by Joseph Malek

Created on: August 01, 2010   Last Updated: August 04, 2010

For those of you who do not know, tens of thousands of people who earned a living by fishing on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are out of work because of the worst oil leak in recorded history. As a result, the management of British Petroleum decided to hire those or some of those unemployed people to assist in the clean-up effort.

Keep in mind that those clean-up jobs will not last forever and all the pollution caused by the leak will never by removed from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. You better believe that tens of thousands of tons of tar and a quantity of cancer causing chemicals will remain in the water and also on the seafloor.

You can also believe that some people who relied on the sea-life, as a means to earn a living, will seek some other type of employment. Then again, some people will never fully recover from the loss of their primary way in which to earn a living. Such jobs as being employed as an oil spill clean-up worker will not last forever. As soon as the oil slick is gone from the water those jobs will mostly come to an end.

For many years afterward tar will wash up on the shoreline of places around the Gulf of Mexico because of the currents, subsequent storms and other factors, like wind, that will bring the tar on shore. It is not known at this time if the sea-life within the Gulf of Mexico will even be safe for human consumption within the future.

If the management of British Petroleum would hire the estimated 14 million unemployed people within the United States of America that might restore the economy but that is not the case. In the long run more jobs will be lost because of the oil spill disaster than will be gained from the clean-up of the complete pollution of the water of the Gulf of Mexico.

Then again, it is not known just how many people will get cancer as a result of eating contaminated seafood that is subsequently caught from within the Gulf of Mexico. It is entirely possible that people will be hired to test the seafood before it is sold to the public. It is also not know if it will be safe for people to swim in the water while all of those chemicals remain active. Clearly, I have no desire to risk my health by swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.

Will tourists go to a place that can very well cause them to suffer and die at a latter date? Your guess is as good as mine, but there is no way on Earth that I will go swimming in the Gulf of Mexico any time soon.

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