Widows, Orphans and Workers

The insufficient, obvious and necessary moratorium on new drilling in the Gulf is the one instance where official action has been changed because of protest. Did they see the light and decide to make a better moratorium? No, they cancelled the moratorium all together.

I want to be shocked but it's too late for that. Oil vampires used the plight of unemployed oil workers to demand that they be allowed to continue sucking the life out of our earth for their short term gain. They say it is important to keep on the oil economy because we depend on it. Yes, a third of Louisiana workers are directly tied to oil. So that makes it all the more important that we get on with the business of change, especially since this non-renewable death spiral must end soon in any case. Our economic lives are chained to an industry that destroys our physical lives. So we need to kill the industry, not ourselves.

First step, seize BP. To fight this common sense response BP points to the plight of pensioners and others who depend on BP stocks to support their retirement funds. First of all, the stock market does not exist to serve the needy, it exists to serve the greedy. They drag our beloved widows and orphans into the fight on their side. But I look for the swindlers who sold us this load a junk in the first place. We want pensioners to live in dignity, we never said they must use oil money to do it. A pension is a promise. If some manager has made the mistake of tying my grandmother's survival to that of BP then that manager should apologize and fix his mistake, not drag us all into a poisoned future.