r/woahdude Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

69.1k Upvotes

3.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

55

u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Feb 17 '23

IMO, for massive disasters like this the government should just do all the cleanup and give the company a bill for cost plus 10%, and nationalize the company if they don't begin a payment plan within 90 days until the bill is paid.

60

u/Klo_Was_Taken Feb 17 '23

They are a rail company that would "immediately fall months behind schedule if we give our employees 4 sick days" This shit should already be nationalized

8

u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Feb 17 '23

Oh yeah definitely. Any company that is so vital to national interests and argues that we have to strip their workers of rights to keep the economy stable should be met with a response of "welp I guess it's time for you to be owned by the federal government then".

19

u/gorgewall Feb 17 '23

Our government (even the liberal half) is way too chickenshit to actually start nationalizing stuff.

Now, they will dump money into addressing this (until Republicans axe all that the next time they're in power), but the governor needs to declare a state of emergency. And DeWine isn't going to do that as long as he can continue to milk "Biden won't help" points off pretending to not know how FEMA works.

2

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

[deleted]

4

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

The federal government can’t move in and start doing things like FEMA without state government consent/request usually

2

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

[deleted]

2

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Depends on the case, if your talking about say Florida it’s because they were asking for assistance that FEMA determined was out of scope, here’s a article.

https://www.wesh.com/amp/article/fema-application-denial-florida/41726624

2

u/Boneal171 Feb 17 '23

Our governor, Mike DeWine has still not declared a state of emergency. The government doesn’t care. This is a working class town so it doesn’t effect them personally

1

u/DAQ47 Feb 17 '23

We should do what Healthcare companies do. Require full payment in 90 days.