Friday, July 09, 2010
Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow? - WSJ.com
Here's a well written article discussing the answers.
It's NOT complementary to the governement or the administration...
It's NOT complementary to the governement or the administration...
Paul H. Rubin has this and more in the Wall Street Journal:
"As the government fails to implement such simple and straightforward remedies, one must ask why.
One possibility is sheer incompetence. Many critics of the president are fond of pointing out that he had no administrative or executive experience before taking office. But the government is full of competent people, and the military and Coast Guard can accomplish an assigned mission. In any case, several remedies require nothing more than getting out of the way.
Another possibility is that the administration places a higher priority on interests other than the fate of the Gulf, such as placating organized labor, which vigorously defends the Jones Act.
Finally there is the most pessimistic explanation—that the oil spill may be viewed as an opportunity, the way White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said back in February 2009, 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.'"
