ARE THE INNOCENT, HELPLESS AMERICANS TO BE FORCED BY THE GREEDY YET AGAIN?

The ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is infuriating. As things currently stand, BP's legal liability is "capped" at a maximum of $75 million. That's less than BP makes in profits in one day! The rest of the astronomical clean up costs will be paid by us -- American taxpayers. Sign the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund's petition and tell your members of Congress to pass legislation that lifts the oil liability cap and the cap on punitive damages. 

Don Hazen
Executive Editor, AlterNet.org

How in the world of Congressional Chutzpah can someone really insist on capping payment responsibility on the greedy failing to use good judgment and  money to prevent or minimize the cost to the environment and to innocent taxpayers, already impoverished due to greedy corporations?  The weak cry that it would stop small businesses from investing in similar oil drilling falls somewhat flat on my astonished ears.

Already the talking heads are trying to estimate what it will cost American taxpayers, while we have legislators  (who allegedly have benefited greatly from the largess to them from the oil companies who should have been putting the money towards safeguards rather than politicians' greed) who are thinking of their 'gold, egg laying, goose' rather than the people who voted them into office to represent them; not themselves only.  Don't allow these few in the Congress to add this burden onto the shoulders of the people who have already picked up the bill at the dinner party too often.