He Was Supposed to Be Competent

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Pop Sickle, May 28, 2010.

  1. I disagree.The public should never assume the risk or liability for a for-profit company imo
     
    #51     May 29, 2010
  2. It failed this time, right?

    So you propose to enlarge their budget/effort/law enforcement?

    Sounds like the "war on drugs" scheme to me.

    How's that working again?
     
    #52     May 29, 2010
  3. All these gov't regulators seem to be doing the same thing...

    http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...-gifts-viewed-porn-report-finds-update1-.html

    "MMS Employees Took Gifts, Viewed Porn, Report Finds

    The investigation by the department’s inspector general followed a 2008 probe of the agency that found illegal drug use and inappropriate sexual relationships between staff and industry contacts in an MMS office in Lakewood, Colorado."
     
    #53     May 29, 2010


  4. Child labor, 80 hour work weeks, unsafe working conditions, company stores, consumer safety, industrial plants dumping waste into rivers, unsafe and untested drugs, predatory marketing, price fixing, union busting... all this and much more are controlled through government regulations.
    Big companies did not stop these practices on their own, only through government regulations did they change their business practices. And even with these rules it is still a constant effort to catch business trying to get away with breaking the rules, just think what would happen if there were no rules.
     
    #54     May 30, 2010
  5. ...........and NOW obama can be the ONE MAN PARTY of "SPILL BABY SPILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" :eek:

    :D :D :D :D :D
     
    #55     May 30, 2010
  6. No, even better...........come on in as the Treasury Secretary! :eek:

    obama and his entire administration is EXACTLY like bush, clinton, clinton, bush, etc, etc, etc! If for one second you think obama is in any way, shape, or form, better than bush you have been CONNED again!!! THEY are ALL just continuing "Continuity of Administrations" selected (you call it elected) MINIONS of Globalist Wealth Entities.

    Your wondrous new minion con job can't even use the POWER of the United States of America to plug a damn oil well! So all you are LEFT with is more and more, day after day....................


    SPILL BABY SPILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:
     
    #56     May 30, 2010
  7. I think the only thing we may ever agree on is that billions of oil profits should have been spent on planning contingencies for such an event. Most probably thought measures were already in place.

    The remarkable thing is that Obama is taking most of the heat for this, largely from the left. (Visit the washington post, ny times, huffpost, etc...)

    If that isn't an argument enough against his competence... nothing short of accidentally nuking Canada, would convince them.
     
    #57     May 30, 2010
  8. jem

    jem

    You are focused on the wrong issue. Its the inactivity that seems so dreadful.

    The country is concerned about the lack of effective response.

    Obama stepped aside during the banking crises and it got him the job. This time stepping aside may have cost him the job.
     
    #58     May 31, 2010