Way to state the obvious, Mr. President. So in other news, the way to spell “the” is T-H-E, the iPod is the best-selling MP3 player of all time, and wood is highly combustible. Great.
So, since this is what passes as an educated comment these days, let’s break down how he (likely) arrived at this conclusion. It probably involves some gooey black liquid flowing out of a pipe and to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. This gooey black liquid (oil) gets all over the local wildlife and beaches, therefore killing the fishing and tourism industries. Nobody wants to get tar balls all over their sandals and nobody wants to eat oily seafood. I’m not a big fan of that fishy taste, and I heard oil takes that taste right out, just don’t try to cook it! It also impacts the local photography industry as nobody wants to look at pictures of an oily crane (well, the press has a sick appetite for those). Anyway, Obama is counting on BP to justly compensate for its damages. This is one rare instance where I would align myself with the social justice crowd.
There are all kinds of analyses of this issue coming from all directions. Those that align themselves with the mainstream liberal viewpoints pin all the blame on BP. They are waiting on the all-knowing federal government to assert themselves responsibility and get the mess fixed. I guess it’s really not that simple. That would kind of be like putting the White House in charge of a car company, when nobody in the government has run a successful car company (or successful business for that matter). Those on the right want either BP or the private sector to fix it. There are some good solutions out there, and I feel that the private sector would do a better job fixing it (or at least in cleaning up the mess) than the government would. The amount of finger-pointing from the Obama administration kind of ruined my confidence in them.
Brandon Backlin
