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And we’ll look at the dismal state of the economy, will it cost the Democrats the House this November, as White House spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested? Was his warning a call to action to revitalize the Party, or a slam at Nancy Pelosi and the other House Democrats?
Plus the BP oil disaster – will the cap work? Is there another underground leak BP is concealing at a different location? And even if 100% of the oil is now contained, what will be the impact of the oil, methane plumes, and disbersement chemicals already dumped into the Gulf?
All this and your phone calls on the program tonight!
Mike,
Regarding the BP-made disaster, I think that Robert Burns said it best in his poem, “To A Mouse”:
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Well, Goldman Sachs expected to fork over at least one billion; imagine that! But noooo! Their connections in high places kept the amount owed by GS in the pocket change area.
You ever notice how most of the people in high places are actually low lifes (sic)?
Fuck the English. We shouldn’t suffer alone:
Austerity drive will hand billions to private sector
Outsourcing firms are preparing for bonanza of contracts to provide everything from binmen to back office bureaucrats
…Richard Marchant, head of local government strategic partnerships at Capita, an FTSE-100 company which already works for councils in Harrow, Swindon, Southampton and Sheffield, said: “A major problem for the public sector is, we feel, a significant opportunity for us. Opportunities are at their highest level in two to three years. This year we have probably seen a 100% increase in opportunities [compared with 2009] and I suspect we will see another 50% increase in the following year.”
Such an increase could deliver a £60m boost to Capita’s revenues while councils are anticipating a 30% budget cut over the next four years. Other firms vying for town hall contracts include Serco and Mouchel.
The private sector boom comes amid the toughest financial climate for public services in a generation, and despite continued assurances from ministers that reforms to public services are aimed at achieving greater value for money and improving efficiency. Councils are braced for the biggest cuts to their budgets since 1945 and the growth in the market for privatised services has provoked anger that private shareholders, rather than taxpayers, are likely to benefit from efficiency savings that come from cuts….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/16/austerity-drive-billions-…
Once again Oingo Boingo answers the call:
It’s just another day / There’s murder in the air
It drags me when I walk / I smell it everywhere
It’s just another day / Where people cling to light
To drive away the fear / That comes with every night
Just 1 thing…for the Constitution-lovin Mark Wilson. Slavery is in there, but it’s not racist…is it?
Suggested reading on Methane
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dk-matai/gulf-oil-gusher-methane-c_b_634550.html