Reply #9: Well if we use that "logic" this country elected Bush twice. [View All]

[JoeyT]

So we deserve the godawful unemployment rate, fucked up tax system, ruined environment, and multiple wars. We're all to blame for human rights abuses, too. So we can never mention any of those again. Anything else would be hypocrisy.

The pampering of the oil industry was done on a national level. Not a single person in any of these states had the least bit of regulatory power over those rigs. And yes, you ARE defending BP. You're demanding the people that live in the area accept responsibility for something they had NO power over. Florida didn't have offshore drilling, yet their coasts are just as ruined as Louisiana's. A lot of people were fighting offshore drilling in other states too. Of course they don't matter: It's more important to blame the victims so it isn't apparent how shitty the response to the spill is. Otherwise people might start asking "What the hell is the government doing during all of this? Isn't the EPA supposed to stop oil from going into landfills?".