This is an article that was published in today’s Democrat and Chronicle: Cleanup aid from overseas comes with a price tag

I see a lot of people bitching that the government is refusing help from other countries regarding the oil spill. Perhaps this is why. When we are so generous towards other countries, they view us as the richest country in the world. For this reason, the help is not necessarily out of the goodness of their hearts. They want cash in return for the help they want to provide. Yes, all of this could probably have been fixed almost immediately with this help, but I can understand the government’s refusal to spend even more money on it. We are already in an incredible amount of trouble with our economy. Agreeing to pay these countries will put the USA in even more debt than we already are and we NEED to stop spending uncontrollably. And the fact remains that BP should have had some plan in place knowing full well something like this could happen.

And not for nothing – How come no one is saying a word about this: Niger Delta Oil Spills??

One last note: I’m also getting a good laugh at everyone who is blaming Obama. Some of you should have a conversation with someone a generation or two older than you. My parents have long talked about the oil crisis when I was just a year or two old. (That would be back in 1972/1973). People lined the streets trying to get gas for their cars. We should have begun then, if not before, to research clean energy solutions and we would not have had the gas prices of the last few years, and maybe the Exxon Valdez would not have happened and maybe the Gulf Oil Spill would not have happened. This has nothing to do with Barack Obama. It does have to do with corrupt politicians who are in the pockets of the big oil companies. You DO have the power to do something about it. We elect these people. Dig in at election time and research the candidates that you are pulling the YES lever for. Make sure you vote them out when they turn out to not come through with what they promise. Speak up and stop waiting for someone else to do it.