It only takes 72 in an emergency

I'm not happy at all that it took this long but I was glad to read that help was on the way from several other countries. As far as the issue of financial compensation coming from BP, yes, that had to be addressed the moment folks were unable to work and support their families. Those people need a way to survive through all this.

I have mixed feelings on it. We have a standing Navy and coat guard so my feelings are that we should have taken this out of BP's hands a long time ago. That's where are first line of help should have come from. When Chernobyl happened they went straight to the military and jumped on it, we on the other hand sat around and kept waiting on BP to make it better. As far as foreign aid I am not sure this is going to make a huge difference we need to drill relief wells and be done with it every day this goes by is another day too many. My guess is they wanted to do as much damage control before they let any outsiders in. Just as long as our aid doesn't come from the UN, every country they help ends up in civil war or ten times worse. "and the Environment Unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Environment Program."

Politics, politics - - none of the influential people involved in this dreadful oil spill i.e. BP and Obama and his greedy henchmen give one damn about the people whose lives and livelihood have been destroyed not to forget the destruction of God's wonderful wild life. It makes me physically ill to know this is all due to mankind's love of money. It is only too obvious that they have waited until the monetary bottom line ...dollars $$ is to their liking. Shame! shame! shame!

The government and Obama have really (and I mean really) dropped the ball on this one. 72 days and the oil is still leaking out. Their beaches are a mess. The states are still screaming for help and the feds have been extremely slow to give it. BP is spinning propaganda like crazy. YOu know Obama has dropped the ball big time when Carvel, one of the biggest democratic spin doctors and party loyalist around is on CNN night after night talking about how bad the response has been by the feds. If the gulf coast should have learned anything from katrina and this diseaster....don't depend on the feds to help you out when something really bad happens. Those states (and all the rest really) need to come up with plans to be able to deal with diseasters on their own. Because the feds obviously can't handle it.

O wants to use the oil spill as a political tool and to further harm this country. The time frame was deliberate and intentional stalling with intent to add to the harm already done.

Hi, this is too long to take for that amount of oil already spilled is incredible, who knows how many years and we are left with less oil, these leaders seem blind.