The Refrain
by digby
It always seems to come down to this, doesn't it?
“There was a big debate under the Bush administration whether or not to require additional oil drilling safeguards but [federal regulators] decided not to require any additional mandatory safeguards, believing the industry would be motivated to do it themselves,” Carl Pope, Chairman of the Sierra Club told ABC News.
What is it going to take to make people rethink this faith-based assumption? I'm stumped. From Wall Street to California to the Gulf of Mexico and everywhere else, it's been proven over and over again, that this simply doesn't work. And the country blames the government because it failed to do its job and then makes it ever weaker in the process, thus perpetuating this vicious cycle. Why, heck, you'd almost think the whole thing was rigged
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