My Thoughts on the BP Spill

As a resident of the Gulf Coast I am sadden by the oil spill that took place in April and the fact that the spill is still continuing to leak out oil.  It has been a month since that tragic day where 11 employees lost their lives on the oil rig.  A month that BP has had to clean up the mess.  I am tired of reading whose fault it is.  I don't really give a damn whose fault it is.  All I want it to people to join together and fix the problem.  We have some brillant brains in the companies in question and they would quit their bickering for a second and use their brains and come up with a solution instead of trying to put the blame on each other maybe there would had been a solution to the problem. 

At the moment most people in the US are not directly affected by the oil spill but those who live near the coast are.  Many of us not only live near the coast but we fish for our daily food.  There are commercial fishermen along with the sportman fisherman.  Now before anyone starts to send hate mail to me you need to understand that those sportsman fisherman also bring home food to their families.  We are a family of five and the fish that my husband used to catch would feed us throughout the summer and winter.  That allowed us to be able to spend less at the grocery store which in this economy is a good thing.  Now since our fish supply is running low since he has not been able to fish I am not sure what we are going to do.  Food stamps are out of the question because you basically have to be not working in order to get those.  With our three jobs we don't qualify.  Also BP says that they are offering jobs to the people who live near the coast and are affected by their giant mess.  Well that is great but how come is that I have send in my resume, get a letter promising a position, have a phone call and then return the phone call and leave 20 + messages on voice mail for the person to call me back and they don't even have the decency to call me back and at least let me know that they filled the position.  It is like they are even leaving the ones that are hoping for employment hanging.  Just like they are leaving the public hanging on what is really going on.  So yes I have reason to mistrust what BP and the goverment is saying about the spill.  They have gave me reason. 

Not only is the spill affecting the lively hood of many on the coast but it is affecting our way of life.  Many of us choose to live here despite the hurricanes.  We love it down here.  Hurricanes we can take but a darn oil spill that BP doesn't seem to be able to clean up is not taken likely.