Governor Jindal said, “I appreciate Secretary Salazar, Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Jackson for coming down to Louisiana and seeing first-hand the response efforts. As I told the President yesterday, we’re urging the federal government and BP to deploy more resources to help mitigate the impact of the oil spill that is threatening the coast of our state...“I do have concerns that BP’s current resources are not adequate to meet the three challenges we face and I have urged them to seek more help.”
Andrew Kent adds:
"It's not that government can solve all our problems. It can't. I agree with the Governor that in most cases, the strength of our nation is found in our people and businesses rather than our government. But there are some problems that are too big for compassionate individuals--and too unprofitable for enterprising businesses--to address. In other cases problems result from a failure of collective action, in which behaviors beneficial to individuals cause collective harm to the group. And it's in these situations that government has to step in."
When a disaster strikes and the world's 4th largest company [BP] does not have the resources to solve the problem, the Federal Government has to play a bigger role.
Bottom line: no one wants the Government to tell them what to do, but to say the Government can't do anything right is flat out wrong. Stop bashing everything Federal. It was set up 200 years ago to be powerful. And with massive disasters like oil spills, it becomes obvious why.
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