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Money. there are very cut throat individuals. they re not worried about cleaning up the spill as it is. do you agree with that, bob? that gives a good perspective of what the folks are feeling. the atmosphere there is very, very somber. these people are tired. they re worn out. they see the oil coming and coming. they feel like nobody cares about cleaning it up. these folks work seven days a week during their season. they re really beat down. for bp to take advantage of that in reducing the claims is simply wrong. i wonder how the president feels about all of this. i really do. i watch all of this. tracy, you hit it on the head. corporations control the government. financial speculators or energy or resource extractors. ....
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Shareholders to only pay legitimate claims. guess who decides what a legitimate claim is? sounds like your health insurance company, doesn t it? they should also bear the cost of the drilling moratorium, which is expected to be announced this summer. estimates that it would cost $330 million. not to mention the lost tax revenue to states. $2.9 billion. joining us from new orleans is tracy washington of the louisiana justice institution. representing 200 fishermen adversely affected by the spill. also bob kavanar. tracy, i ll begin with you. are they paying claims? no, they re not paying claims. he said bp would pay all legitimate, reasonable, ....
This is absurd. there s one issue with all of this which you and i are both very familiar with, tracy. bob, you probably are as well. the economy on the dock is too often untaxed. you have a bunch of guys fishing. oyster men, shrimpers, whatever it is that are basically a tiny little weasel. they take the money. don t pay the cash. you can go you know where. now we introduce a gigantic weasel called british petroleum. let s completely not comply with any of the safety standards that an 18,000 feet oil well that can release a volcano of oil to disrupt the natural flow of the earth for centuries to come back we can get rich that way. how do you reconcile that? ....