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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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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.

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.