Musings of a Dumb Ass

We've finally come against a crisis that may be bigger than us, and thus far appears to be unmanageable, the oilspill in the Gulf............

As with all the other events in the last ten years that required a steady hand and the power of a responsible government, as in our behaviour following 9-11, that resulted in two disastrous wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, we have shown the same political and individual stupidity displayed in Hurricane Katrina and now the British Petroleum spill that makes us look totally inept and impotent to the rest of the civilized world and we are locked into the 'system', whatever that is, in such a way that a reasonable solution, which is most certainly out there, impossible to achieve.

What really isn't being said, is something possibly even more dangerous than the pollution spewing into our ocean, and that would be the position of power and responsibility of British Petroleum to its' Mother Country, England, and its' subjects, numbering 42 countries.

All of the British subject countries are not entitled to the same rewards and benefits as the true natural born Brit, but each would fall in order should the Mother Country fail and fall. This would surely be a calamity unknown to modern times and no one really knows what the effect would be world wide should if Great Britain should fail. It could possibly throw the entire world into a position of looking at reversals that might make us knock on the door of dark ages akin to the period following the fall of Rome, so long ago.

So how could an oil company spilling crude out of a 22 inch hole in the ground on the ocean floor be such a threat to world stability?

Simple.... BP is the single largest contributer to the British Government in the form of taxes, and likewise the pension funds of Great Britons' retired are deep into BP stock, which has taken a severe beating at the hands of current events, and will likely suffer further perhaps to a total failure, if the gusher isn't harnessed soon.

Should a complete failure of BP occur, there would be a collapse of the retirement system in England, which would mean nobody retired gets a check in England. All powerful nations on the earth have shackled themselves to the elderly in the form of retirement, health care and a myriad of other 'gimme's' and if anyone thinks the elderly doesn't have punch, even enough to collapse a government and likewise a country, then that portion of believers will be in for a huge surprise. Problem is that we have all grown dependent on each other and should Great Briton fall, lots of others, perhaps the entire globe will collapse also.

By the way, it seems to me an effective way to seal the damn pipe up would be through the use of a simple airbag.... y'know,....the kind that holds locomotives up. Stick 'em in the hole and air 'em up....... OK OK OK...... It's too simple ...... I know........ I'm sorry..... forget I even mentioned it.....