Hey sp332, I'm with you. We are a capitalist country and personal property is sacrosanct. In an era where the Government is looking to takeover virtually everyt

Hey sp332, I'm with you. We are a capitalist country and personal property is sacrosanct. In an era where the Government is looking to takeover virtually everything in sight from how health care works, to how we make cars to how Wall Street operates how can this calamity be off limits? If media reports are to be believed [1][2], which are the best we can go on at the moment, I have no doubt that BP will be shown to have been negligent and hope against hope, criminally at that. I can only hope that BP execs do hard time for this. Will you say that this is not an environmental catastrophe? As an environmental catastrophe is this incident not a national security incident? How can the only answer to this problem be that BP be in charge of fixing it? It would be like saying that Lehman Brothers broke the economy and they are the only ones who can fix it. Obviously that is not the case as evidenced by the Governments extreme, forceful and more than a handfull of people would say illegal intervention. Where is the extreme, forceful intervention the nation is begging for now? How can the POTUS be impotent when we need the "buck" to stop with someone who has the power to do something meaningful? Ya, I'm mashing a whole bunch of things together but, eh, whatever. When virtual numbers flash on a screen in the wrong directions the world basically comes to a halt and there is no limit to the power and absolute authority of the Government. But when an actual real life, physical catastrophe is at hand, the Government is impotent and has no tools or imagination at it's disposal. It's all just sickening and shameful. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30rig.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30rig.html [2] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490197.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490...