Toronto Sun | 31Jul2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/letters/2010/07/30/14876646.html
Lives of the super-rich
Re “Oil giant changes face” (July 26, 2010): Tony Hayward’s golden
corporate parachute is 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. A quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby about the aristocratic aloofness of the super-rich: “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.”
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta.
(You expected him out in
the Gulf scrubbing?)