re: #446 Cato the Elder

A job is a job.

Pity the poor people who are screwing the environment. They must be allowed to continue screwing it, because a job is a job.

BP screwed the environment.
Not the other oil companies, who operated with safety in mind.
Not the PEOPLE working for those oil companies, or the people who owned or were employed by the companies that supported the oil industry.

I’m absolutely amazed to see, coming from several folks here who are all sympathetic to people losing their homes because they were over-extended and were sold a loan they couldn’t afford, to be so damned callous about the economic devastation about to befall thousands of families, from a decision that was NOT recommended by that panel of experts and in fact, the members of that panel of experts are coming out and saying that the blanket moratorium was NOT what the recommended and will do more harm than good.

I’m just - speechless.