Oil in the Gulf and Idiocy in AZ

This oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico I think has far more repercussions than people realize. If it continues to grow in size it will do damage to things that we haven’t even begun to consider. Sure the obvious environmental impacts have been widely discussed, as well as the economic ones, but there are others. For example, what is going to happen to all the barrier islands in the path of the slick once that oil comes in contact with the vegetation that holds them together? How is this going to affect drinking and irrigation water in the area? What about all the towns and cities on the coast that rely on tourism and fishing? I believe that even if the spill is stopped an hour from now, the impact will be far worse than the Exxon Valdese spill in Alaska. Sure the Gulf spill is smaller, for now, but it is going to affect a far larger amount of people than the E.V. spill. This is also a security issue because all that oil that is being dumped into the ocean is oil that is not going to be refined and processed, which in turn means that more will have to be IMPORTED to make up for it. Still think off-shore drilling is a great thing? I admit this doesn’t happen everyday but when it does, especially when it affects civilization, it can get very bad very fast. Imagine for a minute if there was a similar, or worse, incident off the coast of California, or anywhere on the East Coast. You think this is bad, imagine it affecting millions of people directly. We should all take this as a wake up call that we need to get off oil, and we have to get off of it YESTERDAY! The longer we wait to change to a new source of energy and raw materials for hundreds of products, the worse it will be when we are FORCED off of it.




I would also like to add to my points about the Arizona immigration law. I have heard that AZ passed it because they are tired of waiting on Washington and felt they had to act. Well, if you feel Washington forced your hand then look in a mirror because the reason immigration reform can’t get passed is YOU. People want all this improved board security and blah blah blah but they don’t want to accept the LOGICAL parts of it. Any immigration reform MUST have a form of amnesty for the people in this country already. That is the only way you are going to get an ACURATE count of how is “legal” and who is not. Unless of course you support turning this country into a police state, combing the country for them, and in essence burning half of the Constitution in the process. Also I love how if people are found to be in AZ illegally, they aren’t deported. This law would force them into an already under-funded, and over-crowded prison system. Oh, AND by doing so you are giving them food, shelter, funded by the American taxpayer. You don’t want terrorist suspects given the right to a fair trial (which I might add even Nazi war criminals got) but you are demanding they be thrown into American prisons? Explain that to me. Finally what do you propose to ensure we “seal” the borders? If you build a 15’ fence, people will get a 15’ ladder to go over it. They will dig under it, or cut through it. What do you want? A 10’ wide, hundreds of feet high (that includes the distance of digging the foundation to bedrock) reinforced concrete wall with border agents on top spaced every 20’ along the whole length of the US-Mexico border? You refuse to raise taxes to cover budget deficits, how the hell are you going to pay for that?