Ulterior Motives

A couple weeks ago, the federal government, the news media, and environmentalists nationwide were going into a hysteria regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Damages were predicted to be catastrophic and irreversible. This was billed as the worst environmental disaster in US history. Now according to this blog off of the drudge report, two weeks after the oil was capped, cleanup crews are already beginning to have trouble finding any oil to clean up. Why then if this event was so disastrous, are cleanup crews already starting to have trouble finding their next cleanup site? Could it be that the factions inflating the disaster were doing it for ulterior reasons? Could they have been using the event for political or monetary reasons? I think it’s fair to say that environmentalists will panic anytime a tree falls down, or any time a duck is caught in a plastic garbage bag, so it’s easy to understand that the environmentalists would exploit an oil spill like this one to promote their own cause; but why would the government exaggerate the oil spill? The answer is simple, and for a cause very similar to the environmentalists. They used it for their own political gain. By exaggerating this disaster, democrats hope to gain political influence among many of those affected. By putting pressure on BP the government is playing upon the fears and hopes of the costal regions. But even if pressuring BP to compensate victims and replace their current management might be a good thing, the government is doing it for all the wrong reasons. Rather than the good of the nation, the left wing officials behind this are more concerned with how their actions appeal to voters and how it might help them get their own legislation passed. Obama and the liberals in congress seek to pass a cap and trade bill that will greatly increase taxes, and increase their control of capitalist institutions. Seeing our government take these actions makes me remember that our government is supposed to be inefficient so that this course of action shouldn’t be possible. Change should come slowly and in cases regarding government takeover of privatized companies, change shouldn’t come at all.

To see background information regarding the rapid dissappearance of oil in the gulf click HERE