For your thoughts.

[westerebus]

How will the market's react when a small nuclear device is used to cap BP's oil well?

I'm off to work. See you later.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. You just watched LOST?

LOL

[westerebus]

6. Nope.

I'm confused enough. So they did nuke the island? I had no clue.

[stevedeshazer]

2. Nice hit and run.

That's not gonna happen. You know it.

[westerebus]

7. Just a little one.

Just big enough to fuse the rock and seal the well. It's not like we don't have a few small enough to do the job.

[rzemanfl]

3. If it is the future of the Gulf vs. a small nuke, then I am okay with the

nuke. Afterwards, BP should be billed for the entire cost of the Manhattan Project with compound interest since the 1940's.

[westerebus]

8. I'd can live with that.

Right after the trial of the CEO and operations directors for man slaughter.

[Newest Reality]

4. Why is nuclear on people's minds for this?

This is not a city we are going to destroy here, like those two densely populated ones that we once decimated with the almighty BOMB.

I can't imagine why conventional explosives would not be viable and the preferred option if it came to that.

Why add radiation to the toxic mix, or is that how we Americans tend think now? Oh, yeah, why not see if we get some six-headed turtles and glow-in-your-mouth shrimp, ey? Why not make sure that that area in the Gulf is toxic and deadly for tens-of-thousands of years rather than hundreds?

[jtuck004]

5. Because we live in an instant fix culture, not a thoughtful one? n.t.

[westerebus]

9. You don't need a city killer.

Something small and low yield so there would not be that much radiation. Any creature that comes in contact with the oil plume is going to die. The longer they wait, the more of the Gulf will be destroyed.

We have large conventional weapons like penetrating bunker busters. Don't think they would work that deep in water though.

[westerebus]

10. The choice of doing the same thing over and over again is not an option.

BP is in fail mode. The White House is in denial. The planet's worst ecological disaster is getting larger by the hour.

If it is going to take a small nuke to seal the well so the clean up can start, I say we go for it.

Now, what do you think the reaction from the market will be?

I think it would be a good for 500 points to the up side.

[Joanne98]

11. It will rally.

[westerebus]

12. And none too soon.

To the benefit of the Gulf. Which should spark the push to a clean energy policy with a transition away from oil dependence.

With the stimulus ending, the casino is running out of traction.

On the to do list of TPTB is social security/medicare reform with a strong emphasis on deficit reduction. Translation: they are coming after the safety net.

It comes back to revenue flow. Paying the tab for the tax cuts and the wars has developed a problem. It's called unemployed tax payers'. What a surprise!

TPTB solution is first take care of their corporate donors. Second, hand the bill for their failures to we the citizens. Third, convene a death panel to inform you that social security/ medicare are terminal.

You do hear the term "growth". There isn't any. Why?

To grow this economy you need innovation and capital. We have way too much capital. Which is deflating by the way. It wants a place to go to work. It needs to produce something other than casino chips.

Where will we find innovation? Energy Policy. As in a smart grid. As in recycling the trillion pounds of plastic that already exist before we import another piece of plastic into this country. Electric cars made in America. A farm policy to shift to small farming and away from industrial farming. Clean water city infrastructure programs.

What this all has in common is job creation.

Innovation and capital create jobs that pay the taxes to sustain the economy's primary function of government, to provide for the welfare of the common good.

So, nuke it. And lets get on with the revolution.