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- Oh yeah, let's have BP dole out the nickles and dimes to people with legitimate claims and see how well that goes! I'm sure BP, who has been lying to everyone since the start of this disaster, will be more than fair with their payments to people who have lost everything they have and can't afford a lawyer to represent them. Those people will have no where to turn for help. I don't trust any large company in America to do the right thing without someone to supervise them.
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- Achtung! Achtung!
Attention all supplicants! By decree of our Dear Leader of the People's Republic of America, all claims for reparation are to be processed through the Office of Reparations and Resettlement. All those who have lost their jobs and property are ordered to present a obtain a valid National ID badge. Once you have received your National ID Badge, you are to bring ALL of your bank statements, tax returns, titles, and deeds to the Office of Reparations and Resettlement, where your property will be assessed and you will be presented with a certificate for a new FEMA Habitation. Once you have resettled to your FEMA Habitation, you will receive orders to report to the nearest Worker's Party Collective where your glorious new job awaits you.
All those with contaminated property must vacate within 90 days or a Worker's Party official will extricate you from your condemned property and you will face resettlement to a Worker's Reawakening Collective. All property reimbursements are non negotiable and are payable only in units of FEMA MREs. - Reply to this comment
- I do agree that BP needs oversight. IMO, if they could be TRUSTED, this accident may never have happened at all. If what the 60 minutes report revealed, is true, it was haste, lack of prudence and possible greed that caused all of this. So how can we trust a company that has not acted wisely in the past? Somebody needs to keep an eye on them for sure, IMO.
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- Someone said... "The USCG defended the coastal United States during WWII, and safely escorted Liberty ships bringing food and war materiel to Britain. Many escort vessels were lost protecting the slow, easily-torpedoed freighters."
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Wrong again.
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During WW2, the Coast Guard lost a total of 1,917 killed, wounded or missing.... while the CIVILIAN Merchant Marine suffered 21,521 casualties. - Reply to this comment
- The guys a Coast Guard Admiral for pete's sakes... he's never commanded anything larger than a rowboat.
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Now he's in charge.
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Only in America. - Reply to this comment
- If a truly independent 3rd party handles claims under the supervision of a court...fine, I have no problem with that...but that is going to take the involvement of a court first. When the government itself processes claims in the wake of a natural disaster, politics takes over and the politicians want to be seen as doing something...quickly. This translates into many, many scam artists looking for some free money and they will file claims in droves...and get it. Unfortunately, this has become the American way.
What BP should do is to establish categories of claims about which there is no dispute that they are responsible, negotiate a 3rd party arbitration system, have it approved by the court and step back. Then litigate any other categories of claims that they dispute. They could spare themselves a huge PR, administrative and legal headache by doing that. - Reply to this comment
- Not going to happen until after the court cases.
BP is paying upwards of a billion dollars already and will pay more.
Trusting the government witb your money is shear stupidity.
Fraud and government bureacrats do not make for a safe place to put several billion.
This is just politics. I am ashamed of a military man getting caught in this political maze. He is better than that. - Reply to this comment
- Allen said that the oil is spilling out at a rate as high as possibly 40,000 barrels a day, but "we'll only know what is flowing out of that well when we have it completely capped."
Uh,,,,,WHAT???????? - Reply to this comment
- Allen maintained, however, that BP was not to blame for the inaccurate figures about the size of the oil leak.
This guy spends more time defending BP than anything else. - Reply to this comment
- This guy should be saying, "Stop the leak", instead of saying "Show me the money."
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