Reply #145: so BP is in charge, or BP isn't...

[William Z. Foster]

So hard to follow this as the talking points keep evolving day to day.

The line between corporations and the government has become so blurred, that the people arguing both sides of this - that it should not be federalized, AND that it already IS federalized, are right - in a way.

It is both!

Here is an interesting thread about the information site people are sending us to (to either prove that the government is in charge, or to prove that the government should not be in charge - depending.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8434270

That "government information site" people are prompting as a rebuttal to the critics of the response to the disaster? Even THAT has been privatized.

So the message machine cranking out the information used to deny that this is a privatized operation is itself privatized.