Howdy, KNN followers. We're moving to shorter posts in an effort to, well, get more of more done. We have a lot on our serving platter sized plate. But we're never too busy to point at something like this and gasp. As we would at, oh, let's say, the World's Biggest Ball of Appalling Human Behavior (Covered With Tar).
Frm St. Petersburg Times: Local governments spent freely with BP's millions Oh, come on, now. We here at KNN were all in favor of BP's fund to help the victims of the oil spill. To us, it represented a significant step forward in the fight for corporate accountability, a good first step. And then stuff like this happens? The excuses aren't even good. "I don't have one and I needed one" isn't a suitable excuse for anyone to take something they're not entitled to, elected or not.
And the profoundly pathetic thing about this situation is that BP could make a legal case to recover some of that cash on the grounds that it didn't go to the people it was supposed to help, which was the original reason for ponying up. We could see a judge ruling in their favor on that. How's that for accountability?
Until next time...
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