re: this has turned out to be a really lame oil spill.

The problem is some fisherman are hurting through no fault of their own and some people are being paid that shouldn't be paid. When dealing with ANYTHING on the scale of this there are always going to be people on both sides of the isle that can point to examples that fit their arguments.

It is simply impossible to have anything done on this scale perfectly.

That said those fisherman that aren't being paid by BP because they haven't been paying there taxes like they should each year... well, I sure don't feel sorry for them. I think it is called poetic justice.