random3434
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Foxfire,, you do have good points, we do want to keep BP to pay for this, and bankrupting them would just make the government have to pay instead.
Now for the protesters, they are doing this because they are mad, frustrated, and feel this is the only way they can show that frustration.
Kind of like the Tea Party people at a rally.
And jeffrockit is right, a lot of the BP stations are owned by Joe Smoe, it's not his fault what happened in the Gulf.
I feel helpless every day I see the destruction on the news. I couldn't even imagine living down there, those poor people who are effected by this.............so sad.
No, this is way different than a Tea Party. Tea Partiers are protesting against what they believe to be irresponsible government and petitioning for responsible government. They aren't out to boycott or hurt anybody though they do want the irresponsible tossed and the responsible to take the place of those tossed.
And I understand why the people protesting BP are angry. But can't you be angry and smart at the same time?
As you pointed out, if BP is bankrupted, then somebody else will have to pay the billions it will cost to fix the problem and clean up the mess.
You mentioned the government will have to pay it. But as we Tea Partiers )) know, the government has no money that we don't give them or that isn't borrowed using our sweat and blood as collateral.
Do you really think anyone will be influenced by these protesters? Or at least that enough people will for it to matter? I don't..
That's the same question people ask the Tea Party People.
It's a free country, let the Tea Party people protest, let the Anti-BP people protest, let the Fred Phepls people protest, just make sure you get 1000 gay men and women to make out in front of them to hide them from the families of who they are protesting.