After Andrew gets finished doing his work of spreading the oil far and wide we can only hope that they figure out how to cap the spill. I suspect the oil industry will rise to the occasion and make something work soon. Tax cuts will stimulate the economy. Companies will begin hiring again. The stalled economy will start to roll. Higher taxes is never the answer. The dems are likely to try and push through an amnesty plan for immigration. How is that fair to me? I didn't pay my car insurance and they impounded my truck, made me pay fines and I'm on super secret insurance probation for six months. But if I was just an illegal immigrant I could have free schooling, free health care and have any info I needed fed to me in my own language while I send most of my income back to the barrio. Could all that explain your headache Pam?

The oil leak is just being used like war or police action. As long as I can think of in history every time the US has started to struggle they have something major happen that places people back to work producing or cleaning up something.


So right now they are giving you tax cuts, placing our friends in a war zone and giving you the opportunity to work letting you clean up the oil spill. I feel that they love the oil spill because they are getting BP to flip the bill to place people back to work.


So to help things more let’s take away you right of free speech, you right to bear arms via a world agreement and regulate the content on the internet. The only part of this I would like is to regulate is only kiddy porn on the internet and other very bad content like it.


While I was not thrilled about the last election, I do not feel that we got the lesser of the two evils. I am under employed right now and refuse to make a change until we have change in 2012. I just don’t trust what is going on, the bills are paid and I am doing well.

So as long as your situation is not in danger....then who cares right?

I don't think I would make much of a socialist, so everyone get off their a** and find a job. Don't expect a handout from the government because the money really commes from an entity or individual that earned it.

What happpened to selflessly serving one's country when elcted to a leadership position instead of furthering one's status, power and career.

My mom's favorite saying about the current president is "boil him in oil."

Why have "pork barrel politics" been part of the system for centuries?

I'm also for the US carrying a "big stick and speaking softly", then using the bigstick to whack the hell out of individuals and countries when talking doesn't work.

I'm for eneregy dependence including off shore drilling and elsewhere.
Good to see a reckless oil company paying more of the bill. Hope they have to ante up more. It's shameful that so little has been done to curtail the oil flow.

Exploring alternative energy is great, but let's continue to develop cleaner ways to use sources we have , not forgetting nuclear power.

The government shares much of the blame for the immigration issue as it stands, mostly by looking the other way for decades. We need a secure border in these dangerous times. Also our national language is English and the flag is the red white and blue.

For anyone, citizen, non citizen or current president that wants to make excuses for this countries behaviour and denigrate it to others, get the hell out if it bothers or embarrasses you so much.

I have trouble believing the companies are struggling when the CEO, Chairman of the Board, Other board members, and the "pointy-haired managers" all get paid 1000x what I get paid, then lay me and 88 of my friends off, when they make enough to pay for 999 employees paid the same amount I made. The aforementioned fat cats can't reduce their salaries to save 88 jobs, when each of them has enough money save 999 jobs?!

They need to accept that being paid 10s of millions when the rest of us live paycheck-to-paycheck on 10s of thousands is NOT a sustainable arrangement. When everyone in the company is being paid on par with each other (commonly found in so-called small businesses) then we can talk about lay-offs.

SafetyGRRRRRRL I think you may have a bit of instigator in your blood I think WE should grab a cup of coffeee with ME sometime.

Don't impugn me honor boy.

The only reason I didn't serve in the military was because I'm 4-F

My Grandfather served in WWII, three of my uncles served in the Cold War.

Socialism is not the way to go, but bridled capitalism is. A great depression occurred in the late 1800s, and as a result, Theodore Roosevelt bridled Capitalism in the 1900s. Out of that we got the FDA, Public education, public sanitation, and a general ban on monopolies not instituted by a state government. In 1929 the horse of Capitalism took the bit between its teeth, and FDR re-bridled it with the New Deal which severely regulated utilities, imposed progressive taxes, and imposed regulations with benefits that today are taken for granted. In 2008, the horse again took the bit between its teeth and needs to be corralled and re-bridled.

Not all CEOs are Fat Cats. Some live according to Marx's dictates without government coercion.

Mr. Alfred (not his real name) makes 30 million, but shells out 29 million in operating costs, donates .97 million to charity, and lives on only 300,000, just 10x what I make. On top of that, he doesn't panic in a bear market, he just absorbs it and keeps going. We need more CEOs like Mr. Alfred.

Mr. Benji, on the other hand, makes the same amount only shells out 10 million and lays off employees whenever his cut of 20 million is threatened. He needs to be run out of town.

Calling me a socialist, spoken like a greedy sniveling FAT CAT: