Where are the leaders?
On April 20th, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
It did not require a great deal of intelligence or education at that time, to see that this was going to be a truly devasting environmental event!
What it required was swift action from our leaders to get the hole plugged and begin corraling and capturing the oil. But, for WEEKS, nothing happened.... As Obama put it - "BP has to deal with it".
It wasn't until 2 months later, that the President actually went to look at this MASSIVE problem!
The Government then compounded the effort to contain this by assigning an incompetent Coast Guard Admiral as overseer, by refusing assistance from other countries, and by piling on a huge bureaucracy of federal agencies which have no ability to fix anything.
From the top down, there has been no leadership! At any time, the President could have stepped up and allowed a bypass of the Jones Act to allow for outside assistance! He could have become a leader rather than one of the flock. This is what we expect of our President.
In fairness, we need to include all of the Senate and the Congress, as well as all the environmental groups, and all the oil companies in our derision. Where is the outcry from the Republicans, from the Sierra Club, from Greepeace,....? Where is the technology which the oil companies are supposed to possess to address this?
They all should be very very very very ashamed! You are a despicable lot for not stepping up and speaking up! THIS IS NOT A REALITY SHOW! IT IS REAL LIFE AND DEATH AND SUFFERING!
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