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To: combjelly who wrote (613779)	5/29/2011 8:43:26 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587735

>> Neither of those were socialist. For one, the ACA is about as pro-business as you can get. Much of it was a gift to the insurance companies. A socialist bill would have been totally different. Ridiculous liberal claim. While it will add 16M to the insurance company membership roles, it also adds 16M to the government dole. In addition, it imposes some horrendous financial burdens on both insurance companies AND businesses at large. No one in his right mind would call it pro-business. >> What was supposed to happen, everyone just say "oopsie" and nothing happens? They were supposed to be held to account at arms length, rather than brought into the White House "on the carpet" in the midst of a presidential rant, while bashing the company publicly. There has been no evidence presented, WHATSOEVER, that BP behaved inappropriately in any respect related to the spill. >> It isn't anti-business to insist that a company take responsibility for their actions. Agree, and by ANY reasonable metric BP EXCEEDED its responsibility. In fact, most of the problems have come from the guy OBAMA installed to run the claims operation, combined with the incompetent decision Obama made to shut down operations. There is no lasting impact from the spill itself, other than the deaths of individuals during the immediate explosion. And these things happen. It is a dangerous place to work.