I like how it's an either/or thing being discussed in terms of getting people out there to clean up the oil, instead of the obviously-more-correct "we'll take anyone willing." Do you seriously think people are being
chosen to do this, and that it's some kind of lottery where only the "lucky few" are being sent to clean it up? Of course not. Right now, whoever is organizing a beach-side cleanup is scrambling to get anyone and everyone who is going to show up. Because a job consisting of cleaning up endless sludge on a shoreline, where you are depressed watching animal life helplessly flail around and slowly die, it smells like shit, you're sticky and hot and wet and gross, and you get to do this for eight hours? You can't bug people to put their trash in cans, nor even be willing to pick up a piece of trash a day, and you actually believe that there's some swarm of people being picked and chosen to clean this up like it was some kind of prize?
Who remembers the clip of Lisa Simpson cleaning off the oil-drenched rocks at the beach with a toothbrush, and the second she was done, it just got washed over again with the next wave?
Magnify that joke by about a billion.
Gosh, where have I heard this before? Oh right. All the "them Mexicans are stealin' rrr jerrbs!" Because people were LINING UP for the high profile job of picking fruit in 100+ sunny weather with little to no breaks for minimum wage, insisting upon the idea that if we were to deport all of them, Americans would be flooding the door to get their pick
on.
While we're at making-current-day-stupid-arguments-that-echo-past-day-stupid-arguments, how hilarious is it to see a contingent of people INSISTING upon "we need to get our men over there to fix it!" while sitting on their asses? Gosh, what's gone on since 2003 that could possibly parallel this?
Finally, let's throw out this bullshit about how Obama turned down Dutch ships. It's a law. First off, find out who wrote the law, why it is in place, why it is being enforced now, who is bringing it up since it's clearly out of date and obscure, and all the other information. Further, don't even

ing
pretend that you shits wouldn't have thrown out the OMFG OBAMA IS SHREDDING THE CONSTITUTION AND INCREASING HIS EXECUTIVE POWER if he
had allowed the Dutch to help in light of this law. You idiots would have been screaming that he's overstepping his bounds and gobbling up power pellets like a crazed Pacman.
So shut the

up. Tired of all this never-happy-no-matter-what bullshit you idiots have been pulling since November 2008. We're smack dab in a monumental disaster that's going to affects the entire world for decades, and the best arguments you guys can muster up is "it's Obama's fault" and "oil isn't so bad anyway" and "we need to protect jobs."
Man. To think that if I were in a store and dropped a vase, I'd have assets protection rejects swamping my ass and demanding I pay the 6.99.

up an entire coast line and you actually get people feeling sorry for you having to pay to clean it up.