Before I start my rant I would like to say I am a conservative leaning heavily toward libertarian so that is partly where I am coming from but I am also an American.
Now watching the news the last few weeks one can not know about the oil spill in the Gulf. It might be the biggest ecological disaster in my lifetime and I can not figure out what the hell the federal government is doing. Is it just me or has the feds become less effective in the last 12 years or so.
It seems that since about ’98 the leadership of our government worries more about the politics of a situation than solving the situation in the first place. We see this in the immigration debate in the war policy after the initial victory and now the Gulf oil spill.
This seeing everything as a political battle to be fought is the attitude of both major parties. The republicans and the democrats spend more time screaming at each other than thinking of solutions. The Gulf is dying while both parties rise money and generate talking points.
The questions are many like why did the government turn down help from the Dutch government when they wanted to send ships equipped with skimmers? Why is their still a warehouse full of booms that could have saved miles of coastline still not used? Why do they not rescind the Jones act so foreign ships can help in the clean up?
There is more but listing them is just depressing me and does not answer the biggest question, do the elected officials in Washington from the President to the congress really care about what happens in this country or do they only care for their own positions and power.
One of the basic functions of the government is to defend the country from human and natural calamities. So far the federal government has failed in this and if they can not stop the political bullshit to save the gulf than maybe it’s time to rethink the power we the people give them.
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