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I agree.

Cleaning up after ourselves and preventing ourselves from re-polluting shouldn't cost too many people their jobs -- hell, it shouldn't cost anyone their job.

But it should cost taxpayers some money ... and it should cost corporate owners some of their obscene profits and without owners converting their employees into compensative sacrificial lambs.

After all, the profit motive caused owners and government leaders to turn a blind eye to the damage they knew they were doing, so it is those who were so blindly seduced who should pay the price.

Still, I can't help but feel sorry even for those more rightly responsible -- after all, the seductions of the Money System are nearly impossible to resist.

Nevertheless, someone has to foot the bill for cleaning up this mess, and taxpayers and corporate owners (along with politicians who should be impeached!) are the rightly guilty ones in this situation, and they should be the ones to pay appropriately, without one single job lost.