Reply #103: I do not so claim

[William Z. Foster]

I never said, and have seen no one say that "a government takeover of operations in the Gulf stops the leak."

I did say that a government takeover would protect the public welfare in all phases of the operation. It isn't a radical position. I suspect that many Republican administrations would have shared this position - Eisenhower, Nixon, maybe even Hoover. Probably Teddy and certainly the Democratic administrations of FDR, Truman, JFK, and LBJ.

How would federalizing the operation interfere in any way with "the specifics of solving the problem at-hand?" How is advocacy for federalizing the operation harmful?