Finally, I'm Mad as Hell

In the wake of the latest corporate hypocrisy--BP asking for "patience" in dealing with the oil spill when they had no patience at all when we asked about possible environmental impacts--I am now as angry as the rest of the country. I want heads to roll, particularly those of the people I hold responsible.

So who do I hold responsible? Whoever argued for no regulations on corporate behavior should hang their heads in shame and go home. Whoever argued for trickle down economics (the money never trickled--it just stuck to the upper echelons), should go home. Whoever pandered to Americans by saying they deserved all the world's oil and were willing to send our troops to ensure its supply should go home. Whoever says "Oil spills happen" should go home--they don't happen, they are caused. Whoever said "Drill, Baby, Drill" should go home and drink an oil cocktail, because that's what the world's wildlife and people will be dinking.

This oil spill is a worldwide tragedy with the capability to end life as we know it. If you think I exaggerate, look at the gulf stream and how it flows into currents around the world.

Whoever said that making money was the American way and the government should get out of the way and go home. We human beings are greedy and we need regulations. Even the Bible has rules for living that basically say hands off your neighbor's property. You can imagine why those rules were needed even thousands of years ago--and there wasn't a government to blame then.

Look, you idiots, look at what your policies have brought us to. Look at the homes that have been lost. Look at the livelihoods gone. Look at the damage to the environment--all in the name of capitalist freedom. Who will you blame when the land is a desert from lack of water, when we are dying from the cancers caused by the chemicals around us, when the seas are dead, when the animals are gone, when wars are fought over food? Will unregulated exploitation of the land and corporate "freedom" seem so admirable then?

And now, you idiots, you have the temerity to want to put back into power those people with the same philosophies that got us into this mess, including a Louisiana congressman who wants to limit BP's libability for the spill. Are you insane? Are you so blinded by your team Tea-Party or Team-Conservative that you can't see the damage and you just want to win so badly that you don't give a damn if we destroy the planet?

Why do you insist on claiming that America is the bastion of self-made people? No one is self-made unless they never attended public school or state universities, never benefited from medical advances made possible by state support, never consulted doctors trained at public institutions, never called on the police for protection, never called the fire department, never demanded the government jail scammers and criminals. All you so-called self-made people are the first to bleat when something goes wrong that you think the government should fix so your miserable lives continue the same.

Well--let me be the first to issue a call for the planet. It's my home. Your idelogy and who is "right" matters not a damn to me. As far as I am concerned all religions and political parties can go over a cliff. If oil is the big problem,let's reinstate gas rationing. None of us has a god-given right to fly when we feel like it or to drive large cars across town. But doing so will mean that we--we who complain when the price of gas goes up over $4 when the rest of the world pays that for a litre--we will have to admit we serve the world and not the other way round.

I am not a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a member of either or any political party. I couldn't care less. I am a pragmatist and a realist. But I will say this: I will vote for anyone who has a shred of decency, is practical, and has the intelligence to look far ahead. I, for one, am not prepared to commit environmental suicide so some one can have gas to drive to the beach.