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What that acoustical trigger would have cost, seems very expensive, but when 5,000 barrels of oil per day are spilling out into the gulf destroying people's livelihoods it doesn't seem that costly at all. so that was the ethos that existed inside the bush/cheney era, and i'm afraid we're now living with the consequences of those assumptions. >> let me talk to you about what's happening today. we're getting reports that bp's out there hiring en masse, basically, all kinds of shrimp boat operator, fishermen and people like that, hiring them on a per diem basis right now and getting them to sign ...

But when the bush/cheney administration took over, they made a determination that it was too costly to build in that extra safety precaution. and, again, when there is an assumption that an accident cannot occur, $500,000, which is what that acoustical trigger would have cost, seems very expensive but when 5,000 barrels per day is spilling out into the gulf destroying people's livelihoods it doesn't seem that costly at all and so that was the ethos that existed inside the bush/cheney era, and i'm afraid we're now living with the consequences of those assumptions. >> let me talk to you about wh...

Too costly to build in that extra safety precaution. and, again, when there is an assumption that an accident cannot occur, $500,000, which is what that acoustical trigger would have cost, seems very expensive, but when 5,000 barrels of oil per day are spilling out into the gulf destroying people's livelihoods it doesn't seem that costly at all. so that was the ethos that existed inside the bush/cheney era, and i'm afraid we're now living with the consequences of those assumptions. >> let me talk to you about what's happening today. we're getting reports that bp's out there hiring mollusks. al...