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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:43 PM Original message |
Should we root for BP to be driven out of business? |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nationalize it. n/t |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Yep. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. +1 |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. +1 |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sure! I can get behind that! |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not for a few years. n/t |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. No and I will tell you why |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Corporate world needs a lesson |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. +100..you are very correct |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. seize their assets |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. If the damage they caused adds up to $500 billion or more, then yes, I guess. |
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name not needed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. Seize their assets and sell them off to their competitors. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
11. That's a lot of lost jobs. |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. No, provided the execs and directors go to prison for negligence, manslaughter,etc. |
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Synicus Maximus (828 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. No. Americans own 39 % of BP. Not to mention the jobs that |
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humbled_opinion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. Exactly |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. Fuck yes. Just seize their assets and use them to pay for the mess! |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
16. Only if we can seize all the personal assets of every executive at BP leaving them paupers |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. Someone needs to be held accountable. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. No, we need BP with money in order to make good on the cleanup |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
19. Why not? The "invisible hand" and all that. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
20. After they pay every penny they owe. Not before. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
21. not while they've got money to pay out claims. after that, fire away. |
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William Z. Foster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
22. nationalize |
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howaboutme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
25. I root for the Chairman and CEO to be jailed |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
26. What does it take to deter reckless corporate behavior? |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
27. I have family that works for BP... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
28. dupe |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
29. The hen in the pot lays no more eggs |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
30. Yeah, punish the 99% of the people who did nothing wrong to get a few leaders who did. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:06 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I do not believe that for one second as greed cannot be eliminated. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. I do not believe that for one second as I know what you meant to say. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Corporations are persons, they are not dogs. I'm sure you know all about corp. personage. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. No, just for them to pay the damages their negligence caused |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
34. Not until A)the relief wells are done and B)the cleanup is done |
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