As the Truth sees it…

I still can’t believe that it’s 43 days and counting since the oil spill first started devastating the Gulf Coast. When I first heard about the British Petroleum oil well explosion, I thought it would be a quick fix and our attention would have moved on to something else by now.
But that is not the case. The 11 lives lost when the deep-sea oil well blew is the greatest causality. Yet, it’s the destruction of the regions fishing, economy and environment that has most people in an uproar. They do not know whether to blame BP for causing the disaster or the government for not taking control of the situation faster. In my mind, it’s BP. The amount of things they have done wrong leading up to the spill and since has been criminal in some respects.
But the blame game can wait. Thousands upon thousands of lives are being harmed by this man-made disaster. The only thing anyone should be concerned about now is fixing the problem and helping those who have been affected the most. Then let’s go after the ones responsible. There is plenty of time to make them pay, severely.
“We owe all those who’ve been harmed, as well as future generations, a full and vigorous accounting of the events that led to what has now become the worst oil spill in U.S. history,” President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
Michael Kinney