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In my lease I have certain obligations to perform. Meeting those obligations requires "work". If I fail to meet those obligations my landlord has recourse including the right to terminate the lease. My landlord does not pay me for my services, in that context I do not work for him, however I do pay him for his "services" as outlined in the lease or our contract. We have a bilateral contract. He "works" for me and I "work" for him.

In the context of an employer/employee relationship we do not "work" for each other. Employee/employer is only one type of business arrangement that can be terminated.

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Perhaps, I owe some an apology. I have been responding as if it was common knowledge that the contract between BP and the government could be terminated based on BP's reported failures in this matter. Was this a bad assumption? Do you think Obama knows he has the power to order the termination of the contract? Why hasn't he?

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