Money, money, money, that's all I heard

I'm sorry I believe money is a major part of this mess, money to pay for what is needed for the people of each state to get what is needed in the way of stopping the oil from reaching the shores. Money to pay the local fishermen for the loss of income become of this. This is a presurized pipe that the oil is flowing out of. Trying to stop this oil from coming out is not a easy thing to do. Yes I also believe he should have started with a government clean up instead of sitting and waiting longer on Bp to so something, you clean up first then argue about who pays for it. From what I have seen on TV Louisiana's coast is done. Their fishing and oyster, and crab fishing is over for many years to come. Is Bp going to continue to pay these men for years to come. It takes years for those oysters to replace themselves. Once the federal governament seen that Bp wasn't going to do what it needed to do, I think that the federal govennment should of stepped up and took over. But really you can clean and clean on a 24 hour a day time but you aren't going to get any where while the oil is still gushing out. Seems to me they are fighting a losing battle until it is stopped from flowing.

It looks like you must have missed some parts of the speech so I found a transcript for you on the web. The president was specific about many things related to stopping the leak and efforts to clean up the mess. The federal government has and continues to be very involved in the response to this crisis. : http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/15/transcript.obama.speech/index.html

Why has the government repeatedly turned down help from the Dutch, from the Saudis, from local folk? Why are they turning away volunteers? why oh why?

I think that there is alot more going on for these people on the coast. They lively hoods are being affected big time. They need money to exist and to live. It isn't just a oil spill, it is the lives of the people that live there. Ofcourse money is a large aspect of what is going on there. Everything costs money!

Money is not everything, but You need money to buy everything that's it

Every corporate house has to fulfill its social responsibility. We need money even to show our human face to meet out the social responsibilities.

My impression of his speech is that he tried to get in a little bit of everything and offered no real solutions to the problem. He has wasted too much time, so now when he is finally getting around to addressing this, all he can give is generalities and promises that things will get better, but no real direction or plan.

hi Maybe he will use the money from BP to clean up things and anyway no matter what he eventually decides nobody here ever stops to think the President does not do diddley squat on his own he has advisers, and the Senate and Congress all these people getting into the act on so much stuff he is blamed for all the time. Mylot seems to be into bashing him for everything that happens. To me that's sort of silly. No President does things by himself, bash the whole political system if you must not just one man.