Not dying fast enough to suit Dark Lord Obama. Why do you think he ran interference for so long?
The problem is that all these industries are coming back and the spill will be a small blimp on the radar of time. The percieved danger, over-hyped damages and over-reaction of the government / media are a far more threat to the person livelihood than the spill.
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Everyone seems to be calling the Deepwater Horizon spill the worst environmental disaster ever, but rumors of the Gulf’s death may be greatly exaggerated, writes Michael Grunwald of TIME. While there could be long-term ramifications from the spill, the damage so far actually looks pretty modest. It’s killed less than 1% as many birds as the Exxon Valdez spill, for example, and the region’s fish and shrimp have so far tested clean.
As for Louisiana’s marshes, the spill affected only about 350 acres of wetlands that were already disappearing at a rate of 15,000 acres a year thanks to oil and gas industry pipelines. One LSU professor likens the spill to “a sunburn on a cancer patient.” This is lighter crude than the Exxon spilled, experts explain, and Mississippi river currents are keeping it off the coast. “We’re not seeing catastrophic impacts,” says one marine scientist. “There’s a lot of hype, but no evidence to justify it.”
“Our Soul Is Dying”
Shouldn’t that be “Our Sole Isn’t Dying After All”
As one who lives in LA., I have seen the economic devastation in this state, since the 0ness has been elected. Car dealerships closed, because they (as reported) supported different points of view. Car manufacturing plants closed and not re-opened, even after government ‘seizure’. Foreclosures are increasing. International Paper mills shut and locked. Michaud NASA performing a jazz funeral, for the LAST fuel tank for the space shuttle, now pondering its new political direction. The oil spill has put a ‘taint’ on all the sport-fishing, shrimp trawling, oyster bed farms, and not to mention freshwater crawfish and catfish from the creep of contaminants, now told to be ‘over-toxic’. We may be 49th in the ranks, but you just killed us all!
It’s getting better. Take a look: