May God bless first responders! They all deserve our gratitude: the police, the firemen, the EMTs, the doctors and nurses, the utility company workers, and all the rest who risk their lives and log long hours to keep us safe and put things right as fast as possible after a natural or man-made disaster.
And may God have mercy on the souls of second responders! We’re talking about the contemptible toads, those greedy guts who come after the first responders, looking to make a quick buck by blaming the wrong person, company, or agency for something the targeted party was not responsible for and could not have prevented.
Hurricanes, tornadoes, hail storms, floods, oil spills – whatever it is, the first responders get there on the double and begin alleviating and remediating the damage. Right behind them come the second responders, the personal injury attorneys (i.e., ambulance chasers) clutching fill-in-the-blank lawsuits and prowling for clients.
The response to Winter Storm Uri is typical.
Does anybody know, or care, that decades of unrealistic and irresponsible federal energy policies, ostensibly enacted out of concern for the environment, have put our nation’s entire electrical grid at risk – while providing financial and strategic benefits to our enemies, foreign and domestic?
This might be the logical place to fix the blame for the inadequate response to the fury of Uri, but, no, we can’t be logical. We must be emotional, we must go with our feelings, because that’s what demagogues want us to do, so they can keep taking advantage of us.
“Is the Texas Power Grid Failure Shaping Up to Be the Next BP Oil Spill?” That was the headline on a recent blog post at xsocialmedia.com. It was a rhetorical question.
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BP oil spill monetizers Tony Buzbee and Francis Spagnoletti, Esq., filed the first Uri suits: against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and local power providers, both victims of misguided federal energy policies.
Don’t think about that. Emote.