.S. citizens of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida (several million people and almost the size of Europe) have lost not only their jobs and pensions but also all wildlife from those areas will be nearly extinct. There will be no more fish, shrimp,oysters, whales, turtles, no more birds of any kind that feed off the ocean. Let them think this over before they start throwing stones at us.
June 12 2010 at 2:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI understand and agree with the British wanting to distance themselves from this Mega-Corporation. The British are genuinely disturbed and concerned about the Gulf, its wildlife, and us. British Petroleum, BP, is an international corporation owned, in no small part, by American investors. There is, however, one thing that bugs me. It's BP's use of "oil spill" to describe this disaster. This is no minor oil spill, or major one for that matter. "Spill" just does not do justice to the magnitude of this catastrophe. "Oil Geyser" is more descriptive but still falls short.
June 12 2010 at 2:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo the Brits are objecting to BP's ass kicking, or arse kicking. My heart bleeds. BP has a well-deserved reputation as a rogue outfit, taking short cuts, doing things on the cheap, skating by. Add covering up, lying, ducking responsibility to the mix. Well, the extent of the damage caused by the Gulf oil disaster may never be fully known. All I have to see is another pelican smothering in oil to not give a damn what the BP sympathizers think. We have been hurt and if the Brits can't see that, then tough s--t. I hope that the ass kicking has just begun. And while we're at it we need to kick all the asses in our own Federal bureaucracy who enabled BP to wreak this awful, unspeakable havoc.
June 12 2010 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink -5 rate up rate down ReplyObama's MMS should have been doing monthly drilling oversight inspections. In one year, not one inspection. If Obama's people had done their job, could the spill have been prevented? Or did he not hire people qualified enough to inspect right.
June 12 2010 at 1:29 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyIf Obama keeps attacking BP, BP could go bankrupt and not be able to pay for fixing oil spill.
June 12 2010 at 1:23 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down ReplyFollow Politics Daily
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