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June 21st, 2010
10:00 AM ET
Fund overseer: BP must speed up payments
(CNN) – Shrimpers, oystermen and businesspeople all across the Gulf have their lives on hold as they wait for checks from BP for claims they've already filed. The oil giant says it has issued more than 32,000 checks already. Last week, BP agreed to a $20 billion escrow fund to compensate spill victims. Ken Feinberg is the man overseeing that fund and he joined us on Monday's American Morning to talk about the complications of paying out claims. Watch 
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Spot ON, Art! Red states for red necks! Keep right on voting for "smaller guvvermint", Billy Bo Bob! Keep that Socailist Interior Department and OSHA out of the Free Market-Doin' God's Work! Next time your coal mine caves in and kills your Daddy, you can whine about it to Mitch McConnell who you voted for and who cares more about the Company than you, Kentucky Gene Pool Refuse! The GOP is ALL about the Boardroom- if the rest of America drowns in oil and burns and goes down in flames, they do not care as long as their corporate constituents continue to make a profit on YOUR blood.
35,000 oil rigs in the, Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's most fertile fishing holes. Electing representatives to go to Washington who were for de-regulation of the energy industry. Did the fishing industry in the Gulf REALLY think everything was going to remain copascetic with this formula for disaster?
Let's take it a step further. There were five southern senators who had noooooo problem with GM and Chrysler going out of business. For some reason they felt it was in their best interests to let these companies, and their workers go into the abyss, even though they have 35,000 working oil rigs in the, Gulf.
I'm all for getting the Gulf of Mexico cleaned up, as quickly as possible. But I question the common sense of the voters in the Gulf region, and their entitlement issues.