the blame game

Mistakes happen. An easy explanation for the ills and wills of man is that mistakes happen. So no big deal if a mine explodes killing miners or an oil rig implodes killing oil workers or if derivatives derail and destroy the lives of millions. Mistakes happen. No one’s fault, its life, and to blame is so Un-American. Especially if those you blame happen to be huge corporations, captains of industry or business enterprises. And if those you blame happen to be the lobbyists who continue to buy and own the American politician.

Dr. Rand Paul has taken to the stump one more time to decry how the President of the United States is acting unpatriotic in his criticism of BP and their oil disaster. He is full of Tea and Libertarianism as he proclaims corporations and industry at no fault and trying to correct fault as the blame game. Is he reciting the rhetoric of the Tea Baggers that the average man is less than the man with the money?

On the oil spill, Dr. Paul said he had heard nothing from BP indicating it wouldn't pay for the spill that threatens devastating environmental damage along the Gulf of Mexico coast. If he was listening closely to the CEO of BP and not the clatter of BP’s lobbyists, Dr. Paul would have heard BP say we will pay the legitimate costs if we are found guilty of the blast. Dr. Paul also did not listen to the testimony of the past crimes committed by BP with other blasts in Texas City and off shore in Alaska.

"And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be somebody's fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen," Paul said. If you drill in deep water and lie about all the back up plans you said were in place should an accident occur if you by pass regular maintenance so your bottom-line for the shareholders is greater than the small expense to remain safe, those are not accidents those are premeditated acts of potential violence and doom.

The Senate candidate also referred to a Kentucky coal mine accident that killed two men, saying he had met with the families and he admired the coal miners' courage.

"We had a mining accident that was very tragic. ... Then we come in and it's always someone's fault. Maybe sometimes accidents happen," he said. Is it an accident that could have been avoided had the same coal mine operators taken heed of its record of incidents in other coal mines owned by them and remedied some of the fail safe measures it was ordered to fulfill?

We hear about how the Tea Party Brigade and their cadre of Tea Baggers are out to deliver a new America, to take back America for the individual. But which individual are we talking about. Is it the individual which recently has been given status as being an individual by the Supreme Court, the CORPORATION, or is it the American who must work dangerous jobs just to survive?

When there is a history of mistakes, of injury, or not correcting procedures or policy to safeguard the work environment because the CEO or the shareholder will receive less income is that just considered an accident? When the past actions indicate the behavior of the present and future motives are to be questioned and error once again erodes into calamity then blame must be acknowledged. When no one in the government takes responsibility away from the corporations who care more about the bottom line and less about the common man then blame must be noticed and called out.

Come on Dr. Rand, you and your band of baggers need to find a conscience. How selfish can one man one group of people really become? Accidents happen when no one has been remiss, refused to change or reminded time after time to make corrections. Blame should be owned by the people,Dr. rand who are trying to own you should you become a senator of Kentucky.