On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:14:39 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

sandy wrote:
I couldn't tell from reading rdean's post (above) what he was trying to say. ...

Allow me to translate.

The oil spill clean up is going to cost way too much. BP is going
to get screwed, the taxpayer is going to get screwed, money will
be wasted hand over fist just like after Katrina.

Not quite - no one can predict the future, so there is no way to know if money
_will_ be wasted hand over fist, but every indication thus far points toward it.
And from a financial standpoint, no one, including BP, should "get screwed" in
this.

All you really
have to do is get rid of OSHA and the EPA and the unions, especially
the unions,

No union is involved in this, and the major issue with any involvement by the
EPA or OSHA is those agencies attempting to "shoehorn" the cleanup into existing
rules that aren't truly applicable.

and all the greedy, unscrupulous folks who were poor
before the disaster anyway,

Oops, nope. Thus far, while some of the players involved aren't exactly
wealthy, very few, if any, "poor" people are getting anything (just like the
Katrina aftermath) and likely will not - you cannot compensate an unemployed
person for income they didn't lose, and you cannot compensate, for example, a
roofing laborer or Mickey D's burger-flipper for income loss when they have
suffered none. Most of those who stand to see a windfall in this were at least
moderately comfortable prior to the spill, and the biggest windfall will, again,
go to those at the upper levels of the pyramid.

and the the whole clean up can be done for $29.95.

Never even suggested such a thing.

HTH,
R