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[openscarf]

This in Huffington Post this morning. There are two stirring and quite awesome original songs in here, two different styles. Check it out.

People in Louisiana who've made their living all their lives from the land and the sea, now shut out of the entire process. Why aren't people being trained to clean up the waters and beaches and marshlands? Why aren't they being trained to clean animals?  Here is an opportunity for job training and education, in the government's face, being ignored. But day in and day out, we hear about job training.

Big oil in charge.

Spin, spin, spin. Here are people that want to work, that love their state, that need money, that need to feel that they're a part of this country and are important to whatever new emerges as industry in LA, and they are just brushed aside. Fill out your claim and get your check. Let us (gov't and big oil) take care of all this. Chuckle, chuckle. Don't worry your little heads about it.

I don't understand what we're holding up as such a beacon of hope. Who's falling for it? Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

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[wlotus.livejournal.com]

And in the long run, those same people will be told to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps", as if that is what Big Oil is doing.

That is NOT what Big Oil is doing; Big Oil is being spoonfed by the government...the same government that tells us we don't deserve "handouts" likes extended unemployment benefits, more social programs, etc.

What hypocrisy.

[openscarf.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. They work hand-in-hand. This is proof beyond anything I've ever seen. People being turned away from THEIR land.

I'm not sure, that even if a third party (not the Tea-birthers) but a progressive/green party, if one could get to the top and compete with this one party system we have, if they would actually be able to significantly reflect what the people wanted. Would they be constrained or corrupted or seduced too?

I don't like not being able to foresee a solution or way out of this governing system we have, for the money, not the people.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, a third party would be great, just to give The People more options. But I have little faith any other party that got as big as the two biggest ones would get that big without corruption, without losing sight of the people they claim to represent.

I don't like feeling that way, either.

[dadadadio.livejournal.com]

I've been working on a gulf blog post but found writing it makes me angry. The television public relations campaign by BP is pissing me off. YOU SCREWED UP. Instead of trying to convince us you're compassionate and taking responsibilty why don't you give the money you spend on P.R. to the victims.

Those 30 second television propaganda spots cost millions.

[openscarf.livejournal.com]

I agree, they're inane, I have to switch channels and hope I don't run into Meg Whitman (Republican governor candidate here).

What bothers me more than Big Oil though is my reluctant acknowledgment of our own gov't's role in it all. I think they'll throw money at the residents for a while and then down the road, like wlotus said, tell them to pull themselves up. They'll shame them, leave them.

I expect nothing from Big Oil. I'm still naive enough to think that the gov't's job is to take care of its citizens. Not just the rich ones.

It drives me crazy that the people in LA have nothing to do. "They" won't let them take part in the fix. I think most of them probably don't revile Big Oil as much as some of us because it does provide a livelihood for them.

Training them to clean up, regulate, explore alternatives,something, there's tons of jobs training grant money being awarded all over the country. They need to be self-sufficient again, in some way including them is what's needed. They make their living in the gulf and they've been banished. It just kills me. They're treating them like children, but I guess we're all treated in some way, by gov't like that.