ENGLAND vs. U.S.A – WORLD CUP SOCCER or BP OIL FIASCO?

Help Americans understand this:

So you are distressed over the fact that Americans are extremely outraged at BP’s (formerly called British Petroleum) environmental disaster which is wrecking havoc on our Gulf Coast region; that our fury over this corporation’s massive blunder is somehow to blame for the precipitous drop in it’s stock price; that this drop in the value of BP’s stock has effected the value of many of your citizens’ pensions; therefore Americans need to “ratchet down” criticism of the company so that the stock price can go up again?

Interesting.

So when our Wall Street banks screwed up the world economy, thereby effecting the value of your citizens’ pension funds because they bought some of the over-rated collateralized debt obligations (CDO’s) these financial terrorists were selling, it was OK for you to whip them like the worthless dogs they are.  However, when one of your energy corporations screws up, effecting the lives of millions of Americans living on the Gulf coast, we have to bite our tongues because that too negatively affects your retirement accounts?

Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, John Stewart Mills, Bertrand Russell - all great British philosphers.  Men of extraordinary reason and intelligence.  Did present day British citizens skip the class in Logic and Critical Thinking?  These great British philosophers must be rolling over in their graves.

My ancestors left England (and Scotland) in order to come to the United States over 300 years ago. 

Maybe for good reason . . . no pun intended.