1) remember Obama got a landslide of a vote BECAUSE US citizens thought he'd be different. It's telling that as his popularity with most of the US is plunging, the right is grumbling less. (I'm one of those people who believed his campaign promises; it won't happen again. Or trusting his brain; blind ambition trumps sanity every day, it would appear.)
Just to add my two cents: it's not the nationality of the people employed, or even of the owners. The profit motive will always trump humanism. The whole point is to set -- and ENFORCE -- appropriate safeguards on any company which is doing something risky. I'm glad you brought up Bhopal; I remember it too. Besides, there are no American, or British, or whatever companies anymore. They're multinational.
I know why BP is being targeted, too. If you can blame an individual, you can distract from the root cause, and continue to make stupid decisions about things like risking the ocean's destruction.
Amen
Just to add my two cents: it's not the nationality of the people employed, or even of the owners. The profit motive will always trump humanism. The whole point is to set -- and ENFORCE -- appropriate safeguards on any company which is doing something risky. I'm glad you brought up Bhopal; I remember it too. Besides, there are no American, or British, or whatever companies anymore. They're multinational.
I know why BP is being targeted, too. If you can blame an individual, you can distract from the root cause, and continue to make stupid decisions about things like risking the ocean's destruction.