Closer to shore, the efforts to keep the oil away from land have not fared much better, despite a response effort involving thousands of boats, tens of thousands of workers and millions of feet of containment boom.
From the beginning, the effort has been bedeviled by a lack of preparation, organization, urgency and clear lines of authority among federal, state and local officials, as well as BP. As a result, officials and experts say, the damage to the coastline and wildlife has been worse than it might have been if the response had been faster and orchestrated more effectively.
“The present system is not working,” Senator Bill Nelson of Florida said Thursday at a hearing in Washington devoted to assessing the spill and the response. Oil had just entered Florida waters, Senator Nelson said, adding that no one was notified at either the state or local level, a failure of communication that echoed Mr. Bonano’s story and countless others along the Gulf Coast.
“The information is not flowing,” Senator Nelson said. “The decisions are not timely. The resources are not produced. And as a result, you have a big mess, with no command and control.”
As I wrote in an earlier post, "Obama is proving his incompetence as a President of the United States in one word, containment!" (See "Why Obama is incompetent!")
1 comment:
Greetings Gus, It's always good to read your posts. You get it right much of the time. I wish I had the foresight to see the real Obama, years ago. I was naive to think Obama was different.
I could see fascism taking hold in America as the two-party system of government produced a sanctioned corporate state. With lobbyists and Congress swapping money and chairs with each passing election, I should have known better but I held out hope that Obama was different.
I believed him to be cleaner than H.R. Clinton as she was a *party insider* unlike Obama (cough, cough). Which meant Clinton was beholding to the corporate powers that be. Looking at Obama now, I no longer see hope and change. It's business as usual. I'm starting to think no one is able to get to Obama's position that isn't controlled by the corporations. Our Commander-in-Chief is Raytheon, General Electric, Halliburton, and BP to name a few off the top.
This thinking on my part leaves a mental void where political debate once thrived. If I live within a fascist society, what's the difference of Left or Right ideology? We're all slaves to the corporations.
Take care, Gus.
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