bobby jindal

[michigancat]

pffft.


http://firedoglake.com/2010/05/25/bobby-jindal-%E2%80%9Cour-way-of-life-depends%E2%80%9D-on-federal-government/

[Saulbadguy]

VOLCANO MONITORING?!?

[Kat Kid]

the market will solve for this.  bp and halliburton will just go out of business because the costs and negative publicity.

[sonofdaxjones]

Yeah . . . the Feds demand that they control this and that, and then when the $hit hits the fan, they suck.  

[Jeffy]

I like it that he's told the feds they are moving ahead with the construction of a sand barrier with or without a permit. 

[Goldbrick]

the market will solve for this.  bp and halliburton will just go out of business because the costs and negative publicity.

Costs and negative publicity might have more relevancy here if the corporations weren't using the government to get such perks as liability caps at 75 million.

If corporations have bedded politicians so much that the government is the right arm of corporations, is increasing the size of government the solution?

Think about that.

[Kat Kid]

the market will solve for this.  bp and halliburton will just go out of business because the costs and negative publicity.

Costs and negative publicity might have more relevancy here if the corporations weren't using the government to get such perks as liability caps at 75 million.

If corporations have bedded politicians so much that the government is the right arm of corporations, is increasing the size of government the solution?

Think about that.

this is the same guy who bitches about unions?

[Dirty Sanchez]

BP and Halliburton will not go out from negative publicity.  Especially in the case of Halliburton, who goes down to the local corner Halliburton store and buys a barrel of oil?  No one.  Their customer base isn't the public, directly anyway.  People can get gas at BP stations, but those are a small part of their business.

Does anyone happen to know what happened to Exxon after Exxon-Valdez?

[Goldbrick]

My overall outlook on governance is that we're mumped no matter what if our politicians are bought and paid for. But every catastrophe or every perceived 'wrong' is now met with questions of 'now how should we regulate this?!' which increasingly means pumping up the size of the government and thats supposed to be a solution. Its much more appropriately a trade-off at best.

And there is plenty of bashing to do for unions.

Speaking of Unions: http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2010/05/24/lawmaker-introduces-b-union-pension-bailout/

[michigancat]

BP and Halliburton will not go out from negative publicity.  Especially in the case of Halliburton, who goes down to the local corner Halliburton store and buys a barrel of oil?  No one.  Their customer base isn't the public, directly anyway.  People can get gas at BP stations, but those are a small part of their business.

Does anyone happen to know what happened to Exxon after Exxon-Valdez?

boom!  suck it, KK!

[Dirty Sanchez]

They're "too big to fail" 

[AzCat]

My overall outlook on governance is that we're fracked no matter what if our politicians are bought and paid for.

*ALL* politicians are bought and paid for; that's definitional, always has been and always will be.  The key is limiting and fractionalizing their power such that they can't do significant damage.  Since we've undone all meaningful restraint on political power in this nation over the past century or so we are indeed mumped.   

Of course the problem is really deeper than that: we've simply reached the point of societal exhaustion and are thus ripe for conquest.  I, for one, welcome our future barbarian overlords.   

[sonofdaxjones]

What I have always found fascinating about all the whining and crying about Haliburton (who were just granted another $500 million dollar no bid contract) . . . is that they owe their proverbial seat at the table to none other than Lyndon Banes Johnson who Brown and Root (actual people) owned lock, stock and barrel.   B&R was ultimately purchased by Haliburton, who then used B&R's political contacts with Johnson to win huge contractor deals in Vietnam . . . they also won billions in no bid contracts under the Clinton Administration.

So piss and moan all you want about Haliburton, but we can thank a Democrat for making them what they are today.