Canada Free Press | 25Jul2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25778
Retiring
"BP chief negotiating
exit terms," AP online, 25 July 2010
Tony Hayward is being measured for a golden corporate parachute, worth
millions of British pounds. BP's outgoing CEO will get back what he's
been yearning for since last April 20, the fateful day BP's ecological
nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico began his privileged old life. One in
which yachting, among other pleasantries, will no doubt figure
prominently; without, I dare say, arousing any new controversy.
A quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby about the
aristocratic aloofness of the superrich springs to mind: "They were
careless people ... they smashed up things and creatures and then
retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness ... and let
other people clean up the mess they had made."
Sincerely,
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta