First, I blame the oil companies.

[MrScorpio]

They've ALWAYS been run by greedy bastards.

And their culpability in crimes against humanity and the Earth is much too long for one sitting. I want to keep this rant brief.

From the many wars and political strife that they've financed and inspired to the way that they have hampered the technological move forward to a carbon-free energy existence, these assholes are real life evil schemers straight out of central casting.

These "people" are barely human beings.

After those guys, I blame the politicians and bureaucrats who have been bought and paid for buy the big oil dollars. These fuckers are no less than traitors, who have betrayed both their oaths of office and the public good.

Cowards all.

Lastly, I blame all of us.

If only for being complacent in letting the oil companies control our lives and not holding the politicians and bureaucrats accountable for their complicity.

We deserve our victimhood.

[jody]

1. Agree blame the oil companies but they're #2, #1 is govt. of We the People that betrayed our trust

by allowing drilling in the Gulf without adequate safeguards for a worst case scenario while being blinded by fantasies of economic benefits from a best case scenario.

[wingnut40]

2. we do deserve it, and hopefully now we can wake up and change who we vote for!

[MrScorpio]

3. I, for one, want that GOPer who's district that I'm in OUT!

That would be a good start

[wingnut40]

4. who is that?

[MrScorpio]

6. Candice S. Miller

[KharmaTrain]

5. A Culture Of Consumption...

This land of abudant natural resources was seen as a sign of progress and superiority. Our country became one based on mass consumption and our lifestyles have become dependent on many of those indulgences. Call it the end of the road for Manifest Destiny and the American Dream...all built around "individuality" but also on ownership...even if we couldn't afford it.

Over the past 60 years, the "consumer economy" created prosperity for many and with it came the concept that greed is good; money was the ticket to hapiness and personal indulgance as a virtue. The corporate world has fed this attitude and now feeds off it as the common good has been tied to the bottom line.

More important...people want change but only on their terms. They want their issues dealt with over those of others and our politicians see voters as something to exploit rather than to serve. Votes only matter in November, but the corporates matter every day. The need for cheap resources trumped all and this led to lax regulations and corporate consolidations that have now made "too big to fails" where all of us are now held hostage to the corporates fates and fortunes.

This country needs an attitude change, but I still don't see it happening.