JOHN YOUNG: “These communities deserve protection. They are part of our community. They are part of our country.”

It's just like a hostage crisis. We're on day 77, we've been hostage -- taken hostage by the oil, and we're also hostage to bureaucratic red tape.

These people would rather be working. But, since they have lost their jobs and their livelihood because of BP's negligence, they ought to be putting the money in their pockets, instead of putting it in a public relations campaign.

We would like to call upon the President to get involved. Exercise his executive authority and overturn that decision by the Corps.

The only thing the administration has done is make this worse.