members of congress. that s exactly right. and i also think, anderson, what you said, we have the mississippi gulf wildlife refuge. we ve really got to start looking at how to save the wetlands of louisiana. it s been an ongoing issue before this spill but the federal government has got to step up and protect america s wetlands. you can t just pay people for seasonal losses right now and the hospitality or fishing business. we ve got to permanently save our great mississippi river delta. but we couldn t really have that conversation. the government can act enough while the oil was still gushing out. it was nonsense cal. we ve got to have a larger national dialogue about saving america s wetlands.
frankly due to congressman markey and others on capitol hill because they never wanted to put out these live images and it was only after his insistence and others and after they continued to raise a stink, finally started live feeds to members of congress. that s exactly right. and i also think, anderson, what you said, we have the mississippi gulf wildlife refuge. we ve really got to start looking at how to save the wetlands of louisiana. it s been an ongoing issue before this spill but the federal government has got to step up and protect america s wetlands. you can t just pay people for seasonal losses right now and the hospitality or fishing business. we ve got to permanently save our great mississippi river delta. but we couldn t really have that conversation. the government contact enough while that oil was still gushing out.
you said, we have the mississippi gulf wildlife refuge. we ve really got to start looking at how to save the wetlands of louisiana. it s been an ongoing issue before this spill but the federal government has got to step up and protect america s wetlands. you can t just pay people for seasonal losses right now and the hospitality or fishing business. we ve got to permanently save our great mississippi river delta. but we couldn t really have that conversation. the government contact enough while that oil was still gushing out. it was not sensical. we ve got to have a larger national dialogue about saving america s wetlands. billy, we re going to have on shortly a scientist who doesn t believe that the berms are working, just so we get your perspective, you believe that they are effective and that they are doing a great job? absolutely. the ones that say that they are
earlier. fred krupp got up early, too. we talked about obviously from pensacola, and grew up along pensacola coast beaches and i think that when americans see oil wash up on those beaches, it s horrifying to them. but i talked to environmentalists and they say we ll figure out a way to get past that, to clean up the beaches, to clean up those ecosystems. talk about the devastation that s happening in the wetlands of louisiana, where there really, there s no solution, is there? you ve just got to maybe burn them. there s no solution to cleaning up the economic horror show created by bp in louisiana, is there? well, joe, actually i beg to differ on that one. good. last week, when i was down there, boating through the wetlands, it was an inspiration. not so much the oil slick. you re right, there s no solution to clean the oil off the grasses. some of that grass is going to die and it will release the soil