The wise remembers

Before his second visit to Louisiana today, President Obama angrily said; “I was wrong in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worse case scenarios. Extraction is more expensive, and it is going to be inherently more risky, and so that’s part of the reason you never heard me say drill, baby drill.”

Unfortunately in this particular situation [and I suspect that’s where the president’s frustration comes from] the federal government was never going to do more than BP (British Petroleum) because they neither have the capabilities nor the knowhow that BP has to deal with this situation!

For the president to clamp down on drilling because of this incident is shortsighted and very limited.

If every time something goes wrong people stop in their tracks, mankind would not have sailed the seas and crossed the oceans, discovered America, or landed in the Moon not to mention all the other wonderful medical and life saving discoveries.

Catastrophes natural and man made have taught us more throughout the centuries than order did and the president will be wise to remember that.