Listening to the Senate hearing today with those companies responsible for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico felt like a molestation of catholic priest proportions. I’m telling you after only ten minutes of it, I felt like I had to give myself a head to toe Ped Egg scrub down followed by a cold, bloody shower. Because, clearly, Big Business has once again stuck their fingers straight up our asses when we weren’t looking while keeping a firm grip on our balls. I mean — you thought Goldman Sachs executives didn’t answer any questions. Holy fucking shit! BP, that group of Big-fucking-Pussies, certainly takes the cake on this month’s congressional hearings.
My favorite moment was when an executive was asked to give an estimate on how much money was dedicated to researching preventative measures on a possible oil spill and the executive could not give us even the slightest approximation. This is one fuck of a joke this fucking oil slick. And it’s going to be these same slick dicks that get off easy once again.
It’s the same fucking song as financial reform and it will continue to be the same fucking song until we hold our government officials to a higher standard when it comes to keeping big business in check. Much of this, of course, was set up by the Bush administration’s failure to implement the proper safety standards on companies carrying out offshore drilling. But the Obama administration can take its own blame for exempting BP from further environmental checks on its Deepwater Horizon drilling station. As such, there is plenty of blame to go around most of which we won’t even be aware of for months or years down the line.
In the end, though, the blame will only be put on ourselves if we don’t recognize that the primary villain in this gushing catastrophe is the greed of big business. You can preach all the laissez faire, hands-off-my-money bullshit politics you want, but all it’s going to do is distance yourself from the real problem, not make it go away. Because this shit will eventually bubble up into your fucking corn flakes with an attitude like that and, by then, it’ll be too late.
- Mr. Freemont Barrington / PI on BB BS
