BIG GOVERNMENT: So Where Are Those BP Oil Spill Payments Going? Local Gov’ts Get Millions for iPads, Concerts, & Cars...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear – much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The oil giant opened its checkbook while the crisis was still unfolding last spring and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Gulf Coast communities with few strings attached. READ MORE...

NOTE- This disaster is the result of BIG GOVERNMENT! They are experts in mismanaging money. The oil spill itself AND the distribution of funds by BP and the U.S. government are all problems created by an incompetent government controlled by elitist, academic, reckless, ignorant politicians.

Having politicians receive these funds is worse than the dead people and prison inmates who received stimulus money!