Yeah and they'll pay it with OUR FUCKING TAX DOLLARS — you wait and see.

I wonder how the pensions of all them dead birds are holding up….

Pay the dividends to the people in the Gulf, and pay the share holders “widows and orphans” with the assets of ALL the BP Executives estates. You know, the executives that couldn't wait to pull the rig and get to the black gold.

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The “total” damage caused by this spill may be a trillion dollars. What is a coral reef worth? What is half the coral reefs in the world worth? What is the damage from billions of gallons of acid rain going to cost. The “pensions” should have been investing in green companies, instead of companies who's normal operations account to nothing more than murder, and high stakes gambling with the future of the entire planet.

thought of the day . . . involuntary receivership . . . nationalization . . . with a direction that the company's single focus be fixing that which it broke. this isn't some game, their gross / criminal negligence threatens an entire region of the United States.

An. Entire. Region.

Not just one town, not just one beach, not just one fishing ground, not just one city, not just one a state.

An. Entire. Region.

And the CEO wants to 'make good' . . . receivership will help focus the company's attention where it should be.

What a treat for the 4th of July Holiday. We get screwed so the British can make money.

Of course they will. It's the world where bad behavior and bad mistakes bring in huge rewards. Bizarro World.

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BP has stopped civilian airplanes from flying over the oil volcano.

gotta protect that share price. gotta make sure poor bp doesn't loose more of it's value. gotta protect the company!

these people should be tarred, feathered and left to stand on one of the off shore rigs. disgusting.

The government should seize all money/profits/dividends generated by the Deep Water Horizon well to guarantee that all damages related to the leak will be paid out of these funds.

This is Bull$hit! BP is doing this because their stock is falling and they don't know how much they will have to pay out for damages and fines. The US should file for a TRO to stop this action immediately. BP is attempting to liquidate cash so if they are taken over by another company because of their low stock price and the coming fines, they will not have the cash reserves to pay it. Anyone should be able to see through this nonsense and if the government doesn't try and stop it they will be complicit in defrauding the American taxpayers.

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Nothing has been generated by the BP Deepwater Horizon well except a lot of pollution – and debt to the companies involved. I'll agree with you that the government should immediately seize all assets of BP, Transocean, Haliburton and any of the other companies involved. They can be held in trust for the public good, i.e. the massive clean up.

Shareholders, well, that's the price of adventure. If you don't like it, join the cleanup and save your company some money.

“TOO BIG TO LEAK!”

Pay their city bills? Fuck that. They put money in the market. Market fucked up because you decided too invest in a scummy industry. Now you are complaining that the stock you bought is falling? Please. Where are the tears when they all made fortunes?

No one should be surprised by this. It was totally expected. Here's another thing to NOT be surprised about: Tony Hayward will receive a RECORD BONUS this year.

With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there's no space in the press for British Petroleum's latest spill, just this week: over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska pipeline operation.

So much for our corporate bought press. Tell the truth about US corporate misdeeds and they'll lose their advertising dollars.

Jesus! Why is no one listening to me

String up Tony Hayward by his thumbs over a burning oil rig so he can get back to his normal life being SATAN.

It's so simple!

“BP's shareholders may receive more this year from the company's coffers than those affected by the spill in the Gulf of Mexico will receive in their lifetime.
BP CEO Tony Hayward has indicated that he will go ahead with massive dividend payouts to shareholders in the aftermath of the worst oil spill in US history.”

8 years of Bush's lies,and criminal enterprise,including war crimes. Now just over a year into Obama. No sign of “Change you can believe in” or “Hope”. Biz as usual and now this BP fiasco!
My question both to myself and America is-Just how much more of this arrogant right under our noses behaviour are we going to take? Bush and his band of Fascists are still walking around free. Limbaugh,Beck,Coulter etc. are allowed to incite hatred,paranoia and violence.Both this administration and the last have done absolutely NOTHING for “We The People”. So what's it going to be??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_siH5wJTJ4E

There should be NO PAYOUT to anyone associated with BP.
The shareholders should be penalized for their company's criminal behavior.
Where the hell do these parasites come off expecting a dividend.
Guess what…. you made a bad financial decision …Tough!
The environment loses, shareholders lose it's as simple as that.
You don't like it shareholders, too bad.find new cleaner investments.
Profiting from ecological disasters in “OBSCENE” and unconscionable.
BP should be barred from any and all payouts until this nightmare is contained and cleaned.

No one is really surprised by this right. If you are, you must've been born yesterday, because you haven't been paying attention with these institutions. No one really believes BPis going to pay for this disaster do you! This payout clearly shows BP doesn't beleive it will pay the full freight for this disaster.

I sure hope my IRA has some BP in it.

I know it's got Supermax in it.

And screw Florida! I can always retire to Santa Barbara and watch their oil platforms in my old age….

pay out all the profits before bankruptcy
leave the little people holding the bag ~

Memo to shareholders*: BP regrets the loss of jobs and high quality, moderately-priced seafood because of its Gulf Of Mexico. BP could have done more during the rig's construction phase and pre-startup but that is costly. BP's bottom line is BIG profit at all costs. Bp tried dishonestly to get itself pre-absolved of this mess and has stalled as much as it can but it appears that BP may be forced to spend zillions of dollars to clean up its mess. Therefore BP has rounded up $10 billion and we're clearing it out of here as a dividend and paying it to you instead of being honest and saying that BP lost your money for you in an oil spill cleanup project. We'll dump as much of this as possible on the American taxpayer as we bugger off to somewhere else.

BP also understands the importance of getting this money back to you so that you can have your sea food flown in to you – fresh daily.

*BP is yet another corporate protector of the US Uber-wealthy

BP has us by the short hairs and they know it. If our government investigates and finds evidence of criminal activity, BP's lawyers will stall until after the next election, then proceed to buy a new government via political contributions.

The US Supreme Court has pre-approved this.

The rats getting what they can steal from BP while there's still something left to steal. BP should be seized by the government and all it's top execs jailed with no bail.

The U. S. Government, needs to stop all of BP's distribution of profits to their shareholders!!

I've noticed when corporations are making lots of money in the course of their crime, they never pay much. It's like the legal system itself, “We make tons of money off of your crime.” And when corporations are making tons of money off of their own crime, the legal profession respects that. BP is showing how much money it makes to the legal profession, and the legal profession (which includes Congress) will leave BP alone.

Obama is a big corporate pussy lapdog

I'm sorry. I don't care about the shareholders at the moment. You invest knowing that your investment could fail. In this case, investment in BP HAS failed, at least for now. And once again, those with the resources to invest will be made whole first, and those whose lives are destroyed because of corporate negligence are SOL.

Sadly, the SCOTUS has sold us all out. I'm still appalled by the recent ruling on Miranda Rights…………W T F ! !

Oktoss is very near to the truth. The big boys are not only getting away with it they rub our noses in it while they do it. Sux. We're doomed. Keep ur guns greased.

Isn't this double speak for paying BP executives, who typically own the largest shares in the company?

The british are coming and this time they are wearing black. BP's accets should be freezed and they should be kicked out of the country. The core of army engineers should seal the leak and an investigation should be done by a non government/non corperate team. Then if anyone is found to be criminally liable they should be prosecuted and sent to prison if found guilty by jury trial.

Confiscate it all.

Why the hell shouldn't BP pay its dividend? Many (if not most) of BP's shareholders are ordinary workers trying to build their retirement funds. Many more are already retired and depend on investment income for their living expenses. Many municipal and educational institutions depend on their investment income.

You're all acting like a bunch of uninformed, knee jerk extremists being manipulated by your liberal media outlets. You're all like the socialist version of the tea-baggers. Okay, maybe not that bad…

You do realize that BP is an ENGLISH corporation?

The interconnected international corporations that run the US and Israel, and are working on the rest of the world are going to go too far in there unrepentant, blatant criminality -and veyr soon, I think.

WRONG. It is an international corporation, as they ALL are these days. A huge number of Americans own their stock, and their boards of directors are of all nationalities,and sit on just about every other corporate board, voting themselves huge bonuses right and left.

Check out the blog Muckety: “Two CONNECTED to Fail”

http://news.muckety.com/2010/05/07/too-connecte…

Obama can Nationalizing all of BPs American holdings. The president of the USA has that power.

Has anybody heard if there has been a national survey of whether BP gas stations are being affected at all by Oil Gate?

It's kind of hard to blame a station owner, but then boycotting these stations would really give BP a major migraine headache.

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Seize their bank accounts to pay for the damage they have done and are continuing to do.

Have you ever thought how else will the board of directors and the executives get their cut of the profit in case BP sinks..

Their system has created a playing field where there is no safe haven, where neither the individual nor the collective have a safe haven from the confiscatory evils of inflation. So, we end up, individually, and collectively held hostage to the same corporate interests that also buy up our 'representation' in Congress.

It's gonna cost way more than 10 billion to clean up this epic fuck up. Hope you got plenty left over

If your mobile home rolled down the hill and through my house, I'd want to know that my restitution would come in first position to your NASCAR subscription.

Okay, maybe not that bad…

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The Austrian School of Economics is a fucking joke. Look around you, and tell me free markets work..duh! The Gold Standard is a horrible idea. Just look back into history and see. Adam Smith was a government slandering retard. Support the American Monetary Act. Goto http://www.monetary.org and check it out.

No paying dividends on time would clearly say they have cash flow problems already. That would initiate investors panic and sink it in a day.

They will have cash flow problems anyways, as more money needed for Florida now.

Give it 2-3 weeks, and they are toasted.

Nope. Seize the assets now.

There should come to be a point in government when the United States' allies [Israel] needs to confess of it's wrongdoings.
Israel thinks they are above the law, & as long as the U.S. allow them to be they will always stir havoc in the Middle East. Israel is the reason for this “Holy War;” they need to take responsibility, withdraw their domination from the Gaza & reach peace towards Palestine (with all the other enclaves -from nations-that live in Jerusalem).
Again, once Israel ceases their arrogant power in the Holy Land, the Muslims &(their freedom fighters/terrorists) just may be able to co-exist…. “PEACE NOT APPARTHEID.” Live and learn! Israel is not above the law!!!

BP appears to be mollifying its shareholders while BP still has the cash and in advance of what presumably will be a bankruptcy filing at some date certain. A bankcruptcy court would never let BP make these kinds of payments to shareholders so now is the time to shovel the money out the door. This isn't “unfathomable”. This is the way of capitalism. For U.S. Senators say that is is unfathomable is either disingenous or, even more alarmingly, reveals a basic mis-understanding of how the real world of capital actually works. Having said all this, the BP oil spill is for me every bit as painful as 9/11.

The real reason why they will liquidate these billions is because the major shareholders can't “afford to fail”, lol. Same old game, the rich will get richer off of our tax money that will be unlawfully used to clean this up. The sickening part is that it is the American SHEEPLE that allow their government to do this. We deserve this as long as we will put up with it. STOP complaining and DO something about it!

How much longer are we going to let these fascists/corporatists destroy our country???

Did I miss something? 3 months ago, Obama made it clear that he wanted more deep water drilling in the gulf. Now, because of this accident (a rather large accident), time to shut-up shop! Why for the first 3 weeks of this crisis did the government sit back, do nothing to help…all obama did was speak out about this accident. If this government would have bee proactive, right away, this accident could have been scaled by…big time! All think it is rather funny that BP is getting all the heat on this, when they didn't even opperate the rig.

Finally, Nationalizing…LOLOLOLOLOL…Any of you who think this is even a slight possibility, you are a moron!

The best way to stop the oil is by dropping politicians, propagandists, and big business types in the muck. They will sink and eventually stop the spill at minimal cost to the tax payer.

The chemical dispersant is as dangerous as the spill. Surfers reporting burning eyes and headaches in PensacolaFL.

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How can you tell when a BP representative is lying? When their lips are moving.

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